Re: Journaling software with a timeline...

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Posted by srdiamond15
2005-04-05 01:59:08

>It seems to me that what these tree-based PIMS need is a function that allows you to create a quickly accessible hoist to any topic in the tree… setting it up so these hoists are tabs perhaps. That way you can keep all your information in one file, but with the same effect as separate files… i.e. clicking the hoist tab shows you just the topic with its subtopics you are interested in. - Steve Z.

You probably should try ADM then. It allows you to set up semi-permanent hoists as “views.” I think the problem with this approach is that it assumes you will remember where a given few falls in the master outline without looking at the outline as a whole—since if it were easy to grasp the outline as a whole, you wouldn’t need the views.

The alternative approach is to substitute multiple cross-referenced outlines for a single deep outline. This is the approach of Idea! and of InfoHandler. UltraRecall can be adapted to that approach. On UR I think I take the inverse attitude to Alex’s. I think it is a solid program, but it comes with no guidance as to best methods, whether articulated or implicit in its design. In other words, you can set up multiple outlines in UR as per the best facet analysis of the German companies, there are no obstacles, but nothing is the program is particularly to facilitate that. But there’s nothing to stop a person from studying InfoHandler to figure out how to do a facet analysis and then applying that understanding in UR. Or there is nothing to stop you from setting up separate category lists and topics lists as in Idea! using UR, but since Idea! consciously implements that approach, it’s a little easier in Idea!

Stephen Diamond

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