Re: Slave of an outline

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Posted by ureadit
2005-08-17 22:34:38

In DOS days, I used GrandView for virtually everything. Of course, it was 1) The best DOS outliner and 2)had many other info management features.

I used GV to collect information and to write my reports, etc. However, I did not use its outlining features to create a structure for what I wrote… that I did in my head. I used its outlining features to easily rearrange material AFTER I wrote it. That is, I started writing in GV using the structure I had developed in my head, and then used the outlining features of GV to rearrangeh text as my writing progressed.

Inspiration is a Windows outliner, but is too “clunky” to use in the fashion I used GV. I don’t know about NoteMap.

By the way, when I was in school (pre-PCs) and was required to produce an outline for a piece of writing, I always wrote the outline AFTER I wrote the piece.

-sc

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