Namesakes in Brainstorm

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Posted by pma
2005-09-22 05:33:58

Hi.

Lovely that outliners.com is up and running again! It’s like a cozy corner in a crazy world.

I have problems seeing the wonders of namesakes in Brainstorm. I just don’t get the point. If I make a new entry with the same name as an already existing entry somewhere else in the model, it will replicate the items included in the first entry.

Say, I already have a topic in the literature review part of my model, and then I create a topic with the same name in the discussion part, where I want to discuss the topic in the light of results from my study. However, when I “open” the newly created topic under the discussion, the items from the literature review pop up. If I started writing new items, it would all get messed up. This doesn’t exactly support my thinking process. So I just disable the namesake by clicking the namesake icon.

I try to think about situations, where you want this behaviour, where namesakes will actually support your work. Can you help me? There must be some wisdom that I haven’t been able to grasp. I would find it more logical if BS somehow just showed a link to the other namesakes, when it discovered them, but there must be a reason that it has been implemented this way. Do any of you use those namesakes?

Peter.

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