Re: Namesakes in Brainstorm

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Outliners.com Message ID: 4206

Posted by jackcrawford
2005-09-22 23:20:52

Here’s an example from the Brainstorm team.

“Advanced outliners have clones, BrainStorm has ënamesakes’. BrainStorm senses when an identical entry has been made and links it automatically to the pre-existing entry, inheriting all its sub-levels, unless you elect to turn it off. Thus, you could have a person’s name, with all their details at lower levels. As soon as you use this person’s name in any other context, all the existing information is at your fingertips. If you want it. The left and right arrow keys move you from one namesake to another….

Here’s just one example of the usefulness of namesakes: when Marck and David work on BrainStorm development, they send their progress reports to each other as BrainStorm models. Typically, they put their initials and a date above each update. Because these entries are all connected as namesakes, skipping through the latest updates is fast and simple.”

I don’t make much use of them myself. I suspect it is because I create new models for each topic. If I had one big database model, namesakes would probably be more important for me.

Jack

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