Re: The praise of BrainStorm

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Outliners.com Message ID: 4306

Posted by pma
2005-10-12 05:56:47

Alexander,

This was very useful for me - I knew the throw command, but I hadn’t really figured out the difference it makes in working on your model. This explains the problem I have when trying to find my way back and forth between the place I cut from and the place I paste to. If I use throw instead, I just mark the destination and can wander around in the model hunting for contents for that destination, without having to worry about finding where it should go. It goes there automatically. The throw command itself might be the thing that distinquishes working with BS and working with outliners. I’ll try it out immediately.

Interesting how this relates to the previous discussion regarding using Zoot for note management. What is achieved thoough the articleorganizer methodology is quite similar to what you do by throwing in BS. However, in Zoot it will be done instantaneously, dynamically, while entering and assigning themes to new notes.

Just thinking about a combination of BS and Zoot articleorganizer: What if you had the possibility of assigning “themes” in BS? Meaning that all entries in BS could work as a kind of virtual folders? So you could mark an entry as a theme container (as a virtual folder), and then you could apply themes from a list (to which new themes could be entered on the run) to individual entries. Wouldn’t that be just great?

Peter.

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