Re: Should Brainstorm be part of a multi-faceted outliner

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Outliners.com Message ID: 4433

Posted by pma
2005-10-27 04:15:16

Steve,
I’m still trialing BS, but I’ve been invited to join the beta group upon registration. You’re of course welcome to quote my message to the group.

I hadn’t grasped that MT was actually available in a Windows version, so I was happily surprised - I thought it was one of those ancient DOS gems - to realise that the program was ported to Windows, and is still being supported. BTW, I love the homepage!

I just downloaded it last night, and I tried to find my way through it. It’s not easy at all. First thing I tried to figure out was to make the bins work. I simply tried to replicate the scenario, I posted here earlier. But I can’t find out how to mark entries as bins, and I can’t find out how to move other entries to those bins by a keystroke. I guess it has something to do with F5 (mark), but how?

Furthermore, I don’t understand what happens when I try to mark several entries. It only marks 2 entries (by making a blue tick mark), when I try to mark the third, all the marks are cleared.

Steve, have you figured out how to make this work?

I tried to copy snippets of text from MT to this place, but I couldn’t get it to work! Did I miss something here?

It’s somehow a paradox that the developer of a program that is made for boosting the writing process hasn’t been able to produce proper documentation for the program. It is the opposite problem of Literary Machine, which is - IMHO - over-documented. The prose in the help text just goes on and on and on…

Peter.

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