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

< Next Message | Back to archived message list | Previous Message >

Note: This message is from the outliners.com archive kindly provided by Dave Winer.

Outliners.com Message ID: 4449

Posted by sub
2005-10-27 16:58:35

[Jack] > For instance, if I were writing a business plan, I would want to use some headings that are expected by the readers - customer markets, SWOT analysis, competitors, financials and so on.

In fact, there’s nothing to stop one from replicating a standard structure, along with colour-coded levels from one model to another. However, there’s not much to help them do it either, i.e. a feature to label entries as Categories or Topics, so that they can be copied without their content.

In the past, Graham had suggested using an external application to maintain a standard hierarchy of topics that could be copied across several complementary programs. (For example, I often want to replicate my topic hierarchy from IDEA! to Brainstorm or vice versa, but this can’t be done at present.)

That said, it is clear that currently Brainstorm doesn’t provide a way to easily reorganise information across multiple levels, as would be ideal when the structure is already known. I think that the “editable/interactive Aerial View” concept is probably the single WIBNI feature that would make the most difference re this kind of operation.

alx

Back to archived message list