Re: Absent Hoisting or a Deeper Problem; A Question about Idea!

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Posted by sub
2005-12-11 04:44:09

[Stephen Diamond] It seems to me there’s no way around clutter ultimately other than planning.

[Steve Zeoli] Stephen, I’m sure that you are correct; however, some programs provide more flexibility for how you manage your information, which, it seems to me, provides for a greater sense of harmony with that information. I suspect that how effective each program is for any one user depends upon how much that user feels in control of his or her information.

Control is one thing, overview is another; I have the impression that many programs provide control, but the reason I personally stay with navigation-tree-based programs is the feeling of overview of the available information. So, for example, Zoot and MDE Infohandler are not for me, even though they definitely seem to provide very good control and access to the available information.

I especially find “traditional” relational database systems such as Access lacking in this kind of overview; and by overview I refer to some kind of hierarchy, structure and relationship between my data, some “greater picture” one can see as they zoom out from the lower level. I.e. a browsing list does not provide overview, an outline tree or a mind map does.

In that sense, even my beloved Brainstorm is rather handicapped, and I often find myself copy/pasting a Brainstorm model to Freemind or MindManager to better grasp the whole picture.

alx

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