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Outliners.com Message ID: 4699

Posted by ureadit
2005-12-11 15:47:14

How did we ever get along without all of this marvelous PIM/Outlining/Info Storage/... software?

Why, way back when I was in high school and college, I always wrote without first having a physical or digital outline or overview. It was all in my head. If an outline were required, it came after I had finished the writing the prose.

Yes, it is far too easy to dump info into a PIM and end up with an unbelievable amount of junk that becomes so overwhelming that one doesn’t use any of it. Pruning is often too time-consuming to be useful. The automated features of Zoot, Agenda, GV, and ??? help with this because you can set up rules that automatically assign key words, concepts, etc. to your information items. Plus, the ability to add new rules and have them automatically apply to old info items is a necessity. Programs that require manual assignment for each info item require too much time.

Of course software for writing can be a marvelous time saver. Moving things around digitally rather than with scissors, paste, etc. is wonderful.

-sc

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