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Outliners.com Message ID: 4795

Posted by sendgary
2005-12-21 15:20:38

Neville,

I’ve never given any thought to how this forum could be designed better. I just take it how it is. But your suggestions about better alternatives got me thinking. It is funny that a forum about what I think of as personal efficiency software should be so inefficient itself. It is not much more than an overgrown list.

I have visited this forum many times while posting hardly at all. I come here to learn about what software exists out there and which is the best stuff. But it isn’t easy. I find myself printing out long threads of posts and reading through them with a highlighter, looking for bits of information about the software. Sometimes I run a Google search on this website searching, for instance, for comparisons between two pieces of software. But the information is so profuse and scattered, I find myself reading to the bottom of my printouts, and then starting again at the top because I can’t get it straight on a once-through, or perhaps searching for more posts.

We need a Zoot-sorter for the forum posts, so that messages could be thrown into various bins. I would be so happy if there were a list running down one side of the web page, showing all the pieces of software—BrainStorm, Ultra Recall, etc.—with posts regarding each software all gathered together. Then if there were a wiki entry at the top of each bin where people could combine their efforts to provide a description and criticism of that piece of software, I would be doubly happy. And if, finally, there were separate bins for topics like “hoisting,” “categories in outliners,” and etc., I would skip three times across the room and take a holiday to read them all.

Gary

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