Re: Going 3-dimensional

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Posted by sub
2006-01-17 05:22:04

> you can shoot your structured blocks of text into the built-in wordprocessor, where you can actually see your work as a full, holistic document, edit them and then re-import them back into blocks, should you want to

Interestingly, you can also import an externally created continuous document into blocks; I find this a very powerful concept for restructuring and updating older publications as well as re-use existing material.

I do this all the time with Brainstorm; however, I find that Writer’s Blocks offers an edge over Brainstorm, due to it’s 2-dimensional “board” paradigm for laying out the blocks.

That said, I personally don’t think that I would trade Brainstorm for Writer’s Blocks for writing because I prefer the unburdened plain text workspace.

However, for a large number of concurrent small project notes, I find I very much prefer the spreadsheet / board type of overview offered by Notebox Disorganizer / Writer’s Blocks respectively.

Interestingly, my business partner has himself ended up employing a spreadsheet type of organisation, where cells contain tasks, rows represent projects and columns represent priorities.

I am currently working on refining this with Excel / Notebox Disorganizer; ideally, I’d like to be able to “focus” into the information related to each task.

alx

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