Re: New Graphical Outliner--"Personal Memory Manager"

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Posted by sub
2006-01-17 17:28:34

> The third aspect, of course, is how you bring the two realms together to create something valuable and unique… this is the creativity, I suppose. Is a third set of tools necessary for this activity? Probably.

If the combination one is trying to create can be adequately managed by any of the two previous categories of tools, then that’s OK; so, for example, I personally find that Brainstorm is more than adequate for merging/combining imported textual information with original notes and organising/editing the result.

On the other hand, tools like DTP or web design software excel in combining information from external sources, i.e. word processors, image banks etc. One will rarely start writing web page text content within a web design program like FrontPage or DreamWeaver.

However, these most effective combining tools are strictly design-oriented and offer little in the way of rapidly and abstractly “playing around” with one’s information and notes, much in the way one would do with a scrap book, drawing board or whatever.

For example, I’d like to be able to simply drag-n-drop UltraRecall items, Brainstorm entries, thumbnail images from a folder and parts of a large spreadsheet on a virtual drawing board / sketch pad much like PMM’s to play around with, while maintaing links to the original files.

I have the impression that OneNote may be headed for this kind of straightforward drag-n-drop functionality, but I’m less sure about the drawing board paradigm.

I think that’s the reason I liked Notebox Disorganizer’s concept, especially combined with a kind of links to external files.

alx

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