Re: Notemap 2.0

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Posted by srdiamond15
2006-02-14 01:28:46

I don’t think anyone is under the impression that NoteMap is a powerful outliner. My most basic objection remains that it is limited to nine levels. The absence of real body text is a distant second.

While someone using NoteMap for analysis—what I mainly look to an outliner for—won’t be overwhelmed by NoteMap, writers who look to an outliner as a fast way of organizing the headings of a long or even book-length document might have more reason to be excited. At least they might have a couple years ago, when NoteMap was last revised. One thing attractive for writers is the complete absence of bugs. (I distinguish here the sort of thing that causes a system error from a design defect.) Another must-have for some writers is a high degree of customizability of keyboard commands. NoteMap is very strong in this regard, although not as strong incidentally, as the outliner in Achieve Planner, which is totally customizable.

Stephen R. Diamond

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