CRPA1.8 beta testing

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 28, 2011 at 12:25 PM

TonyJ wrote:
>that’s not a problem with CRPA because you have a list nearby with all the nodes. For PB
>it’s an issue because if you only navigate with a visualization that occupies a
>virtual space much larger than your screen you don’t really know what’s there and what
>isn’t. Creating a sheet, a sort of new level, and then deciding what goes there
>individually makes a lot more intuitive sense now that I’ve seen your demos. Perhaps a
>little more time consuming and that could be a problem if someone had a project with
>thousands of notes, but I like it.

I think that CRPA’s core concept is good common sense: collecting is one activity, organising is another. Interestingly, I haven’t found many applications that support me in this approach (Brainstorm is by far my preferred). Perhaps, as Oscar Wilde apparently pointed out, common sense is anything but common.

My own suggestion for CRPA concerns Tony’s last sentence above. Indeed, I would like to be able to do some kind of ‘pre-organisation’ of notes, via folders or tags. When working on a complex topic, or several interlinked topics, this would be quite useful.