Mind versus tree navigation; html versus rtf editing

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Mar 18, 2007 at 10:48 PM

One navigational approach has been overlooked in this discussion: Wikis. And, in particular, Connected Text, which may be unique in the number of navigational schemes it uses. First, of course, is the Wiki linking, which makes every item a parent to all the items linked to it. Then, the developer has installed the graphical navigator, which seems to operate similarly to Personal Brain—though, not with as much nimbleness. Finally, Connected Text has a topics panel, which is basically an index of topics (or items). This topics panel acts very similarly to the hierarchical tree of most two-panel outliners, except that each topic is listed at top level with all the topics it is linked to listed as sub topics. Very ingenious, I think.

Steve Z.