Mind versus tree navigation; html versus rtf editing

Posted by Graham Rhind
Mar 19, 2007 at 11:01 AM

Connected Text’s mixture of graphical and tree-based navigation is exactly what I’d like to see more tools have. But its editor is, to me, very backward and labour intensive, requiring all sorts of tags and reminding me of the word processor I was using in 1985. When I saw that, I uninstalled it in a hurry ...

Graham

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>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.