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.