Robert Caro's outliner

Posted by Dr Andus
Apr 15, 2012 at 01:32 PM

But otherwise Caro’s system reminds me of ConnectedText. There are individual notes, there are filing cabinets with the notes, there are notebooks that contain the index, there is an edit mode (the handwritten paper), a view mode (the typewritten paper), and a Navigator (his corkboard). The main difference is that he’s got a massive “monitor” that also allows him to display several notes simultaneously, which CT can’t do. So if CT had another visualisation mode where it could display several notes (“topics”) side by side, where they could be freely shuffled around, and if this mode (window) could be projected onto a wall or displayed in an electronic whiteboard, CT would be an electronic version of Caro’s system.