Same here for the use of namesakes. In my MBA class notes I had 'fields' like etc. and I could very quickly scan back and forth the various material in sequence. I even put all such 'fields' under the home entry, so I could go from there to wherever.

The 'permanent hoist' view is the essence of Brainstorm. If you don't like it, then there's no need to use Brainstorm. Another tool that forces you to focus in a similar way (also coming from DOS by the way) is Maxthink.

As for getting an overview of everything, the 'balloon view' is a simple way to do it, but what I usually do is write everything to the clipboard in tab-indented text (Ctrl+W) and paste to a mindmapping program or to TreeSheets.

Let us render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's. No tool is good at everything.

tradercclee wrote:

Gary Carson wrote:

>Permanent hoist view crippled an otherwise useful program, if
you ask me.
>Hoisting is a good way to focus in on one level of an outline, but what if you
need to refer
>back to some other part of the outline?

This is where I use the
namesake feature the most.
I create namesakes like wiki-links, like this:
[[idea]]
I use it to refer to other part of the outline and jump around quickly.