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Posted by Simon Bolivar
Nov 21, 2013 at 05:43 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>I can highly recommend it. I’m sure it can be used for many different
>things. I use it as a matrix-form outliner.
>
>E.g. Currently I’m working on an outline in a Freeplane mind map, and I
>noticed that several branches ended up with information at their ends
>that was common to all of them, which suggested to me that this
>information could be better organised in a table.
>
>So I switched to TreeSheets, and by organising the same info in a 9 x 5
>table, I was able to develop the ideas further and discover new
>relationships. It is far easier and faster to do this kind of
>(brainstorming, idea-development) work in TreeSheets than in Word or
>Excel.
>
>I also like that cells can be nested within cells, so effectively you
>can organise your information into boxes within boxes within boxes etc.
Thanks for the suggestions for using treesheets
I use mempad as my plain text outliner, cintanotes now to store highly tagged paragraphs, and treesheets could be my tool to brainstorm ideas beyond just text.