EccoPro: Why has nobody developed a clone so far?

Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Aug 31, 2007 at 06:42 PM

Yes, that’s all I mean, nesting as you say. These are actually, I admit, pretty minor embellishments or variants of Hoist or Focus. (Double hoist can be emulated by splitting windows, if the outliner allows it. (Actually, not many do.)

More interesting, perhaps, are combined operations, using collapse/expand; hoist; fold; and maybe hide as potential elements. One such combined operation that I think is particularly useful (it is actually the operating mode of BrainStorm) is to hoist and then collapse from the new second level. Combining the basic elements into patterns that are practically useful or part of a structured way of using the software - this may me more fruitful than inventing new filters.