On the Aesthetics of Outliners, Pims, and Personal Knowledge Applications

Posted by Manfred
Oct 24, 2009 at 06:42 PM

Lucas said: I would say that CT has a well-developed ?functional aesthetic.?

That’s very well put. I couldn’t agree more. I think that Brainstorm has this kind of asethetics as well.

I also tried Tex, and I had the same experience, as Chris Thompson: too much cognitive overhead. But I don’t find the same for ConnectedText. This may have to do with the fact that I don’t use many formatting features. Italics, bold, lists, and headings, and those formats are not easy to remember but also easy to apply, CTRL-I, CTRL, etc.

Manfred