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Posted by moritz
Dec 3, 2009 at 12:33 AM
Alexander: Forgot to mention that OneNote 2010 will be free using the server side (browser based) app via SkyDrive. if you have a SkyDrive account you can play with the other apps already, OneNote currently says “coming soon”. If you have the client app you could share a notebook with others who are using a browser (synchronized in real time, a bit like Google Wave)
>? 5 OneNote will also be ideal with the client side software; I’ll check whether
>anybody else has OneNote (I don’t use it, but I have it)
Posted by Edwin Yip
Dec 3, 2009 at 07:47 AM
Hi Alexander,
Yes, the current version of Word does not work well with long documents, the upcoming Word 2010 will have a Navigation pane (actually it’s the improved version of the current document map), and that will make working with long Word documents easier.
And your requirement proves an idea of mine for Writing Outliner (A Word addin, one of the features is to help you to outline, navigate and edit book-lengthy document in Word easier, like the navigation pane in Word 2010 but it works with old versions of Wrod), that’s convert by headings a long Word document to a Writing Outliner project.
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Edwin Yip
Writing Outliner - A new way to write in Microsoft Word?
http://WritingOutliner.com
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Dec 3, 2009 at 06:33 PM
Moritz: you’ve got me hooked; ‘free’ is not important for me but it sure is for people like some of my co-workers that have not tried such software and are used to getting functionalities free on the internet. I’ll try it out as soon as I get the chance.
Edwin: I’ve followed the Writing Outliner discussion and will definitely try it once it’s out. What these days’ exercise showed me is that there’s a multitude of excellent tools discussed here that can help one handle information located in several discrete files, but very few can manipulate the inforrmation located in a single large file. The few exeptions mentioned included AskSam which is unreliable and Zoot 6 which is not yet released.
I think that what I would have needed is a contemporary version of Doug Engelbart’s Hyperscope http://hyperscope.org/
Pierre-Paul, any chance that InfoQube could handle such smart break-down, de-compose / re-compose tasks?
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Dec 3, 2009 at 07:26 PM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Pierre-Paul, any chance that InfoQube could handle such smart break-down, de-compose / re-compose tasks?
Funny you asked… 2 days ago, I was adding a block tagging feature (select text then edit>>Enclose text with…). This was to add a featured requested by users, which is to be able to hide blocks of text when doing an HTML Export. Basically, blocks tagged with a some tags could be hidden to others.
As I was doing this, I thought that another use of this easy block tagging, was to be able to de-compose / re-compose items.
So the answer is yes, it can certainly be added. I’m busy completing the Calendar right now, but will look at it in my spare time.