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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jan 24, 2007 at 11:54 PM
Daly,
When I think of meta data, what I think of is information that can be attached to foundational information. In a single-pane outliner, the foundational information would be the node itself. In a two-pane, or three-pane outliner, the foundational information would be the data stored in the editor window. The meta data in each case would be additional information associated with this foundational information to help organize and analyze the outline’s contents.
GrandView did this beautifully, allowing you to create custome tags for an outline. So you could build a to do list for a project where each node would be a milestone or task, and you could create categories for priority, due date, assigned to, etc… Then, in a separate categories screen, it would show you a list of all the various entries for any one category. That is, you could select the priority category and see of list of all the prioritizations you used. For example, select “high” and it would show you all the items you categorized as high priority. Or in the due date category, you could view all the items due on a certain date. Essentially GV allowed you to “hoist” your information by category—this is probably a lot like InfoHandler, come to think of it. You can achieve a similar result with Zoot.
Now, the meta data columns available in a program like MyInfo are not nearly as useful, even though they can be helpful.
Steve Z.