Links connecting items being some kind of items themselves

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Posted by quant
Jul 24, 2010 at 09:05 PM

For example in UR, when you connect in one item to the other, you cannot describe the connection itself if any way
In TheBrain, one can at least give a name to the link (link type) connection the items

Here’s the question:

Is there a PIM where link itself is some type of an item in which you can write (html/rft) ?

Posted by Cassius
Jul 25, 2010 at 06:43 AM

quant wrote:
>For example in UR, when you connect in one item to the other, you cannot describe the
>connection itself if any way
>In TheBrain, one can at least give a name to the link (link type) connection the items
> >Here’s the question: Is there a PIM where link itself is some type of an item in which you can write (html/rft) ?
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In Inspiration one can add text to a link in a “text box.” AS I have never done it, I don’t know what limits may apply. (See http://www.inspiration.com .)

-c

Posted by JJSlote
Jul 25, 2010 at 09:36 AM

quant wrote:
>Is there a PIM where link itself is some type of an item in which you can write (html/rft) ?

Great question. Links should be capable of being multi-tagged and filtered just like other items. For example, if you were working on a database of the American Songbook, with link types, you could filter the display to show only who collaborated with whom: songwriters, lyricists, producers. Instead of a free-form or delimited field for someone’s place of residence, you’d connect that city by a defined link, and be able to see who else lives there. So you’d have more of the benefits of a relational database, without the design rigidity.

Jerome S.

Posted by Chris Thompson
Jul 27, 2010 at 03:33 PM

NEO, the new version of TAO, allows exactly this. Links can be typed, bidirectional, unidirectional, or undirected, and you can assign an arbitrary amount of RTF text to describe each link.

http://d-lit.com/macosx/neo2/en/html_about.html

—Chris

quant wrote:
>Here’s the question:
> >Is there a PIM where link itself
>is some type of an item in which you can write (html/rft) ?

Posted by quant
Jul 27, 2010 at 05:31 PM

Thanks, I’ll check it.

The best PIM I found so far in this respect is FlyingLogic, but the links alow only plain text and when the structure gets bigger it’s messy, there is no way to change the layout. For example, when I click on certain item, I’d like to see the items linked to it, but if the structure is big one can see only links, zooming out doesn’t really help, there is no way to restrict to view to see only the “closest items” :(

Chris Thompson wrote:
>NEO, the new version of TAO, allows exactly this. Links can be typed, bidirectional,
>unidirectional, or undirected, and you can assign an arbitrary amount of RTF text to
>describe each link.
> >http://d-lit.com/macosx/neo2/en/html_about.html
> >—
>Chris
> >quant wrote:
>>Here’s the question:
>>
>>Is there a PIM where link itself
>>is
>some type of an item in which you can write (html/rft) ?

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