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Posted by Dr Andus
Dec 21, 2012 at 03:57 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
Cassius wrote:
>I know it has been said that the Bonsai screen shots don’t do it
>>justice, BUT they surely turn me off.
>
>The Bonsai interface is fairly customisable. You can make it look like a
>basic single-pane outliner. Here is a screenshot of my setup. Please
>note that colouring in the font and the background is optional (i.e.
>those are my choices). You can have it in black and white, if you
>prefer.
http://drandus.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/natara_bonsai.png
BTW, you can save your preferred background colour scheme under View > Global Settings > Fonts (setting slightly different colours for “Bkg Color 1” and “Bkg Color 2” will produce the striped effect), and you can save the the preferred outline level text colour under View > New Outline Defaults > Colors.
Having the outline level colours saved as default is particularly helpful when you need to dump a flat list into Bonsai and make sense of it quickly by organising it into groups and hierarchies (like you would with BrainStorm or Maxthink). As soon as you start indenting items (hit Tab), they change colour according to the presets.
I use this process as part of my analytical workflow. E.g. after ending up with a long flat list of observations and conclusions (having annotated a reading in ConnectedText), I just copy and paste the resulting list into Bonsai and organise the disparate observations into a meaningful outline. This way I can start seeing patterns and groups of observations and draw some final conclusions more easily. Then I link to this Bonsai file from the given CT topic.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Dec 21, 2012 at 05:17 PM
Interesting - I didn’t realise Sense supported OPML (through a plugin). Closer look required… no! no!...
C-C-C-RRRRRRIIIIIIMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMPPPPing!
Posted by Dave Ewins
Jan 5, 2013 at 01:25 PM
It would be good to have an idea of your “unrealist expectations”!
Daly de Gagne wrote:
Thanks to Alexander for mentioning Sense, and to Franz for providing the
>url.
>
>I have downloaded Sense, and in a few minutes only (rush to judgment
>coming!) I re-experienced what it was like to work with MORE. My hope is
>that this early exuberance won’t be betrayed.
>
>If Sense lives up to my unrealistic expectations, together with
>Noteliner, it could be possible for me to say that single pane outlining
>(in each case with a navigation pane which provides for either single or
>2 pane outlining) is more alive and well in the Windows world than I
>had realized.
>
>Daly
>
>Franz Grieser wrote:
>Daly.
>>
>>You find Sense (no pun intended) here: http://www.silvaelm.co.uk/
>>
>>Franz