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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 5, 2011 at 07:48 PM
BG welcome!
I am surprised that for developing training material you don’t use specialised software developed for this purpose. I understand that we are talking regular training rather than e-courses but still. I am not particularly acquainted with such tools, but stuff that I remember being discussed here in the past includes Scenari http://scenari-platform.org/ and InfoHesiveEP http://www.2brightsparks.com/
Other than that, have you tried using a mindmap program as the main tool for developing the content, and publishing via export to Word or Powerpoint at any time, as you suggest? At least some mindmappers programs provide quite powerful (and well formatted) export capabilities.
bgoutliner wrote:
> For me, the ideal outliner tool would allow me to work through the entire training development process (analysis, design, development, implementation…) and allow me to publish documents at any point in the process. For example, generate a ?Design Document? in the design phase or ?Lab Book? in the development phase.
Posted by DaXiong
Aug 5, 2011 at 11:57 PM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>BG welcome!
>
>I am surprised that for developing training material you don’t use
>specialised software developed for this purpose. I understand that we are talking
>regular training rather than e-courses but still. I am not particularly acquainted
>with such tools, but stuff that I remember being discussed here in the past includes
>Scenari http://scenari-platform.org/ and InfoHesiveEP
>http://www.2brightsparks.com/
>
>Other than that, have you tried using a mindmap
>program as the main tool for developing the content, and publishing via export to Word
>or Powerpoint at any time, as you suggest? At least some mindmappers programs provide
>quite powerful (and well formatted) export capabilities.
>
I’ll second what Alexander said. Back in my training days, I found Inspiration essential. I wouldn’t use the mind-mapping part, just the outliner. It exports to Word, and worked well for what I was doing.
For all who took the time to reply - thank you! I see some managed to make their first post, many commented on software I’d long since forgotten about, and one even mentioned a text editor (same as me). The answers gave me the inspiration I needed, hopefully everyone reading found something as well ...
Posted by quant
Aug 6, 2011 at 08:46 AM
Cassius wrote:
>quant wrote:
>>Ultra Recall - by far the most complete and versatile PIM there is, IMHO
>:) , used 24/7 at
>>work/home to store every important information I come across so
>that I can
>>concentrate on thinking and undertanding instead of remembering -> for
>that UR is
>>perfect.
>——————————————————————-
>I tried
>UR, but found its ability to capture Web pages to rather pathetic. Has it improved to,
>say, the level of myBase+WebCollect or Surfulater?
I don’t know because I don’t use anything else than UR, so I can’t compare. I use UR+Scrapbook (FF extension) in a 2 step process when I want parts of the web or to remove ads etc, and it works perfectly for me (but I should say I only grab say 2 webs per day on average only).
Posted by Wojciech
Aug 6, 2011 at 09:37 AM
>I use UR+Scrapbook (FF extension) in a 2 step process when I want parts of the web or to remove ads etc, and it works perfectly for me
Could you please say a few more words about it? I am still playing with UR but usually it takes me too much time to work efficiently.
Thanks and best regards,
W.
Posted by quant
Aug 10, 2011 at 09:43 PM
when I want to grab part of the website, I select it, right-click, save selection. Scrapbook will save it and give me an option to edit it, at which time I usually remove adds etc, there is an easy way to do it in Scrapbook. And then I click on the UR store/link button and it’s saved in UR.
Wojciech wrote:
>
>>I use UR+Scrapbook (FF extension) in a 2 step process when I want parts of the web or to
>remove ads etc, and it works perfectly for me
>
>Could you please say a few more words
>about it? I am still playing with UR but usually it takes me too much time to work
>efficiently.
>
>Thanks and best regards,
>
>W.