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Posted by Dave Ewins
Mar 3, 2014 at 06:56 AM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
I can only compare it
>with Brainstorm. In this context, SENSE has much more powerful
>overview/navigation but not clones.
I’m not familiar with Brainstorm so I’m not sure with regard to the context in which cloning occurs: however, cloning is supported within Sense Professional’s ViewPoints.
and Dr Andus wrote:
For example, could I paste in/import e.g. a 10k word plain text (or RTF) and then gradually add >headings of unlimited hierarchy (i.e. not just the usual 6 of >HTML or 9 of MS Word), all the way down to every single paragraph, should it be necessary?
Once the unlimited headed hierarchy has been created, headings or more generallly lines may be drag / dropped from the main document into the ViewPoints Pane as “viewpoints” for (out of main document context) subject categorization, review and editing.
Cloning allows repeated viewpointing of material irrespective of overlap: for example, a headed hierarchy may be viewpointed at different levels.
Viewpointed material may be edited with changes resynchronized across all cloned instances and back to the main document on focus change or via toolbar synchronise selection.
Posted by Dr Andus
Mar 3, 2014 at 10:11 AM
Dave Ewins wrote:
>Once the unlimited headed hierarchy has been created, headings or more
>generallly lines may be drag / dropped from the main document into the
>ViewPoints Pane as “viewpoints” for (out of main document context)
>subject categorization, review and editing.
>
>Cloning allows repeated viewpointing of material irrespective of
>overlap: for example, a headed hierarchy may be viewpointed at different
>levels.
>
>Viewpointed material may be edited with changes resynchronized across
>all cloned instances and back to the main document on focus change or
>via toolbar synchronise selection.
Dave, thanks for your explanations. Would you mind also explaining what the basic principle of the ViewPoints feature is? It sounds interesting.
Posted by Dave Ewins
Mar 3, 2014 at 12:02 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>Dave, thanks for your explanations. Would you mind also explaining what
>the basic principle of the ViewPoints feature is? It sounds interesting.
ViewPoints was developed to enable dispersed information to be referenced from main document context into groupings under one or more (common topic / subject specific) categorized nodes within the ViewPoints tree structure.
Documentation from external Sense Documents may be Viewpointed as well.
Categorization nodes within ViewPoints may be hierarchically arranged as necessary.
ViewPointed material irrespective of source (Sense) document may be edited, printed and exported to new documents.
Edited material is saved back to source documentation at the appropriate time.
Material may be selectively shown and hidden from view via Category and ViewPoint node collapse and expand.
Printing and Export is based on the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) principle.
At a more basic level, ViewPoints may be used to reduce document navigation requirements when editing / referencing different regions of a larger document.
Hope this helps.
Posted by wayzen
Mar 3, 2014 at 01:15 PM
The more I am reading here about SENSE the more intrigued, and yet the more confused, I become. As I shall be commencing upon some large scale reseach and writing Projects in the coming months, I am keeping my eyes pealed for any software which might aid in that endeavour. And thanks to Dr. Andus’ heads-up about the current discount offer, it looks like the only way I shall get to know this program, is by buying it!; (unforntately, the discount might seemingly be on offer only in the UK, because it does not appear on my web-viewing; however, the Code seems to be accepted, in spite of the different currency, so I shall just have to dive in - I have not the time to learn the program at the moment, nor for a while yet, so I will just have to place my trust in the good words).
Oh, and BTW, I introduced myself a couple of weeks ago, back here http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/4055/0/ideamason-down-for-the-count, but the post didn’t show up, and I since then got confused about my own user name (not cool, definately Not Cool). But as I have now re-referred to IdeaMason, and Dr. Andus was enquiring about unlimited levels of heirarchical headings, maybe IdeaMason might be worth a peek. Its ‘Composition’ section is primarily a Single-pane Outliner on the left-hand side (working at the heading level - with ‘Materials’ (i.e., actual texts) being denoted as item/headings), whilst the right hand panel displays the contents of these Headings and Items (again, in a single-pane). It also allows for all sorts of commenting procedures (within the Outline panel), which can be exported - along with the complete Outline - to MS Word; or you can chose not to export your comments. In the above mentioned post, I pointed toward a set of Videos regarding IdeaMason, and the presenter of these shows some of that which I have been trying to explain. The presenter even works at the ‘paragraph’ level, though she gets there at merely the third or fourth tier.
Posted by Dave Ewins
Mar 3, 2014 at 03:16 PM
wayzen wrote:
>(unforntately, the discount might seemingly be on offer only in the UK,
The voucher is available from http://www.silvaelm.news.shtml and is used to claim the 30% discount at the e-commerce site - it’s not UK specific..
I would recommend you make use of the free 30 days trial (full Sense Professional capability) first.
Any problems, then contact Silva Elm for help.