Apologies to @Alexander Deliyannis and others.
In my last post above, I abbreviated:
- "InfoSelect version 8" to "IS8" and
- "Clipboard Help & Spell" to "CHS".

(I would have gone back and edited the post after making it, but it seems that you can't do that on the system for this forum.)

No problem, I should have guessed it based on your non-abbreviated references in the same phrase. I was just confused by your reference to wikis and the parentheses; I wondered whether the abbreviations referred to some wikis I had never heard about --goodness knows there are hundreds of them out there...

I would expect Onenote to do this (and Curio on the Mac), however I don't see in Onenote 2007 the option to move a page with the mouse --i.e. turning the cursor into a hand icon- only with the scroll bars at the bottom and right.

Other than this, Onenote does provide a very big, though not infinite, corkboard: view it in 200% for detail and at 25% for overview. It is also printable, which may come in handy.

Dr Andus wrote:

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Dr Andus wrote:
>>Basically instead of physically
moving
>>your body in front of your
>cork board, you are moving the cork board
horizontally and
>>vertically across your
>screen, using a mouse.
>>I don't know
if there is any software
>>that can do that.
>
>
>Check out Spaaze
http://www.spaaze.com/

Thanks! Yes, that's exactly the navigational metaphor I
had in mind. But it would be nice if this came as standard on my favourite writing and
outlining applications, rather than a separate service in a browser...

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:

I would expect Onenote to do this (and Curio on the Mac), however I don't see in Onenote
2007 the option to move a page with the mouse --i.e. turning the cursor into a hand icon-
only with the scroll bars at the bottom and right.

Other than this, Onenote does
provide a very big, though not infinite, corkboard: view it in 200% for detail and at
25% for overview. It is also printable, which may come in handy.

Thanks for mentioning that. I took a cursory glance at Onenote a couple of times but I never realised it had that feature. That is actually quite interesting.

Microsoft's modest and free Stickysorter is another tool that can provide this kind of virtual corkboard. I used it recently for group brainstorming sessions and it came in quite handy.

Stickysorter, mentioned here in the past, is a product of Microsoft Labs and it's a bit rough around the edges; e.g., organising notes around a large space means constantly switching from 'select' to 'pan'. That said, it is quite intuitive (especially for the audience), it's free --so everyone can install it and be given access to the session results- and it saves its data in .CSV format.

It is no longer available from the original Microsoft Labs location, but you can find it in many libraries, e.g. http://www.downloadcrew.com/article/23100-stickysorter