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Posted by CRC
Oct 9, 2012 at 01:47 PM
Dr. Andus:
The king of this type of analysis is ECCO (was Agenda but that is long ago - although it still runs). ECCO still has a fairly active following and a gentlemen named Slangmesh has built software around ECCO that provides significantly enhanced functionality. There are places where ECCO is still available and with the other tools would serve you very well.
Charles
Posted by CRC
Oct 9, 2012 at 01:59 PM
Sorry - spelled the gentleman’s name wrong. It is “slangmgh”. Also the material can be found on the ECCO Pro Yahoo group.
Charles
Posted by Ken
Oct 9, 2012 at 03:11 PM
CRC wrote:
> The king of this type of analysis is ECCO
This was my first thought as well. Given that Ecco was initially designed in 1993, I sometimes feel that we have given up some ground in software development as we have progressed in other areas. Some of the features that I took for granted in Ecco are nowhere to be found in many modern day programs. Good legacy software is so hard to leave behind. Good luck with your analysis.
—Ken
Posted by CRC
Oct 9, 2012 at 03:25 PM
Ken wrote:
> Good legacy software is so hard to leave behind.
Agreed, but, aside from the rather dated interface (which you can customize to some extent), slangmgh has done an incredible job of continuing to enhance the function and provide a modern level of capability. Doubly remarkable in that it was done without any way to change the the product itself.
Charles
Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 10, 2012 at 09:46 AM
Thank you for all the suggestions. ECCO does sound intriguing, I’ll check it out at one point. As I had to move quickly, I’ve decided to use Natara Bonsai in the end.
It turned out to be very easy to assign categories and keywords to a large list of items, and the key is that these get preserved when you copy and paste them elsewhere in the outline, allowing for rearrangement but also a degree of traceability as to where the items came from. Moreover, keywords themselves can have their own categories, which is an extra layer of organisation.