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Posted by shatteredmindofbob
Jan 24, 2018 at 12:12 AM
bobmclain wrote:
shatteredmindofbob wrote:
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>> I also like the idea of antisocial, neurotic and introverted software
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>What’s to like about that kind of software? Sounds more like an art
>project…
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I work alone and I’m sick COLLABORATION! COLLABORATION! COLLABORATION!
Posted by kjxymzy
Jan 24, 2018 at 03:33 AM
Chris Murtland wrote:
>In my opinion, however, the greatest thing about BrainStorm is the
>ability to “mark” multiple locations in the outline and then “throw” or
>“retrieve” entries to/from those marks - even if the marks aren’t
>visible.
Does any modern (updated in the past year) outliner software do that? It is such a powerful concept, I’m surprised it isn’t a common feature.
Posted by Chris Murtland
Jan 24, 2018 at 03:09 PM
kjxymzy wrote:
Chris Murtland wrote:
>>ability to “mark” multiple locations in the outline and then “throw” or
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>Does any modern (updated in the past year) outliner software do that? It
>is such a powerful concept, I’m surprised it isn’t a common feature.
>
Well, InfoQube does have the ability to mark items and then do some operations with the marked items - like add them as cloned children of another parent. That’s also highly useful, but a little different than “throwing” items to marked locations, I think.
The way you can move items in Dynalist - with a popup search that can find any other item in your account, is sort of similar and actually pretty good. There is still something about the BrainStorm approach that makes restructuring information very fast once you have all the keyboard shortcuts in muscle memory.
Posted by washere
Jan 24, 2018 at 06:29 PM
Technically it is often called “Hoisting”. Whizfolders for example calls it that. Others like Tinderbox Scrivener Getright HyperPlan and some others also allow similar propriety or custom views. They let one create such selective custom views of chosen items/sub-items in new views or outlines or whatever terminology they use. Usually by tags or metadata or other means. Some let you sort by tags metadata by clicking column titles, like scrivener. Can color label too, etc etc. However I prefer multi views of same doc in Outline4D to hoisting. Not many use Outline4D, maybe a few here. I can import into Outline4D output from dozens of softwares of various genres, wasn’t easy, needs a specific number of different steps for each though.
Posted by washere
Jan 24, 2018 at 07:43 PM
Also before committing to any platform for a big project, if hoisting or selective/filtered views are needed, it is best to make sure it contains: