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Posted by Amontillado
Feb 5, 2023 at 03:45 PM
I’ve often thought it would be nice to be able to have an outline entry appear in more than one place in an outline.
For instance, a flashback to an event already covered in the narrative.
I didn’t realize it until today. Curio has provided that facility for some time. You can copy a text block (figure, in Curio-speak) as a synced instance.
You can also copy list, or outline, entries as synced instances, too.
It’s intriguing. Every entity in Curio has a note attachment, including list entries. Turn on the notes inspector and a Curio list becomes a two pane outliner.
Synced instances also sync their note attachments.
I can have an outline entry appear in more than one place in the outline, which sounds interesting, and I can also paste any single entry in the outline as a synced instance anywhere else in a Curio project (document).
So, there you are, outlining away, creating topics with notes in a hierarchical list.
Next, you pop up a corkboard (idea space, as Curio folk would say) and start making notes about how to express your story. You’ve got a text note up as a sketchpad, and your sketchpad can be flanked with synced instances of character notes, location ideas, plot devices, whatever you want, plus you can paste synced instances of relevant individual outline items, too.
Much of that can be done in Obsidian, but not all. As far as I know, Obsidian’s Canvas plugin won’t allow transclusion of a single outline entry. An idea space in Curio is similar to an Obsidian Canvas.
Even better, it appears the next version of Curio will have a query language. Mind maps, lists, and kanban stacks can be aggregated by query.
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Feb 5, 2023 at 04:31 PM
Hi,
This is the core of what InfoQube is and can do. Items are like individuals, i.e. you and me.
We exist as part of a hierarchy (parents, children) but it isn’t our most important property and life and death is not (generally) linked to that of the hierarchy.
IQ therefore support multiple parents (the proper name for this thread’s subject—clones) with a multitude of display and filtering features to get the most optimal list of items for the current task.
Available on Windows and, through 2-way sync, on all devices (mobile, other OSs) using Evernote and Google Services.
Pierre Paul Landry
IQ Designer
https://www.infoqube.biz/Home
Posted by Amontillado
Feb 5, 2023 at 05:50 PM
Other OS’s? Mac, by any chance?
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Feb 6, 2023 at 12:39 AM
> Other OS’s? Mac, by any chance?
I would very much like to, but the toolkits used are Windows only (Codejock, exOntrol)
You can of course run it in a VM…
Posted by James Salla
Feb 6, 2023 at 04:08 AM
A program called Brainstorm (https://brainstormsw.com) that’s been around for a while has this as its main feature. In addition, the outliner Treeline (http://treeline.bellz.org) recently added the ability to link identical entries and an editor called Leo (https://leo-editor.github.io/leo-editor) has this feature.