Stephen R. Diamond
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Is it worth it?
9/7/2007
How do you know development has been at a standstill? I don't know. I assumed they just had a longer development cycle. Gael seems to have many corporate customers, and I think corporations tend to pr...
Is it worth it?
9/7/2007
The advantage of the radial format il getting all the information on a single page. Mindmappers support short term memory and aid in the chunking process.
quant wrote:
>Cassius wrote:
>>As far as I c...
Is it worth it?
9/6/2007
I checked out the latest MindManager. Perhaps I missed it, but I didn't see a true hoist. The mind mapping programs usually seem to have a feature called "cut to separate mind map." This stands in for...
Is it worth it?
9/6/2007
PMM lacks multiple undo, a critical feature for me.
Is it worth it?
9/6/2007
Cassius wrote:
>As far as I can tell, mind maps just present a graphical representation of an outline.
>In Inspiration, for example, one can create an outline and with a click or two convert
>it ...
Zoot Grows on You
9/6/2007
I don't think the plain text limitation is the main privation Zoot users must suffer. I would be more put of by the 32k limit on item size (or however that precisely goes).
Has Zoot's latest beta in...
Is it worth it?
9/6/2007
While everyone else searches for the perfect pim, I search for the perfect mind mapper. I have two at present, apart from FreeMind. Visual-Mind wants to charge $100 for an upgrade to version 9 that fr...
Zoot Grows on You
9/6/2007
I missed this post. In an outliner, discontiguous topic selection is more important than discontiguous text selection, agreed. What I was saying is that BrainStorm provides for discontiguous topic sel...
sracer wrote:
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>Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
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>>sracer wrote:
>>>In using an outliner for its
>intended purpose (as the skeleton for
>>the
>>>eventual document), BOTH folding AND
>notes are...
sracer wrote:
>In using an outliner for its intended purpose (as the skeleton for the
>eventual document), BOTH folding AND notes are required. (unless I'm
>misunderstanding the use of the term "...
That was my first thought in when I read Steve Zeoli's post: it is a variant of Folding or Shrinking, with approximately equivalent functionality. Personally, I have preferred the "Notes" approach, b...
Yes, that's all I mean, nesting as you say. These are actually, I admit, pretty minor embellishments or variants of Hoist or Focus. (Double hoist can be emulated by splitting windows, if the outliner ...
One other default filter operation worth comment - Hide. I haven't seen this in outliners, but the mind mapper VisiMap includes it. Whether it is a unique default filter, I don't know.
Hide simply ma...
David Dunham wrote:
>Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
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>>I _meant_ collapsing (the word had slipped my mind),
>although "folding" often (and
>>perhaps in best usage) refers to yet a fifth way: by
>show...
I _meant_ collapsing (the word had slipped my mind), although "folding" often (and perhaps in best usage) refers to yet a fifth way: by showing only the first line of an item.
ndx Cards has a top tier outliner, but just barely. (For example, it lacks a hoist function or elaborate controls over partial folding of the tree.) It has a fairly good free form database, but far fr...
>But for outlining in the traditional sense, I really think that single pane
>is it. I find that having more than a single pane visually and mentally
>breaks the document up too much.
The "correct...
Most "outliners" are one of two kinds: 1) Composition tools or 2) free form databases. To become wildly successful, however, an outliner probably needs to appeal to both groups, writers and pack rats,...
Fast Word Processor w RTF & Outlining
8/26/2007
Alx,
TextMaker has become a top-tier word processor, but the one Word functionality completely missing is outlining. As to an earlier version of Word, one probably should consider the layers of secur...
Zoot Grows on You
8/26/2007
BrainStorm overcomes the main _limitation_ in manipulating plain text: the potential for multiple discontiguous text selection seems to be a property of rtf and not plain text. MS Word has it; no plai...
What's so great about Zoot?
8/26/2007
One other thing. AceText gives you to manipulate text is the use of regular expressions. I have never used them, but they appear very powerful. Does Zoot offer this mechanism for manipulating text.
What's so great about Zoot?
8/26/2007
What do you think causes features' stealthiness? Or Zoot's features in particular to be stealthy? Can Zoot be characterized as a program with great features but a terrible interface, in that hiding t...
Fast Word Processor w RTF & Outlining
8/26/2007
I think Word is faster in executing functions, but on today's computers, I don't know anyone can tell the difference. But on startup speed, I find WordPerfect much faster. I have WP 9 installed and Wo...
Fast Word Processor w RTF & Outlining
8/24/2007
Corel WordPerfect is the only program I can think of that might meet your criteria.
Notetaking software discussion
8/23/2007
Has this discussion been mentioned: http://www.donationcoder.com/Reviews/Archive/NoteTakers1/index.php
Some interesting comments on notetaking software, with at least one strange omission, MS OneNote...