Re: Columns in outliners

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Posted by zeoli
2002-08-11 17:39:03

Ishmael…er, James,

Imagine a spreadsheet in which you could give the rows a hierarchical structure, e.g. rows b, c and d are subcategories of row a. You might use this, say, for simple project management in which row a is a project and rows b, c and d are steps in the project. You might use the columns for tracking due dates for the steps and who is responsible for those steps. Or, if you were outlining a story, you could use the columns to track the timeline of the plot, as another example. There are a lot of ways this can be useful. Of course, apparently it wasn’t useful to enough people, as the best of this type of outline was a product called ECCO Pro, which is now defunct. There was also a great DOS outliner called Grandview which also made use of columns, but not in as sophisticated a way.

I don’t know if this answers your question or just tells you what you already know.

Steve Zeoli
Burlington, Vermont

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