Re: Use for Outliners?

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Outliners.com Message ID: 209

Posted by grefou
1999-08-23 19:00:56

I’ve found the cloning function indispensable for outlining screenplay ideas. I might have six threads or throughlines running through a story. These I can mix and match in story-order under one heading, then have several headings following where I can dive down into separate outlines for each story thread. It gets a little more involved than that, but that’s the basic idea. It’s wonderful to be able to focus on one story thread and make changes, then move back to the main outline and see how my changes affect the whole. It’s completely soured me on the idea of using outliners that don’t have that capacity. The only other piece of software I’ve used where I felt I had that kind of control was something called StoryProject. It allows that kind of focus on individual threads, but it’s lacking, in my opinion, because, since it’s not a true, hierarchical outliner, I can’t subsume scenes under sequences and so on.

My experience here has been in Think Tank for DOS. I’ve only recently purchased a Mac and I’m looking forward to giving MORE a spin. It should do everything I’m hoping (and MORE).

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