Re: Recombination in Idea!

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Outliners.com Message ID: 3113

Posted by zeoli
2005-04-08 22:22:30

> Consider this: how many pims provide a mechanism for extracting information from various notes and amalgamating it?

Perhaps this is one of the reasons I find the two-pane (or three-pane) outliners far less appropriate for writing than the one-panes. In a one-pane outliner just moving your elements around achieves the combinations you’re refering to.

I can think of two other PIM-type programs that have (or, in one case, had) this facility: Acute Notes (which appears defunct), and Literary Machine. In LM, you can select any notes and have them appear in a single window… I think the developer calls it the “book” view or something like that.

As a work-around, of course, you can use BrainStorm’s Magic Paste feature to clip text from multiple sources, then shuffle it around at will once it’s in BS.

Steve Z.

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