Outlining and Fuzzy Thinking

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Posted by richard
2000-12-08 12:44:08

Although outlining as a user interface is a very powerful way of organizing one’s thoughts, it imposes a very digital structure on the information at hand. In addressing information with fuzzy boundaries, outliners fail since they dictate a line be drawn between data domains, and it is difficult to encapsulate organization where the boundaries are not quite sharp. Perhaps there is a way to write an outliner that overlays one mode of organization over another, thus permitting some kind of fuzzy thinking?

I invite some discussion on this issue.

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