Outliner to find associations

Posted by Graham Smith
Jan 21, 2007 at 09:07 PM

Sebastien,

>Unfortunately, it works on unix based systems only,

Seems to also work on the Mac, but I’m having problems finding anything positive about a Windows version. It also seems that development has stopped. A problem with Emacs, a rather attractive Emacs gantt chart tool that I got excited about also seems to be no longer developed either

>and I can’t imagine working with an engineer-designed word processor like Emacs ;-)

Well, I have only been using it for a few weeks (in Windows, and spurred on by the thread on using text editors) and I am finding it a great writing tools, with some really nice wrinkles such keystrokes to transpose characters, words, sentences and paragraphs, and I like the fact that nearly all the window is used for text maximising the information I can read when I have several windows open, and I like the outlining and file management capability I have become a fan, and have moved my time management and free form data management into Emacs as well as my writing and small spreadsheet work, but its a steep learning curve.

Not sure about the “engineer-designed bit Stallman was a software developer interested in music and dance and has written science fiction novels. Now I think he is a “full time” political activist.

>“The Literary Machine [literarymachine.com] provides a lot of power in a Windows environment.

>This software is certainly good, but the UI is a tribute to the computer first ages! Has anyone used it successfully ?

I bought a copy years ago, but couldn’t get on with it. Nor does it work the way remembrence does, it relies on you assigning multiple key words and synonyms, which it then recalls via search or hyperlink - if I remember correctly.

My main recollection of it being that it was very difficult to get to grips with, and I gave up - even though ot showed promise.

Graham