Mind versus tree navigation; html versus rtf editing

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Mar 20, 2007 at 10:23 PM

Daly de Gagne wrote:
>Alex, do you not get the same effect with UR when you use the child panel?

The effect is similar, but the tree remains as populated as ever. My point was that in the approach followed by Zoot, Idea! and Surfulater, the child items do not appear in the tree at all, which makes navigation less confusing.

As always, I think there’s a compromise between structure and versatility. Making items and folders discrete requires planning, but IMHO leads to a “cleaner” and more solid structure in the long term; (does your experience with InfoHandler confirm this?). On the other hand, Brainstorm and UR can link anything to anything, which is much faster to do.

>The other nice piece is that after users really made an effort to emphasize the need for
>hoisting, UR put a hoist in the latest version.

I hadn’t really watched the outliner software scene for about six months; I then spent a few hours browsing this forum’s post (and feeling rather envious of the discussions I misssed!). That’s actually where I heard of UR v3.0 and I downloaded it straight away. Hoisting was one of the many pleasant surprises I found.

Overall, I am very positively impressed by Kinook’s development and support record, and very happy to have chosen UR as my main project tool.

alx