most facile outliner

Posted by Gary Carson
Apr 15, 2012 at 02:06 PM

“Brainstorm itself with its ?permanent hoist view? is not always easy to grasp:”

Permanent hoist view crippled an otherwise useful program, if you ask me. Hoisting is a good way to focus in on one level of an outline, but what if you need to refer back to some other part of the outline? The Brainstorm model forced you to go back to the previous level, find the new level, hoist that level, etc., etc. I eventually stopped using Brainstorm for just this reason. A good outliner has to be more flexible than this. The user should be able to control how much of the outline is visible at any one time.