At last -- my review of ConnectedText as an outliner

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 25, 2012 at 05:29 AM

Dr Andus wrote:
>Although wikis are often hailed as our liberators from
>hierarchical thinking, it is possible and can be even useful to view a wiki as a
>hierarchical structure.
> >As I said in one of my comments on Steve’s blog, the wiki’s
>homepage is basically level 1 of a hierarchy, and any outbound links are level 2. Links
>from those are level 3 etc., etc. You have cascading parent-child relationships like
>in an outline.

Yes of course, but here’s the catch:

- Where can you actually see and work with all levels of that outline?

- Wikis don’t guide you towards hierarchical thinking. Unless you have a plan in your mind, you are most likely to connect everything to everything, with no consideration of levels.