Dr Andus wrote:

@ Franz - thanks for the Scrivener and Word templates. I checked them
out, but I still prefer Gingko for the simple reason that you can see at
least the top 3 levels of the "snowflake" side-by-side horizontally, and
Gingko's "fruit machine" interface makes it very easy to quickly switch
between parts > chapters > sections etc.

Hugh wrote:
>A similar if slightly more awkward result can also be achieved with MS
>Excel* (which I seem to remember Randy Ingermanson himself recommended
>at some point).

Yes, in the end Excel is a large table of index cards. When it comes to
single lines of text, I do use it a lot (especially for project
planning). But with Gingko one can actually start writing the text. I do
have other index card based software (Outline 4D, Story Turbo,
Scrivener, even OneNote), but each have some limitations in their use of
the cards.

Okay, we've gone a bit off-topic re CT v.6 ;)

One more bit of off-topickery (because it may be of use to somebody), and then I'll stop: there was at one time a plug-in/add-on for Excel that helped considerably with the task of writing text in its cells. I used it before I abandoned Windows, and I remember somebody boasting that they'd written a novel with it. But I couldn't find the software in a quick skim of Google yesterday evening.

Sorry - back to CT v.6.