Clones? Cross-referencing?

Posted by 22111
Oct 6, 2013 at 03:39 PM

WSP, I’m not sure I did NOT mix up those “virtual items” you spoke of, and what I remember from RightNote. I last time checked it out some months ago (cannot trial such things anytime, without having a valid image, since by trialling in my running system, I would not have any chance to trial again, later on, even if I just install for one day), and did not find clones (as you say, in MI 6.0 now, clones are very well implemented, as well as in UR, for example), but something “weird” - did not take notes about it, which I should have.

Now, I try to remember from their web page, and it’s this thing, I think, “Any child notes of a folder note automatically get tagged with the note’s caption. This allows you to organize and tag at the same time.”, together with the functionality around auto-tagging, and I even remember them saying, on bits, something like - I hope I don’t falsify their opinion here - “our tagging system comes so advanced that we don’t even need clones anymore”.

Which is not right, of course, since outliner users don’t generally want the children tagged with their parent’s name, but perhaps a clone of the parent itself, in some different content, and then he will access those children by selecting the cloned parent.

As we both say, MI cannot cross-reference to different databases. But even if there is no internal functionality for it, intended by the developer of such software, it might always be possible to access individual items within such a database from the outside, meaning by some “open database abc” command line command, and then put an identifier behind this general command (and since this would be a command line command, it should also be possible from within a database of the same kind, meaning there should be some “trick” for this, even for MI, and if there is, it should be possible to trigger such a command from within any other program, and also from within MI, as an example); I suppose that in the end, for most of database-based outliners, this should be possible, with a little help from the developer, or with having a good look into the used database.

Surfulater: Since surfulater is a web-grasping specialist, this feature opens up some additional use for it. As said by me in another thread, most people too much try to enter whole web sites into their outliner, from my point of view, blocking, by this wish, too much of the respective developers’ developing effort in their trying to implement correct processing/translation of the last developments in web sites’ technology.

But why not have category and sub-category items in a “specialist” like Surfulater, putting all your web sites into that, instead of your outliner, and make the corresponding category and sub-category items in your outliner links to the corresponding Surfulater items?

So the very next question would be, is it possible to have such links into Surfulator’s immediate competitor, WebResearch (from macropool.de), too? If not, this would make Surfulater (at least in its current desktop shape) THE outstanding application for your web sites collection, with direct access from your respective outliner topics.