EccoPro: Why has nobody developed a clone so far?

Posted by sracer
Aug 29, 2007 at 02:03 AM

Wes Perdue wrote:
>Except MyInfo is a two-pane
>outliner: it doesn’t comply with rule 1.

Exactly. I already use KeyNote for data organizing and appears to hold its own against apps like MyInfo. I don’t even know if it is fair to call a 2 or 3 pane application an outliner.

KeyNote does a great job of managing and organizing pieces of information in a tree-like structure. But there are some times when data is more of a network/web than a hierarchy. For those instances, I’ve been getting into WikidPad… an offline wiki. For example, I’m compiling stories from my childhood for my kids and it is great to have data automatically linked from various places. So it doesn’t matter what path the reader takes, whenever they run across a reference to “Uncle Joe”, clicking on that link will take them to the same information.

But for outlining in the traditional sense, I really think that single pane is it. I find that having more than a single pane visually and mentally breaks the document up too much.