EccoPro: Why has nobody developed a clone so far?

Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Aug 30, 2007 at 08:25 PM

David Dunham wrote:
>Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
> >>I _meant_ collapsing (the word had slipped my mind),
>although “folding” often (and
>>perhaps in best usage) refers to yet a fifth way: by
>showing only the first line of an
>>item.
> >That was #3 on my list. But thanks.

Yes, I see - Shriking. I think those four exhaust the means of hiding topics in a tree, but perhaps they are exhaustive for the trivial reason that “filtering” can subsume anything.

The question might actually be put as ‘What are the possible means of filtering headings in an outline.’ Included would be 1) the means available to specify filters; and 2) the default filter operations. 1) is more important in a database program and 2) in pure outliners. The default filter operations that have found recurrent use in outliners are; collapsing (if it can’t collapse, it isn’t an outliner); hoisting (focusing); and folding (shrinking). Additional default filter operations appearing in some publicly available software have included double hoist (two independent heading hoisted at the same time -ADM) and hoist on hoist (hoist relative to hoisted headings - NoteMap).

Filtering a tree (in the sense of excluding or including headings satisfying content-based critera) is one of the things missing in ndxcards. (Not nearly as important a possible addition, in my opinion, as hierarchical key words).

>So is
>there a 5th way to hide info?
> >I seem to recall that Framework would show you what was on
>the *back* of a topic. (The data is in the front; I think some sort of script was on the
>back?)
> >I guess showing and hiding columns could be a way too, though it’s a stretch.