Becoming obsessed with the idea of a mac

Posted by Matty
Dec 10, 2007 at 03:53 AM

Stephen thanks for your description of how Maxthink works. That makes some sense to me. I’ll have to give it another look when I get some time.

and yes, Brainstorm has implemented a binsort function.

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>I found that the key to becoming comfortable with the
>writing pane is to think about what it’s there for. Not a really obvious question. It
>doesn’t function as a pane in the 2-pane sense. You just input data there. So what’s the
>point? Why input data at a point other than your outline. That’s the question that I
>think confuses people, as it confused me. My operation of the program became smoother
>when I articulated the narrow purpose of the writing panel.
> >The writing panel
>allows you to see entire note entry you are working on, while having outline itself
>show only one line of each note. Why not expand only the note being worked on, while
>allowing editing in the main pane? Then the note you are working on might take the bulk
>of the space, and you couldn’t see the structure of the outline while working on the
>note.
> >I haven’t seen the new Brainstorm, but if I understand what you describe,
>Brainstorm seems to have implemented a version of binsort. That’s quite important.