Wiki -- Why?

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Sep 2, 2006 at 01:19 PM

Stephen, I think I need to work with CT more, and also ZuluPad, which I downloaded at work and played with (very simple, straight forward), to better appreciate the three dimensional aspect of data arrangement.

Re CT and applying categories == MDE InforHandler does that I believe, although the process is different.

Daly

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Daly de Gagne wrote:
>>Again I am trying out Connected Text, and again I am wondering,
>why wiki?
> >Daly,
> >Well, I think it is fair to say that whether or not you like the wiki
>way will depend upon your own sensibilities. Other than Zoot, all my
>PIM/Outliner/Wiki use is still somewhat of a trial. I use ConnectedText at home and
>see a lot of power in this approach. Generally, it seems to me that the power in wikis is
>that they allow you to create structure on the fly. In this way, it is a more organic
>approach to data management. Also, your information is organized in a more
>three-dimensional way than in a typical hierarchical tree. That is, Item A can link to
>Item B which can link to Item C which can link back to Item A. Of course, other programs
>have hyperlinks, so this advantage may be diminished some, but there remains the ease
>of creating the links.
> >Specifically, CT offers some wonderful features. My
>favorite is the ability to add categories to any article. So, for instance, you can
>create a category called “Contact” and the article is automatically indexed in an
>article called “Contact.” Now you can click on that article and see all you contacts
>listed alphabetically with with hyperlinks automatically in place. Pretty
>neat.
> >Steve Z.