best ways of structuring/organising info to find info you want near-immediately

Posted by Jeffery Smith
Dec 5, 2019 at 03:57 AM

I had high hopes for Ashton-Tate’s “Framework” in the mid-80s. I was on a teacher’s salary, and it had a ridiculously high price ($695?). I finally located a marked-down one at a local software place that was dumping all of their older stuff, and I loved the idea. But I had trouble integrating my research into it because it had some stark limitations (e.g., no subscripts or superscripts!). It was obviously designed for the business world and not the biology research world. Still, if someone made a 21st-century version of it, I’d probably buy it (but not for $695). Modern hypertext programs probably have the same abilities, but not right out of the box. Turning a cell in a spreadsheet into another spreadsheet or a word processing document, that was remarkable.

Jeffery