Flexible information management

[Kevin Cozens]

At 10:15 AM 07/20/2004, Phillip Mills wrote:
>My main uses for a thing like this would be brainstorming, project 
>documentation/management, and -- above all -- organizing the zillion loose 
>notes I make on every possible topic.
>
>Comments?  Thoughts?

Based in part on your rough notes and more from your planned use, what came 
to mind is a program called an "Idea Processor" or "Outline Processor". I 
had a program for an Amiga computer ages ago for this. I also remember a 
somewhat related but older program for the Apple ][ by the creators of 
Visicalc (IIRC). I think the program may have been called Visinotes(??). It 
gave you a "card" on the screen (a text area of so many lines of x 
characters wide) where you type. The information was then saved to floppy 
disk. It allowed you to do searches to pull up the information. It was in 
part like a computerized version of a drawer full of index cards. I can't 
remember if (how?) it allowed organizing "cards".

Here are a few URLs from a Google search that might lead you to something 
of use/interest:
http://www.ceap.wcu.edu/Houghton/EDELCompEduc/Themes/Outlining/outlining.html
http://members.rediff.com/cpsiitd/software.htm
http://www.modelandmine.com/links_misc.htm


Cheers!

Kevin.  (http://www.interlog.com/~kcozens/)

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