Re: [Tb] Tinderbox, OmniOutliner, and GTD

On 7/11/06, Benoit Pointet <info_at_e.gramme.ch> wrote:
>
>
> > a palette of examples, geared to different uses, with explanations
> > and suggestions about the different ways in which they could be
> > modified
>
> This practical palette of examples is what I most often missed in
> Tinderbox. Tinderbox proposes many great ways of presenting
> information (maps, outlines, ...) and the team is apparently working
> on implementing better drag'n'drop and imports; but I think such a
> palette provided with the software would be of a great help to
> everyone: time saving, and putting aside the technical aspects of
> Tinderbox when in a hurry.
>
> Some ideas for such a palette, I thought of:
> - The templates should run on any Tinderbox file (use only System
> Attributes, Users may add theirs to the templates),
> - The palette should provide for each Tinderbox View Mode (Map,
> OUtline, ...) an XTHML (or SVG) template,
> even more, there could be a suite of templates that would
> render a Tinderbox File as it's XHTML equivalent,
> - The palette should provide templates that allow the translation of
> a Tinderbox file into another file format (OPML, ...),
> - The palette should provide some classic & clear Textual Pagination
> templates.
>
> This would also have the benefit to clearly state some
> straightforward possibilities Tinderbox offers, (it would also show
> what's not so easy to do with Tbx).
>
> b.
>
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> The idea of a group of examples using existing documents is really a
wonderful suggestion. I am a college professor and must do a great deal of
research and writing. I am playing with Tinderbox, but I am using
Devonthink for my research because I don't know how to do the things I want
to do in Tinderbox.
Received on Tue Jul 11 2006 - 21:22:37 EDT