Hi there, I've been reading the postings on some initial ideas on creating in what could be conceived as a UX "think tank". This sounds like a wonderful idea. My primary interest focuses on text 'management' capabilities.
As far as text editors are concerned, up till now, primary emphasis mostlylaid on text 'representation' : layout, fonts, bullets, tables, ... . Close to no effort on assisting the 'creative process'. To illustrate my point, I'd like to immediately switch to screenwriting. Besides the main story, screenwriters deal with ideas, characters, locations, ... All of which they have to 'manage'. (Look at Final Draft for example : http://www.finaldraft.com/products/final-draft/ ) Similar elements, yet different from type, return as well in any other text. You have some basic elements, notes, whatever and you'd like to write something about that. No longer a focus on _the_document_ but allow any editing to be looked at a project. Implement some kind of Moleskine-mode into the OO suite. I could write down some ideas, yet I recently discovered an application that offers most of these and more : http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html A customer feedback on their site describes perfectly the direction I'm thinking of : "Scrivener fills the gap between wild promiscuous note-taking (DevonThink), mapping connections and lines of argument (Tinderbox) and producing the final draft (Mellel). My workflow is now complete." Take a step back from the representation and allow people to manage and link their ideas. regards, Geert -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
