On Mar 21, 2010, at 3:56 AM, iain wrote: > surely you need to have some general structure in mind before you hit > twt-treeview-executive or some other form of Dave Gifford's original > notebook idea
Nope. I can start with an arbitrary structure -- a root topic and a few subtopics named without giving much thought to the naming or "proper" place in the tree heirarchy. As thinking develops as I collect notes, my thinking about how to structure them becomes a little more refined. There have been times when I've undertaken a radical restucturing of a TW containing in which I've collected a lot of notes and that as a consequence has a relatively carefully thought out structure. That, for me, is the beauty of TW. Or should I say, one of the beauties. The only piece of software that comes anywhere close to it is an old DOS application, MaxThink, that I still use. It too, is good at organizing and reorganizing. When I said earlier that when I get to the place where I'm reading to write for an external audience I switch to a wordprocessor, that was not quite accurate. I go from TW to MaxThink, and only when I'm ready to format a finished product do I move to a wordprocessor. Regards, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
