Use of OmniOutliner for Non-hierarchical Information

[Mark Smith]

Michael Sauer wrote:

>I wanted to ask people how they use OmniOutliner to represent, process, 
>and think through non-hierarchical information.  What I mean by 
>non-hierarchical information are things that usually are represented as 
>links to other things that lead to reading in a non-linear fashion.
>
>Thanks in advance for any discussion/dialogue that may be created by 
>this.

This is a "just in case heads-up":

There are two tools that, if you haven't already, *might* be worth looking at:

Tinderbox:

<http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/index.html>

Tinderbox's Map view and link function are extraordinarily useful for non-linear processes.

VoodooPad:

<http://flyingmeat.com/voodoopad.html>

Being Wiki-based, you can't get more non-linear. Ironically, you can come up with an HTML exported solution akin to Tinderbox's linked Map View by combining VooDooPad and OmniGraffle [1] but not (yet) (AFAIK) by combining OmniOutliner and OmniGraffle.

Sorry to waste your time if you know them already.

I'll also be interested to learn about any ideas people have for using OO in this way.

mark.

[1] Can (given time) explain this if anyone is interested, but its fairly easy to discover for yourself (otherwise I would have missed it), and more fun.