An Outliner or a Word Processor? (It was There We Go!)

[Georges Kormikiaris]

On 10 de dez de 2004, at 16:24, Mark Smith wrote:

> Some felt, that there was an underlying issue with OO in that it lacks 
> a model of clear separation between structure and content. The "note" 
> is the obvious level at which this separation *could* be made. In 
> short, all of your structure would go into the "normal" outliner nodes 
> and all of your content would go into your notes.

So maybe it has a way of implementing the separation you're asking for?

> There are obvious, serious limitations with the app as it stands here. 
> Omni would need efffectively to replicate a lot of the outliner 
> functionality inside the notes.

Why? If it is content there (notes) and it is separated from the 
strucuture (where the outliner functions should operate), why would you 
need to implement outliner functionality within content (notes)?

The way I see it, transforming an outliner in a word processor would be 
a bad idea. An outliner should give me the ability to concentrate on 
initial ideas and to put those initial somewhat loose ideas into 
perspective through an organized structure, after that I can move on to 
my favorite word processor. Nirvana would be reached when OO can easily 
integrate with "put your favorite word processor here" and things could 
move back and forth smoothly, whenever you need to concentrate on the 
structure (in order to change it, grow it, etc).

Best,

Georges