Outliner (antique!)
Michael DeBusk
apparently near-extinct category of software called "outliners".
Snipped from Web site http://www.outliners.com/thinkTank2Pc
ThinkTank 2.41NP was released on September 25, 1987
It's character-based! It has a command interface patterned after Lotus
1-2-3, except the commands are at the bottom of the screen.
The download also includes the OS/2 version. (ThinkTank was one of the
first apps to be released for OS/2.) This release came after Ready! and
after the company had switched over to Macintoshes.
(End snip from Web site)
I've downloaded this tool and am happy to report that it runs here. I'm
not yet clear on how I might use it, though. To get it working, I
unzipped it (the archive contains directories) and copied the contents
of its OS2\ directory one level up. It seems to insist on a full-screen
session. Looks interesting.
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Dan Say
>I came across this item while surfing almost aimlessly. It's one of an
>apparently near-extinct category of software called "outliners".
>
>Snipped from Web site http://www.outliners.com/thinkTank2Pc
>
>ThinkTank 2.41NP was released on September 25, 1987
>
>It's character-based! It has a command interface patterned after Lotus
>1-2-3, except the commands are at the bottom of the screen.
>
>The download also includes the OS/2 version. (ThinkTank was one of the
>first apps to be released for OS/2.) This release came after Ready! and
>after the company had switched over to Macintoshes.
>
>(End snip from Web site)
>
>I've downloaded this tool and am happy to report that it runs here. I'm
>not yet clear on how I might use it, though. To get it working, I
>unzipped it (the archive contains directories) and copied the contents
>of its OS2\ directory one level up. It seems to insist on a full-screen
>session. Looks interesting.
>
Find the notes to PCOutline OR Grandview which showed
how outliners were used in those day.
Google either "pc outline" or pcoutline
Garbo has several classic outliners
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/
http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pub/pub/pc/filelist/INDEX.TXT
ray field
Kapor's apps? it's sort of Agenda-like. definitely going to play
around with it when i get the chance. thanks for the pointer.
-rafe t.
leto...@nospam.net
It wasn't Agenda like at all. And Thinktank wasn't a Lotus application.
However, one Lotus programmer -- Jonathon Sacks (I think) took outlining
ideas from Thinktank and developed his own personal version of a word
processor using the outline ideas in ThinkTank. He used it on the job.
Mitch Kapor saw it in use, and decided it was going to be the next Lotus
Application.
The program was called Manuscript and it probably remains the most
powerful document processor ever written. You have to use Framemaker
version 4 or 5 to equal it, and then Frammaker still can't do some of the
thing one can do in Manuscript. It could import a ThinkTank outline.
Someday I'll have to put Manuascrit out on a P2P since I have a full
functional demo copy, as well as ones I own.
Agenda is also free for the download.
>-rafe t.
Richard Steiner
Michael DeBusk <m_de...@despammed.com> spake unto us, saying:
>I came across this item while surfing almost aimlessly. It's one of an
>apparently near-extinct category of software called "outliners".
>
>Snipped from Web site http://www.outliners.com/thinkTank2Pc
Yes -- I've actually been using it here to create thought outlines and
such. It seems like a nice tool for jotting ideas down in a hierarchy
(good for creating lists of things, or even lists of lists).
It seems to me there was something that needed to be done in order to
stop it from resetting the system date and time, though. It was a
setting buried down in the menus somewhere. Or maybe that was the DOS
version that kept on resetting the date. Whatever -- it was annoying!
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