T3 to T1: Can we skip the intermediate blog?

[Alexander Deliyannis - SYMPRAXIS Team (eu)]

On the occasion of this discussion http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/3838/25 I was wondering myself whether it would make sense to skip the blog as a repository, reducing the number of tools that we use from T3 to T1.

I am not saying to skip T2 as a process, because this kind of 'polishing' of texts, i.e. focusing on one topic at a time is essential in many ways. However, for me such work can be facilitated with many writing tools other than a blog, whose editor itself is in my case not particularly helpful. The finished product would the go directly to the T1 Wiki --if it's also published elsewhere for third parties to view that's another issue.

So in my case the current procedure and associated tools would be as follows:

T3 Random long form brain dumps: ResophNotes (Windows) and AndroNoter (Android) synced via the SimpleNotes service; very simple to use and lets me work anywhere without worrying about copying files from one machine to the other.

T2 Polished texts: Brainstorm and Sense mostly. Copy finished result to Wiki.

T1 Wiki: currently testing Connected Text and Dokuwiki; the first is more simple to use and very powerful, but cannot provide sharing which may be quite important in my case.

 

[Joseph B]

Absolutely you can use something different than a blog for T2. 

The problem would be losing a sequential, tagged record of your drafts. 

Can Sense duplicate this affordance? It seems to be an intriguing little editor, when I glanced at its main page. 

How are you using it with BrainStorm? 

I will cogitate further on your post, and try your tools, when I get around to the next major Cyborganize update. 

As far as workflow, it's quite possible to skip from T3 to T1 for a single document, but unless you're going to make that huge quality leap every time, it's better to keep the T2 step in the work flow, as you say.

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[Joseph B]

By the way, I am using T2 blogs for an additional purpose. I will create a private post with a [to proc] for important reading to be digested into notes and actions. Of course this only works for non-time-critical items.

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Alexander Deliyannis - SYMPRAXIS Team (eu) <a...@sympraxis.eu> wrote:

[Alexander Deliyannis - SYMPRAXIS Team (eu)]

I only use Sense / Brainstorm for editing, not as repositories. The end result goes into the wiki (or what I would call the T3 relational repository).

It would be great if all editors and repositories were modular; I envisage being able to right click on my draft and select "Edit with Sense" or "Edit with Brainstorm". I would then have all the benefits of a dedicated writing environment within the relational repository. For the moment it's copy and paste.

Of course if the texts are small, I will use the repository's native editor to get it over with.

[Alexander Deliyannis - SYMPRAXIS Team (eu)]

That should be the "T1 relational repository"

[Joseph B]

Makes sense, that can work