OmniOutliner-Users digest, Vol 1 #26 - 2 msgs

[Thibodeaux, M. MAJ ENG]

Find/Mark and Gather is light years beyond multiple selections because it's
automagic.

An example: 
Suppose you were trying a court case and you made notes in an outline during
the testimony. If you wanted to bring up every instance in which a certain
name occurred in the testimony you'd simply search, mark and gather into the
outline a group of entries that lists that name. You wouldn't do the search
manually. You'd simply tell the search what to look for and it would gather
a group of entries for you from the outline. Then you can copy or clone that
information for use elsewhere in your outline. If you only wanted to mark
the information you could leave it in the context of the outline-- sort of
like a multiple find where the word is highlighted everywhere in the
document.

If cloning were a feature, you could make a clone of the information you
just gathered in another section of your outline. Call it, "References to
Witness A". If you went back and changed any of the cloned entries, then all
of the entries would be changed (this does not make your file double in size
either).

While I'm at it, I might as well mention "fold" which truncates the text in
the outline to show only the first line of text. I think this would be an
especially helpful feature with the multiple columns feature in OO. It would
allow a user to look at more of the outline/chart at the same time because,
of course, it's nearly impossible to get the big picture if one of your
column entries is many lines long and ruins the spacing for the rest of the
outline. 

MAJ Maxwell S. Thibodeaux
United States Military Academy
West Point, New York
D/English
 

-----Original Message-----
 Message: 2
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:07:46 -0800
Subject: Re: What's the Roadmap to New Features Look like?
From: David Dunham <dunham at mac.com>
To: omnioutliner-users at omnigroup.com

> Find/Mark and Gather?

How is this significantly different from multiple selection?

David