An interesting idea. Makes me think of Ted Nelsons stuff. (01)
Unfortunately for me, I have no windows in my daily life,
so it does not help me. (02)
But it is worth picking over. (03)
"Matthew A. Schneider" <matsch@sasites.com> writes: (04)
% John Sechrest wrote:
%
% > If my file system were a wiki, I would have found
% > the writing by now.
% >
% I recently stumbled upon the Literary Machine, from a link on Purdue's
% OWL site. This product may well have eased the retrieval of those thoughts.
%
% I'm not sure I know how to describe it, maybe somewhere between
% NoteCards and Goldmine. Freeware but Windows only. Here's some info from
% the home page, http://www.literarymachine.com/
%
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%
% <meta name="keywords" content="PIM mind concept mapping brainstorming
creative creativity get published relational database literary machine research
writing writer author authoring freeware free software productivity information
manager management des
ktop organizer compose composing outline outliner outlining word processing
Sommestad gunnar sommestad eax LM Professional Pro 2000 LM2000 thinking memory
Wittgenstein cognitive fuzzy knowledge ebook innovation semantic semantics
technical thesaurus non
-linear hypertext hypermedia synonym homonym">
% <!-- Have you ever wanted a way to organize all of those random thoughts
that pop into your mind throughout the day? Do you need a place to put all
those pieces of information that float around your desk? -->
%
% and...
%
% /Oh, do not ask, "What is it?"
% Let us go and make our visit./
% — T.S. Eliot
%
%
% *The Literary Machine* is a one-of-a-kind program that takes PIM in a
% new direction to make it a creativity and productivity tool as well as
% an archive. It was conceived as a tool to help writers with the most
% difficult part of the job — conquering the blank page and shaping a vast
% amount of material into a coherent, organic whole. To that end LM
% incorporates a unique set of compositional, reference, and outlining
% tools. Writers and researches chisel-out a document in LM before porting
% it into their favorite word processor or desktop publisher for polishing.
%
% The core of The Literary Machine is a relational database for random
% information (e.g., research, notes, and archived writing) based on the
% Borland Database Engine. Information (including sounds, text, and
% pictures) is stored on electronic note cards marked by keywords that can
% be combined to form hybrid concepts. The system thus embeds information
% in a three-dimensional keyword matrix that illuminates the relationships
% among different items of information stored at different times in
% different contexts. It thus serves as a textual concept-mapper or
% concept-tracker and a brainstorming tool.
%
% External information (e.g., Web pages and local files) can be integrated
% with the database and displayed and searched from within LM. Unlike
% other information managers, however, LM is optimized for processing
% information, not for merely storing vast amounts of it. So it occupies a
% different niche in the market.
%
% See for yourself how LM enables mind and machine to interact in unique
% and powerful ways. That's because both databases work the same way. To
% find out what you can do with this groundbreaking productivity tool, see
% this introduction to LM 2000 <http://www.sommestad.com/lm2000.htm>
% freeware or to LM Pro <http://www.sommestad.com/lmp.htm>.
%
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%
% Some nice demos here: http://www.literarymachine.com/LM_3_3.htm. You may
% want to check out #4 on the outlining capability. Outlines are overlayed
% on the data, so one can have as many version/views as is desired.
% All-in-all a pretty cool looking product. No collaboration features that
% I see, but I've seen several folks ask for just such a tool.
%
% Regards,
%
% Matt
%
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