Saturday, October 6, 2012; 8:48:36 AM Eastern
A funny thing about outliners
- An idea that might be foreign to people who write in text editors.
- You can use an outliner to write multiple documents.
- Try creating a headline called My Diary.
- Then every day, add a subhead with the day's date.
- And under that write a paragraph about something you learned or did that day.
- Do it for a few days until the strangeness wears off.
- Does this make sense?
- Here's a screen shot of my "worknotes" diary, which is one level deeper.
- You can think of every major head under a day as a separate document.
- In fact the CMS sees it that way. So I have one document which in turn contains many documents. Actually thousands!
- For many people this will be a new way of thinking about writing.
