Mark Bernstein
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designer of Tinderbox
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Eastgate Systems, Inc.
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I think the map and outline views "play" very well together, but each view necessarily makes compromises in order to use a limited space efficiently.
In a large document, we can't show everything at once -- at least not in a small window. And the more space on the screen we devote to illuminating individual notes, the fewer notes we can fit into our window.
Outlines show relatively little information about each note, so you can see lots of notes. And outlines hide the insides of containers while giving you three ways -- expanding, hoisting. and opening a new outline -- to reveal the hidden information.
Maps show more information about each note, so you can't easily see as many notes, And maps also hide the insides of containers, while again giving you was to reveal the insides. In particular, it's easy to zoom into a container, and zoom out again.
Often, this information-hiding strategy is exactly what you want in teaching, letting you focus on ideas while providing details as required. In the map, hiding may be reduced by
* using lots of space for containers * setting their $InteriorScale to a small value, so interiors are drawn near or at full size
Even the treemap view, which is probably about as good at showing lots of notes as can be achieved, cannot show you all the notes in large Tinderbox documents.
In small documents, when you CAN see everything, you may not need hierarchy so much; here. maps views with adornments may be all you need, and outline may not give you much leverage.
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