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Re: Show HN: Gingko, a tree-document editor

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post #9

I like the use case for reading movie scripts, it could help to keep all levels of the story in mind: https://gingkoapp.com/Alien-1979

Thanks!

Screenwriting was one of the initial inspirations for the UI, because screenplays are naturally hierarchical (logline > Acts > Sequences > Scenes > Beats).

Re: Show HN: Gingko, a tree-document editor

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post #8

Dear authors, my screen has hundreds of pixels vertically, I would like to be able to read more than 15 lines at once. The font size is insanely huge. It made me close the tab.

Just how tall is your screen? Also, http://www.wikihow.com/Zoom-With-a-Web-Browser

Re: Show HN: Gingko, a tree-document editor

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post #10

Have you thought about allowing for the creation of arbitrarily deep trees? That's one of the features I like most about workflowy. This looks really cool, though!

Yes, we're definitely working on adding arbirary depth. We are starting with three because it's enough to realize the benefits.

Infinite depth is coming (as well as other exciting features).

Re: Show HN: Gingko, a tree-document editor

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post #15

Reminds me of Ted Nelson's Zigzag, only he had N dimensions and a cell structure. http://xanadu.com/zigzag/

Yes, Ted Nelson has some similar work in this line. But I think he went too far with the N dimensions... Text is linear, Gingko text is 2-dimensional.

With it, we can represent more than two dimensions, by simply "slicing" along any two we choose (e.g. text & comments)... not sure I'm explaining this properly :-/

Re: Show HN: Gingko, a tree-document editor

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I like how it organizes information spatially, like WorkFlowy. I much prefer this visual organization to tags, for example. That said, I found it hard to understand what it was, even though I'm a long-time WorkFlowy user and am very interested in this kind of thing. I wrote a post where I talked about organizing information visually in more depth here: http://colemanfoley.quora.com/Mind-Mapping-with-WorkFlowy (Registration NOT required to read).
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