Post by amberv on Nov 4, 2005 22:19:27 GMT
See the thread on top-level groups for the start of this.
To clarify on what I mean by clones -- there would not actually be two copies of the document in two different places! That would defeat the purpose. It would all be an illusion. There would only be one document, but in the Binder, it would appear in two places, and have a little dot by the icon or something. If you edit one instance, the other would be edited, because they both reference the same file.
Here is an example of how that would be useful: Say you want to collect all of the scenes involving Bob. So you search for Bob, and Cmd-Opt-Drag the results from the table into a new group called "Bob Edit." You can now go through all of these over the course of a few days, making changes and fixing problems, then when you are done, you can just delete this group of clones. The changes will already be made to the draft because the clones and the copies in the draft referred to the same document.
Conversely, if you had deleted the copy in the draft, then the clone in the Bob Edit group would have lost its dot, and become the sole remaining copy of that document.
It is a little hard to explain if you have never seen it in action, but quite intuitive and extremely useful. As said in the other thread, Hog Bay and TAO are the two Mac applications I know of that support this feature. All of the others use a Root+Aliases system like the Finder.
To clarify on what I mean by clones -- there would not actually be two copies of the document in two different places! That would defeat the purpose. It would all be an illusion. There would only be one document, but in the Binder, it would appear in two places, and have a little dot by the icon or something. If you edit one instance, the other would be edited, because they both reference the same file.
Here is an example of how that would be useful: Say you want to collect all of the scenes involving Bob. So you search for Bob, and Cmd-Opt-Drag the results from the table into a new group called "Bob Edit." You can now go through all of these over the course of a few days, making changes and fixing problems, then when you are done, you can just delete this group of clones. The changes will already be made to the draft because the clones and the copies in the draft referred to the same document.
Conversely, if you had deleted the copy in the draft, then the clone in the Bob Edit group would have lost its dot, and become the sole remaining copy of that document.
It is a little hard to explain if you have never seen it in action, but quite intuitive and extremely useful. As said in the other thread, Hog Bay and TAO are the two Mac applications I know of that support this feature. All of the others use a Root+Aliases system like the Finder.
