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I don't think anything really nails this. Arranging as a primitive is generally overlooked. You need to be able to move up/down hierarchy and "see"/edit across levels easily. Most tools' primitives create barriers to this. Somehow (sorry) org-mode gets this most right.

6:12 PM · Mar 18, 2021Twitter Web App

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Like, it's telling that in many situations like the one you're describing, I'll print out the documents and cut them up and rearrange them in physical space and write on them and then retranscribe them. If *that's* my best-alternative, we're in a rough place!!

Andy Matuschak

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Mar 18, 2021

Scrivener tries. Their "documents" are too heavy a primitive, but you can soften the edges with the "Scrivenings" view which creates a concatenated surface. The problem is that that's *too* zoomed in. You really need "focus+context"—variable levels of detail.

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