Trust me, police and intelligence agencies pay thousands and sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars to get this kind of capability. It should be clear from previous threads that the problem here is the same one discussed earlier- that DT2 relies on an outdated metaphor for storing items which needs to be replaced with the ITunes/Gmail tagging system. In addition to the unnecessary duplication and associated logistical issues, somebody relying on this diagram might not realize that John and Joe are “linked” and at this risk of over dramatizing, a criminal or terrorist connection could be overlooked for those who rely on such link charts for those purposes! This is the ideal result I would expect after exporting to OG: With DT2, one would have to add this to one of the folders and then replicate to the other. Let’s say we add a fifth item to the database and one which is linked to both Joe and John. Some users might want to look at folder contents in the diagram but with large databases, there might just be too many items inside the folders and I myself would prefer to see only folders in OG and then click on the linked DT2 folder to see the actual items.
There needs to be an option to export only groups. I can’t imagine doing this for hundreds or thousands of items. The problem is that simple databases don’t need this kind of organizing and there are a couple of things which need to happen to make this useful in those cases:Įach exported item needs to have the DT2 URL assigned to the corresponding OG item. Wow! This is an incredible start and it could serve as a means for visually organizing a simple database. I created a simple database and then exported as an OmniOutliner document and I was pleasantly surprised to get this result: So, once I realized that I could link an Omnigraffle shape or connector to a DT2 folder or item by way of the new DT2 hyperlinks, I was wondering if I could somehow export a DT2 outline to Omnigraffle. The problem with those programs as that they are woefully inadequate as databases to store large amounts of varied data, relying mostly on “notes” instead of actual web pages or documents. Sometimes, however, I have no idea how things fit together and I rely on a visual organizer such as Omnigraffle or Tinderbox to help. DT does well as an outliner which works for me in most projects which do not have a highly complex structure.