You’ve inspired me not only by the effortful and thoughtful post but all the good ideas it contains. Thanks both @ipersuade and @anon41602260 for your reflections.
I have to know, Tom, did you create an outline before writing this post?
What strikes me about both of your approaches is how important thinking is when outlining. I suppose that sounds a bit obvious when typed out, but I sort of saw it as a shortcut before. It’s now clear to me that it’s not. Outlining is synthesis, organization, trial and error, further articulation, follow up, and so on.
This level of detail is especially appreciated. It gives me a way to play with outlining for myself. I imagine if I had this mode of notetaking, I might capture different notes, realizing they will ultimately appear in outline form.
As a side note, I could see this paste then organize/re-organize process being very handy for qualitative research, esp when theming coded interviews and the like.
I have OO and have been playing with it a good bit recently. Thanks for giving me a more robust use case to explore!
Beck