Re: [NTLK] physical vs. virtual page (was: Pen Thickness Setting)

From: Tony Kan (tony.kan_at_clear.net.nz)
Date: Wed Mar 17 2004 - 12:14:41 PST


Quite right, reading electronically also means shifting across to a
different modus operandi for maintaining context-awareness within a
document.

That's why I prefer outlining and collapsing the parent bullet points as
often as possible so that I can maintain as much of an overview of a
document on one Newton screen as possible. The other option is to use one
of the scroll bar utilities to give an indicator of how far into the
document one is.

I have long abandoned the approach of finding material based on where it is
in a document. I just use the find feature in "Assist". In effect, it
gives me a free form "database" facility and I don't have to worry too much
about where a piece of information is located within the soup of notes or
other documents.

Cheers

Tony
Christchurch
New Zealand

[snip]

Were I to try to remember where I was on a long note (essentially one long
virtual page), I would quickly get lost. Printing on paper seems to add
enough
structure to the viewed content that I'm able to remember more of what I've
read and where I've been. (Let's see, I think it was on the top left of page
near the middle of the document. If I were to review the note on the Newton,
there might not be any page boundaries, so I might lose that crutch.)

[snip]

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