This approach has several advantages...
* Its free-form. Just type (grafit?) away. I don't care what order the
pages are in either.
* I end each page with a unique character string, I use ".end". This
allows me to import and export my data as an ASCII file using
palmimport and palmexport, using the unique string to deliminate
records if needed. This means that I'm not locked into the zoomer
forever; I can get my data on to a new machine some day in the
future. The data originaly started out in tornado notes (remember
that?) then moved to a zeos pocket PC, then to the zoomer.
* Its vitrually unlimited, and you can use ink too if you want to
(knowing that someday your diagram will not export). I try and stay
away from it for future migration.
* The storage is pretty efficient; there is some overhead in the
notebook file, but not much.
* You can have different notebooks for different topics.
There are a couple of drawbacks, of course...
* The text search is slow, it can take 10 seconds to search the 360
pages that I'm using now.
* No fancy searching is available. Usually I just look for a key word
that I remember.
* The search only locates a page, not the position within a page,
so I try to keep my notes to one screen.
* There is some limit on the number of pages, I seem to recall that it
was 600, but check the FAQ if you want to know for sure.
* You can't mix ink and text very nicely without adding a bunch
of spaces and blank lines to align your text.
-Bryan Biggers
bryan@pgd.adp.wisc.edu