![]() With a simple set of keystrokes, you can switch your view from your whole outline to focusing on individual headings, sub-headings, and individual passages of writing. This is when I remembered FoldingText, an app that allows you to create an outline in plain text (or markdown), and then to “fold” the view at any level of focus, from the macro to the micro. This worked OK, but when it came time to write out the details of the individual sessions, we were stuck attaching Word docs to the back of each card, creating extra steps to switching from the macro- to the micro- level view. It’s the same with taking plain text notes and keeping them in a desktop folder - you have to open each note to see everything at once, which can really break your creative flow.įor our course planning, we started using a kanban board like Trello to plan the individual sessions so we could move the cards around and reorder the sessions. ![]() One of my favorite note-taking tools, Evernote, allows you to group individual pages into notebooks, but within that, you can’t really re-order notes, or look at them from a bird’s eye view. You could write those in separate Word files, but then again, how do you look at the big picture? If you open a Word doc to write Chapter 1 of your novel, you may have a harder time sketching out the broad strokes of how Chapters 5, 10, 15, and 20 will go. Whether you’re writing a multi-chapter book, planning a complex course, or prepping for a big life event like having a baby or moving to a new town, you often have to look at the project from multiple “zoom levels” to pay proper attention to everything - looking at the big picture and the smallest details to keep everything in mind at once.ĭifferent project planning tools and writing apps can lock you in to viewing your project at one “zoom level”, and make it awkward to step back and see the big picture or focus in on the details. I recently started planning a three-day live training event with a colleague, in which we had to design several active learning experiences, with the learnings from each session building upon those that came before it. Switching “zoom levels” on a complex project with FoldingText
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