OmniOutliner is another class act which has columns, and therefore helps with structured data that could end up as a database. Scrivener, which is my favourite writing tool, is very good at what it does in protecting authors from the complexity of their work. ![]() The better of these programs have evolved in different directions for particular niches. Bloatware can result from trying to do too much for too many different needs. Outliners and in particular, mind mapping software programs have become so feature-rich, that it could be argued that their complexity can start to work against creativity. Such visual noise can be distracting when you need to be creative. Over the almost 3 decades since MORE was dubbed the perfect outlining program, and in no need of further development, bells and whistles, and even amplifiers have been added to these types of programs. By adding graphical capabilities they are also known as mind maps. ![]() It is what was once called a thought processor, or more commonly an outliner. Another type of tool can come into play much earlier in the legal solution delivery process. My tweet was in the context of a discussion on software to help busy lawyers avoid basic mistakes when drafting contracts, a mundane but nevertheless important capability to have in one’s kit. Hence, I recently tweeted rather cryptically for the sake of brevity: Tools, like lawyers, imperfect alone, hence need each other. While I have always found the binary thinking of computers attractive compared to some legal reasoning, in this case, an either/or approach is too blinkered. ![]() It comes with the obligatory “us vs them” talk of lawyers work being taken over by machines that learn. This is in part due to the increased capabilities of machines at a time when the business of law is undergoing dramatic change. Interest is returning to the potential of expert systems or knowledge-based systems in law.
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