Hyperbole User Manual
7.9 Outliner History
Much of the Hyperbole outliner design is based upon concepts pioneered
in the NLS/Augment system, [Eng84a]. Augment treated documents as
a hierarchical set of nodes, called statements, rather than cells.
Every Augment document utilized this intrinsic structure.
The system could rapidly change the view of a document by collapsing,
expanding, generating, clipping, filtering, including or reordering
these nodes. It could also map individual views to multiple workstation
displays across a network to aid in distributed, collaborative work.
These facilities aided greatly in idea structuring, cross-referencing,
and knowledge transfer. The Koutliner is a start at bringing
these capabilities back into the mainstream of modern computing culture.
