Allow importing of data the way humans organize data...
Humans don't keep their data in spreadsheets like this:
---------[COLUMN 1]---------- [COLUMN 2]
[LINE 1]---Apples
[LINE 2] ----------------------------Red
[LINE 3]---Peppers
[LINE 4] ----------------------------Red
[LINE 5] ----------------------------Green
Humans keep their data in spreadsheets like this:
---------[COLUMN 1]---------- [COLUMN 2]
[LINE 1]---Apples------------------ Red
[LINE 2]---Peppers----------------Red
[LINE 3]------------------------------Green
To reformat the data is no trivial task. I don't even mind importing 10 separate times to get 10 separate child thoughts for my 100 parent thoughts, but I certainly don't want to reformat 1000 thoughts because the import outline utility is not robust and has not improved since version 4.5 of the Brain.
I'd love to be wrong about this. This is a big reason I stopped using the brain many years ago.
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Bryan commented
(I think the programmers are pretty awesome, by the way -but this import thing...........)
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Bryan commented
Humans also REALLY like to keep their data organized like this:
---------[COLUMN 1]---------- [COLUMN 2]---------- [COLUMN 3]---------- [COLUMN 4]
[LINE 1]--Item---------------------Color--------------------Shape-------------------Weight
[LINE 2]---Apples------------------Red --------------------round--------------------.23
[LINE 3]---Peppers-------------Red, Green--------------round---------------------.18
[LINE 4]---Radishes---------------Red---------------------oval----------------------.11What planet are the programmers from?