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    Lonnie VanZandt commented  · 

    You can configure the Search button and F4 key to search a search service for the thought. I do this for Google and Wikipedia.

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    Lonnie VanZandt commented  · 

    Looking for mapping tools with timeline support, I stumbled upon Tinderbox 5.6. At Eastgate's site, I read about Tinderbox's thought "prototypes" and wonder if that is an implementation of the type-specific metadata which I hope to see in PersonalBrain. I can't simply go buy Tinderbox, try it, and find out because Tinderbox is limited to MacOS and I'm exclusively a Linux and Windows user.

    Is anyone using Tinderbox who can relate whether or not Tinderbox has the ability to create metadata for thought types such that instances of the types have defined sets of editable attributes? (E.g. Thought "Lonnie" as Type @Person immediately gains a Gender attribute which is either Male or Female--and, for Lonnie, is Male.)

    If this is what Tinderbox thought prototypes offer, can PB report back to the forum on when PB users might see something similar in PB?

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    Lonnie VanZandt commented  · 

    Thought metadata should be implemented using Composition (has-a) or Realization (implements-a) rather than Inheritance (is-a) concepts. I can easily think of Thoughts which would mixin the attributes of multiple meta-thoughts; using inheritance is limiting for this.

    The general need though is to be able to express once a set of attributes relevant to a concept (e.g. a Contact Individual has a Name, Phone, Address, Email etc) and then blend that concept into a thought (e.g. Lonnie is a Contact Individual). Make the mixin via the relationship link and not via the Parent/Child hierarchy. Once linked to meta-thought, a separate Attributes Tab would hold all the mixed-in attributes for the context Thought.

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    Lonnie VanZandt commented  · 

    I think this is a static variation of the Structured Attribute meta-thought proposal.