bin-sorting

[wordmuse]

I used a product long ago called MaxThink - back in the days when people thought DOS 3.3 was slick. There is a Windows version, but it doesn't come close to the power of the old version, and I gave up on it when I moved over to Windows.

But I never stopped missing it. It had all kinds of brainstorming tools. One of the best was something called Bin Sorting.

You would select several items in a list of siblings; issue the bin sort command, and the selected items became numbered "bins." You would then select an item that was not a bin, and press a number. That item then was moved as a sub-item of the bin of the same number. This enabled you to construct a list, set up your bins, and consider items one by one and have them moved just by working your keyboard. Using this method, I could make short work of a 5 bin system containing 50+ items to be binned.

If something like this could be put on the roadmap - that would be fantastic.

- Bal