Thank you for your kindness. I try to use MapView as a spatial metaphor: what are the places I’d like to be to do what I have to do (read, write, accomplish tasks…). The garden (jardin) is so called by reference to its cultural symbolicity. I gather in that place every “fleeting notes”, notes “on-the-fly” that come to my mind and that I could “garden”. L’atelier (workshop) is a place where I need to process some urgent or some hard tasks. I write down on the desk (bureau) every piece of writing I could put in my own desk table. It is tempting to use MapView since, for me, it is very close to the feeling I experience while using paper. For instance, when I open a note to rewrite it above my planner, I really feel as if it was paper.
But, sometimes, the more I endeavour to set up a fine file, the more I think I do not need to work this way. If we weren’t at a digital era, in the necessity of keeping a track of every interesting weblink, I think I’d keep my own old note-taking style with paper cards. I think too that the last Tinderbox meetup convinced me — if I was not already — to use the Outline view without too much visual complexity, with no multiple containers, but by filing my notes by attributes which is, upon reflection, quite similar to use alphabetic index cards. Regarding this, the Attribute Browser and the Tinderbox export possibilities are very exceptional tools.