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Re:Unconscious R&D (2021) by mikewarot on Monday January 31, 2022 @04:41PM (#30154878)
Is the problem in editing a document, or just editing long documents?

Tip for long documents: If you have an outliner that works, and can fold text, it is fairly trivial to reorder your work, and arrange it like paper furniture in a model of a room, until you get it just right.

For normal stuff, I do this on a smaller scale all the time, right here in the "add comment" box at HN... type up ideas in a stream of conscious fashion, review what I've written, and then click the button.

Then I review it again... and sometimes go back and edit for clarity.

You can do all that in any text input field of sufficient size... Capture | Organize | Synthesize

There are no new tools required, just some skills/habits to learn.

Re:Unconscious R&D (2021) by HPsquared on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @12:37PM (#30166113)
MS Word's 'outline view" is a little-known feature that allows this: you can expand/collapse sections of the document (based on the headers, or anything with "outline level" paragraph formatting) and click/drag the folded sections to reorder them.

It also works with paragraphs, it has an option to show only the first line of each paragraph to facilitate the same click/drag reordering.