#56 Select & View Multiple Entry Descriptions in Tree

[Danny Weltman]

Here's an argument I have in my database: "Baron and Van Dyke's perudurantism problem response to the fragmented persons response to Baron and Van Dyke's Pascal Wager argument against the bite the bullet response to the transfiguration objection to practice-based conativism"

As you can gather, the argument is nested rather far down in the tree. It's nested under "The fragmented persons response to Baron and Van Dyke's Pascal Wager argument against the bite the bullet response to the transfiguration objection to practice-based conativism" which is nested under "Baron and Van Dyke's Pascal Wager argument against the bite the bullet response to the transfiguration objection to practice-based conativism" etc. all the way up to the "practice-based conativism" position (which itself is nested under some stuff, but that's not relevant).

It would be nice to read through the entire dialectic from top to bottom in one screen: the entry for pratice-based conativism on the top, under which I'd see the transfiguration objection to practice-based conativism, etc. all the way down to Baron and Van Dyke's perudurantism problem response to the fragmented persons response to Baron and Van Dyke's Pascal Wager argument against the bite the bullet response to the transfiguration objection to practice-based conativism.

I could do this by making, say, a note, and then embedding, in order, all the relevant things. But that would be a little tedious, since I'd have to make such a note for every sort of argument chain I want to read through, and I'd have to remember I made the note, and so on.

An easier option, I think, would be if the tree let me select multiple items by holding down the CTRL key. Then at the bottom when displaying the description of the selected entry, it could just show all the descriptions, ordered from top to bottom as they appear in the tree.

There are probably other ways to implement something like this which are maybe more intuitive/useful. For instance, maybe when viewing any argument, position, whatever, there could be a button that says "display descriptions from here upwards" and it would take me to the equivalent of a note with all the relevant things embedded.