Sentence organization process using Regroup

• Mechanical and Craftsmanship Division Viewing the divided and spatial arrangement of the story and deciding the order of the story, some of the branches are not used.

Written

• Story 1
  • The purpose of the Regroup is to help people who are bewildered by not being able to put into words what they want to say, and to help them through the process of writing output.
  • The output text must be understandable by others.
  • However, sticky notes are material for thought.
  • So the stickies and their spatial arrangement need not be visible and understandable to others, nor do they need to be able to reproduce the original text.
  • It is important that the sticky note be movable. Therefore, conjunctions and directives should be removed. This is because they are difficult to move.
• Story 2
  • Sticky notes and spatial arrangements are temporal for text creation and can be discarded after the text is created.
  • It is a distant ideal, but we think it would be good to be able to reuse these sticky notes.
  • For example, physical stickies cannot be searched, but electronic stickies can.
  • I am also thinking that instead of doing an explicit search, it might be helpful to suggest relevant or this sticky while working on a text using Regroup to help with the text creation process.
  • (This search and suggestion is not a personal priority and has not been implemented.)

source data

“Ideals of the distant future” and “ideals of the near future” tend to get mixed up. ・ “Sticky notes can be reused” is quite far away. ・Near ideal, the objective is to support the transition from “a state in which what you want to say is unspoken and blurred” to “a state in which the output is in the form of sentences that others and yourself six months from now can see and understand”. ・ Sticky notes and their spatial arrangement are temporal in the “process of outputting documents”. ・Temporal, so it tends to be discarded after achieving its purpose ・When I’m putting sticky notes on the whiteboard or something, I have to put them away. ・The world takes pictures and saves them, but that doesn’t even hit the search, sometimes it’s unreadable. ・With my “sticky note on A4 paper” method, you can put it in a clear file, etc. and save it, read it, but you can’t search it. ・If it is digitized, it can theoretically be searched (not implemented, evidence that it is not felt to be that high of a priority). ・It would be nice if you could suggest relevant stickies in the past during chat or Regroup work without explicit search. This piece of information is, ・ Materials for thinking ・Not necessary to be able to reproduce the original text ・Don’t expect others to see and understand at the sticky note stage ・It is important to be able to move

• After splitting it with a conjunctive particle or something, it’s explicitly deleted as garbage. ・Directive words will also be deleted, because it will be hard to move them.

Detailed order

• First written out order

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• Order in completed sentences

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from Mechanical and Craftsmanship Division

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