No, Finale doesn't have something similar. In Finale you
have to save each snippet to its own file, but it's no big
deal. I don't find the Sibelius Ideas feature useful at all.
For copying/engraving work, I too see little use for the Ideas feature.
For those who compose, and do so directly into the computer, this tool in
priceless. One of the problems with composing directly into the computer
is the loss of the process of composing, in my opinion. The process of
sketching, revising, revising, and then revising again, while it may occur
when composing directly into Finale, leaves no traces once the process is
complete. As a composer, I find that I can learn from--and often glean
new ideas, etc. from--looking back on all the bits and pieces that have
come to become a finished work. It is only through a great deal of work
that saving and organizing these bits of work that this occurs within
Finale, and the single reason that I reverted to ONLY moving to inputting
work into Finale once a work was, for all intents and purposes, finished.
Finding this feature in Sibelius has, frankly, been one of the main
reasons that I find it of much greater value as a compositional tool. I
do realize, however, that this has little bearing on either software's
value as a copying/engraving tool. Just my two cents...
--Brennon
Brennon Bortz
Composer
Queen's University of Belfast
School of Music and Sonic Arts
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