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+\opt{text}{\skbheading{The Long Story}}
+\opt{note}{\skbheading{The Long Story, Part I}}
+
+Over several years of writing documents (articles, books, reports, standards, research proposals)
+ideas and concepts became distributed (actually a euphemism for 'hidden') within many many documents
+(in all sorts of formats) located at many many locations (such as local file system, document management
+system, subversion/perforce systems, web servers, email clients). The problems associated to this situation
+are manifold:
+\begin{skbnotelist}
+ \item Ideas/concepts are hidden, often un-accessible and, as I experienced, search tools are of limited help.
+ \item The documents are written in all sorts of formats or available only in (usually proprietary) binary
+ formats. Ever tried to open a document written in MS WinWord 6.0 with customised document
+ template in a newer version of the same programme? You know then what I am talking about.
+ \item Reusing the ideas/concepts, once found in a document and managed to open that very document,
+ usually involves huge amount of re-formatting. This will produce mistakes. Ever tried to
+ use a {\scshape Bib}\TeX) generated reference list, found in a PDF file in a new article?
+ I found better ways to spend my nights and weekends (yes, I am married and I have a garden).
+ \item Over time, it can become very difficult to distinguish between different versions of a
+ document, concept and/or idea. As it happens in real life, things move on even in computing
+ and the related sciences. Documents are written for a specific historic context, which might
+ but often will not appear in their abstract (or the name of the folder their are stored in).
+ \item The above issues do apply to figures and presentations as much as to the text part of
+ documents. Reorganising my documents/figures/presentations I did find way too many duplicates.
+ I have used too many graphic software packages in the past 10 years which don't exist
+ anymore, or which do not run on the latest version of my preferred operating system. Some of
+ the figures are only available in some sort of low-resolution bitmap, rendering them useless
+ even for a non-peer-reviewed article today (the original source got 'lost', in most cases
+ because someone removed the project folder after the project was terminated).
+\end{skbnotelist}
+
+\opt{text}{\skbinput[from=rep]{story/long2}} \ No newline at end of file