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What if you were instead able to show the nesting of plots, just like is done with topics?
Any sub-plot would be nested beneath its containing plot. We would use a tree view approach, just like with topics, that allows expanding and collapsing.
The exception to the rule would be if a sub-plot belongs to a different group from its parent. In this case, the sub-plot would be shown separately in its designated group. The reason for this exception is that many GMs will have "umbrella" plots that weave together assorted sub-plots, and a fully integrated story could easily end up with a large number of plots nested under one top-level parent. That's not so useful either. So we would break up plots into their groupings, giving users a way to weave together all their plots but still keep them broken up cleanly into meaningful groupings.
The reason we don't currently do this is that a sub-plot can theoretically be reference by multiple containing plots. This is very rare, though. So we could simply treat sub-plots with multiple "parents" specially by just putting them alone in their group and have a better solution for 99% of plots.
What do you think? Would this be a better solution? It seems like it to me.
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