...so Adobe have quietly added a new update to Premiere Pro: the Freeform Project Panel.
https://theblog.adobe.com …ct-panel-in-premiere-pro/
What it is is a way of assembling your footage using a simple "drag and drop" interface. You can assemble rough-cuts in order like a flow chart in any way you wish, review it, set in and out points and save different layouts. Its a game-changer (for me at least) because I think very visually, and being able to lay-out the footage like this is exactly what I've always wanted to do. Its going to save me an incredible amount of time. Still playing around with it, and while I'd love to see stuff like annotations (I'm sure they will add that to future releases), but very impressed.
And when I went to see what other people were saying about it it turns out that I'm the only person on the net who is excited by this, so I thought I'd come share my excitement here 
And as a bonus: the latest release is very stable, and hasn't crashed once on my aging computer! (So far!)
