ConnectedText now is an Outliner with Footnote Function

Posted by Manfred
Oct 2, 2007 at 05:25 PM

Hello Chris,

I am using AppleWorks in Windows (for now). I don’t think Pages works Windows. Eventually I will probably use a Word Processor that works on the Mac only, and run Parallels or Fusion to run Windows from the Mac (mainly to have access to ConnectedText and Above & Beyond, which I prefer over TimeTo).

The outliner is a separate VIew in ConnectedText that looks and works like a single-pane outliner. Collapse and expand are available. You just double-click on the entry line. You can do pretty much everything that you can do in TkOutliner. The outliner files are saved as separate files in ConnectedText

One of things hat makes it most interesting is the way it interacts with the rest of ConnectedText, as you can drag and drop topic names into the outliner and jump from these outliner items to the corresponding topics. When you use it in this way, it behaves like a two-pane outliner. So, you have the best of both worlds.

I actually bought Voodoopad and imported all 5000 entries I have in ConnectedText into it (using Devonthink as a way station to transform them from html to rtf and rtfd. Worked like a charm; even the wiki links work.

What I like about Voodoopad is the graphical interface and that it behaves very much like ConnectedText. One of the things I don’t like—and this is an important thing to me—is the anemic search function of Voodoopad. It does not allow regular or full text searches, and this alone would be enough to stay with ConnectedText. But outlining and especially the footnote capability that in the future will allow export of automatic footnotes to rtf is also important.

Another thing I like about ConnectedText after this experience is how easily it allows one to export one’s stuff. (And what I don’t like about Windows is how difficult it is to move rtf from one application to the next. The Mac is WAY ahead on that as well.)

Manfred