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Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 13, 2013 at 07:03 PM
It’s also reminded me that Literature & Latte’s ‘Scapple’ is available for Windows, albeit as a beta only. Okay, okay, so it’s a kind of mindmapping tool. But for writers!
Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 13, 2013 at 07:08 PM
And I’ve just discovered Headspace on iOS - the very epitome of a three-dimensional outliner. Oh lord, I feel a CRIMP coming on!
Posted by Dr Andus
Sep 13, 2013 at 09:06 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
>If anybody can think of something convincingly outliner-y that works
>vertically AND horizontally, why not step up and tell us about it?
This topic has also come up here:
http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/771/20
The suggestions were TreeSheets and B-liner.
There is also Outline 4D, except that they’ve implemented the horizontal index-card outline the wrong way round, turning it into another vertical one (http://www.outlinersoftware.com/messages/viewm/18059), which just doesn’t work too well.
I haven’t been able to find an outliner that can do both vertical and horizontal at a switch of the button.
For now I’m most excited about Gingko because it corrects O4D’s mistake. However, it’ not a fully-fledged horizontal outliner because it only supports 3 levels of hierarchy right now. (But they seem to be planning unlimited levels, which would be just great.)
But 3 levels are still very useful exactly because of its scrolling columns feature, which allows you to keep one hierarchy level fixed, while you can scroll much longer and detailed texts in the other two columns. It’s good for the snowballing-type text development described in their video:
http://youtu.be/J4prcx0jZ9M
Another advantage of Gingko is that it uses “cards,” so one can write full text, one is not restricted to a “headings-only” outline. Now I just wish that Gingko cards were collapsible, so that one could view them as a real titles-only outline as well.
Posted by Karthik
Feb 3, 2018 at 11:28 AM
There’s Treesheets on windows.light weight and does the job quite well. You can even pivot the views. Would be great if it exported to markdown though
Posted by Jeffery Smith
Feb 3, 2018 at 03:30 PM
Tree Outline appears to be defunct, though I still see it on the App Store under my “purchased” apps.