Advances in two-panel outliners

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Outliners.com Message ID: 2008

Posted by srdiamond15
2004-07-06 21:13:39

Just a half a year ago, every hierarchical organizer was pretty much the same. Between TreeNote, Jot, Keynote and the like there were no strikig features on which to base a choice. In the last few months, this has changed.

The new features included in some of the newer pims include:

The ability to select multiple discontiguous items;

The ability to open multiple windows in a tabbed interface;

The ability to insert tables in a note;

And the ability to insert a Microsoft Office object within a note, so as to incorporate documents directly and to use many advanced formatting features on such OLE objects.

Some programs now provide all of this functionality for about $35: TexNotes (http://www.gemx.com); InfoRecall (http://www.phantech.com); and I think InfoSelect, which I haven’t tried (http://www.micrologic.com)

ADM 3, still not fully born—-a few months ago so advanced-seeming that it seemed to deserve a category to itself (and still does when it comes to outlining as such)has not kept up as will in its database aspects. Of the advanced features I mentioned, it lacks tables; displays a multiple document interface only part way; and incorporates OLE objects only externally, through its browser, which itself has a single page interface.

srdiamond

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