MyInfo and Grandview

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Outliners.com Message ID: 4728

Posted by 100341.2151
2005-12-16 20:17:24

From: The Department of Useless Knowledge

MyInfo has an import filter (.HEAD) that will import older outliner files (More, Thinktank, Ready!, Grandview, and PC-Outline, etc.). When I tried it out some time ago it didn’t work very reliably with Grandview files, but made some errors.

The latest version, however, seems to import even long and complex Grandview files very well. Because headlines in GV tend to be longer than MyInfo’s document titles, there is frequent spillover from MyInfo’s document tree into its Editor pane, but that is the only problem.

Just export from GV as a ThinkTank 2.x file. The resulting text can be worked on in MyInfo and exported back to GV using MyInfo’s .HEAD export filter. This time, though, make sure to use the file extension for Ready! (rdy), not ThinkTank, as GV does not seem to recognize the latter’s extension for some reason.

MyInfo files can be exported to MS Word, but not as “active” outlines, so this is not a practicable way of getting GV files into Word’s outliner (for that purpose, use either Inspiration or NoteMap). Even as a means of getting text from GV into Word, it does not work very well, since the aforementioned headline spillover also results in a lot of duplication of titles in the Word file.

AFAIK, there is little value in this whole exercise, other than seeing what a complex GV file looks like in a two-pane “outliner”. However, as it is very easy to move stuff around in MyInfo, and comments can be attached to the individual document titles (aka headlines), it does provide a different perspective on a complex GV file - and this can sometimes be helpful.

Derek

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