The ultimate outliner

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jan 16, 2013 at 12:00 PM

shatteredmindofbob wrote:
> Oh, and OPML support, so I can pass the outline around other apps.

Brainstorm is able to export OPML, though I haven’t tested its compliance. Personally, I find the Tab Indented Text format as the most useful for moving information around outliners, including mindmappers. The downside is that Tab Indented Text does not differentiate between outline titles and inline text.

A good tool for transcribing files is Notecase which supports the largest number of formats I am aware of. I believe that the free version supports such conversions.

Re the original thread question, after so many years working with different tools, I am less interested in seeing more operational features being added, than in the interoperability of different applications. This is becoming more essential for me as more of my products need to be published online. As an example, in the past I found The Journal’s ability to publish directly to CMSs like WordPress and Blogger a very clever addition; unfortunately, the program overall was not what I needed.

That said, an editable outline view in Brainstorm would be nice.