Output to web from outliner/information management software

Posted by Graham Rhind
Sep 23, 2019 at 08:53 AM

There’s a part of one of my websites that I would like to move out of my traditional web creation software and into a more content-orientated environment which would allow me to output that data to the web in a structured manner. The data is several thousand web links. I’d like to pick this forum’s members’ brains to hear any ideas on which software to use.

I’ve done this in the past, using:

- TheBrain version 6 (later versions have dropped the ability to output to the web and I’m not holding my breath that version 11 will reverse this). I want to avoid using software which isn’t being actively updated.

- ConnectText - this works well and I have a number of sites produced with it (e.g. https://www.grcdi.nl/gsb/global sourcebook.html and https://www.pidm.net) but again, without active development, I want to avoid investing too much time into it.

- DocxManager - this is a new software, following up on WritingOutliner, so at least I know it’s being actively developed, but I haven’t had a chance yet to test it fully and the output possibilities are currently somewhat limited. As most of you agree, I think it’s wiser to use software according to what it can do now rather than what it might be able to do in the future.

Does anybody have any other ideas? Must be Windows, preferably not cloud based.

Thanks in advance!

Graham