Any other outliner that works nicely with HDD folders?

Posted by MadaboutDana
Dec 29, 2021 at 11:00 AM

Sounds like you’re using Windows, Karel? If so, you could also look at Notebooks (first developed for iOS, then macOS, but also available for Windows), which has a totally transparent folder/notes structure based on the file system. You can also store more or less any kind of file in Notebooks, including images, PDFs, MS-Office files, etc. etc. Notebooks will update itself in real time, and you can also drag and drop files/folders from Explorer/Finder directly into Notebooks and vice versa.

A lot of apps developed for macOS rely on the file system for storage (e.g. NotePlan, Noteship), and there are other more recent developments (Obsidian, I believe?) that do the same across multiple platforms. A good place to look would be alternativeto.net

Cheers,
Bill

karel wrote:
Hi!
>I wonder if there is an outliner that allows HDD folders to be part of
>the notes structure/tree in such a way that when files change in the HDD
>folder, the changes are reflected in the outliner’s notes structure as
>well.
>I know that Ultra Recall does it (File/Import folder/...Don’t import
>files). I know that MyBase does not do it (it can capture folder
>creating links to the files, but any further changes in the folder are
>not reflected in the database). I don’t know about InfoQube yet. I would
>love to see how anybody else does it… that is if there is any other
>software that does it.
>Any idea, pls?
>:-)
>k