Sentence outliner?

Posted by Cyganet
Feb 12, 2024 at 08:32 PM

It sounds like you’re looking for semantic line breaks. They are described here: https://sembr.org/ and here: https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2012/one-sentence-per-line/

Several markup languagues support them, including Markdown. Here’s how some markdown editors handle them:

In Typora, if you write your text using semantic line breaks in source mode, they disappear in live preview mode provided you have the ‘preserve single line break’ option turned off.

You type one sentence per line in Notepad++ and use the Markdownviewer++ plugin, which can show both texts side by side.

In Obsidian, if you have ‘strict line breaks’ turned on, you can type with semantic line breaks in live preview mode and have them disappear in reading mode.

Writemonkey 3 has a toggle option (Ctrl+F8) that will switch between one sentence per line and normal text. This one has the benefit that you type normally, whereas in the previous three you have to put single line breaks between sentences.

If you have existing text that you want to break up, you can paste it in here: https://www.onesentenceperline.com/