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Outliner that allows you to work per hierarchy level
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Posted by Lucine
Feb 16, 2023 at 09:40 AM
Hi All,
I’m looking for a outliner-style notetaking software à la Workflowy, which allows you to nest everything in a hierarchical tree structure, but where you can select any level of hierarchy and view only items of that level separately. So for example every level 1 line can be a header, and level 2 textbook notes, then on the 3rd level you write your own comments and questions, and can separately view and export that level only. Or you decide to add things to the second level only and need an overview of all that’s in there without clutter. In Workflowy and other similar software, the entire tree hierarchy functions effectively as 1 block of text. Is there any way to accomplish what I described that you know of? It doesn’t necessarily have to be outliner software though.
There’s Gingko which can somewhat do this from a visual standpoint but that’s just a crutch.
Posted by Jon Polish
Feb 16, 2023 at 12:46 PM
You are referring to hoisting, I think. There are so many tools that have that function. InfoQube, RightNote, Whizfolders, NoteCase and Brainstorm are among some that quickly come to mind. More visual representations (mindmaps) can do this too. Freeplane, MindManager, XMind and of course, TheBrain.
Jon
Posted by Dr Andus
Feb 16, 2023 at 01:53 PM
Check out the Level Selector in Outline 4D (Win only):
https://drandus.wordpress.com/2013/01/13/outline-4d-for-drafting-and-reverse-outlining/
Posted by Dr Andus
Feb 16, 2023 at 06:51 PM
Lucine wrote:
>I’m looking for a outliner-style notetaking software à la
>Workflowy, which allows you to nest everything in a hierarchical tree
>structure, but where you can select any level of hierarchy and view only
>items of that level separately. So for example every level 1 line can be
>a header, and level 2 textbook notes, then on the 3rd level you write
>your own comments and questions, and can separately view and export that
>level only.
A less elegant solution (than Outline 4D’s built-in level selector) could be to add tags to each paragraph in WorkFlowy, such as @Level1, @Level2, @Level3 etc., and then search for those tags, and only those paragraphs would be displayed. Then you could copy and paste to export.
Posted by Jon Polish
Feb 16, 2023 at 07:25 PM
I forgot Ultra Recall
Jon
Jon Polish wrote:
You are referring to hoisting, I think. There are so many tools that
>have that function. InfoQube, RightNote, Whizfolders, NoteCase and
>Brainstorm are among some that quickly come to mind. More visual
>representations (mindmaps) can do this too. Freeplane, MindManager,
>XMind and of course, TheBrain.
>
>Jon