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Posted by Lucine
Nov 9, 2023 at 10:38 AM
Hello,
Do you guys know an outliner (windows or web) where you can decide beforehand what the formatting will be for a given level, then when you’re at that level, it automatically applies the formatting? I only know of 2 pieces of software that do this. They’re great in their own ways but suffer from being very old and not maintained. The first one is Outline4D, but it’s outdated and expensive.
The second one is Noteliner, which is very nice and has some great features like a navigation bar to parts of the outline, tagging that works as a filter, etc etc. But it’s also quite limited due to being outdated. In this software, you can preset the styles you want to be applied to each level, then it automatically does this. There’s also color that can be applied which is very useful indeed.
As an extra, one thing that you can do in neither of these that I would also like to be able to is to paste images along with text. But finding both these features in one currently active good outliner is not very realistic I suppose. So if there are any other outliners which ONLY have this feature, that would be nice. Workflowy enables this currently IIRC, and dynalist in the pro version, but neither of these worked out for me because workflowy gets messy, dynalist only allows small amount of text per page, after that the text starts overflowing out of the white page borders into the margins which is very crude and I won’t be getting the pro version of this.
Does anyone have any recommendations, comments, or critiques?
Posted by Cyganet
Nov 9, 2023 at 12:17 PM
InfoQube has this feature
Posted by Amontillado
Nov 9, 2023 at 12:54 PM
OmniOutliner has per-level styles. They are quirky but once you see how they work they do what they are supposed to.
You can’t save OmniOutliner styles, so you can’t save a particular setup and then apply it to another outline.
Not an uncommon shortfall. Apple Pages can’t save its styles to a style library, for example, and that’s a crying shame.
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Nov 9, 2023 at 02:48 PM
Amontillado wrote:
>OmniOutliner has per-level styles. They are quirky but once you see how they work they do what they are supposed to.
>You can’t save OmniOutliner styles, so you can’t save a particular setup and then apply it to another outline.
>Not an uncommon shortfall. Apple Pages can’t save its styles to a style library, for example, and that’s a crying shame.
As Cyganet mentioned, IQ has full support for outline styles. They are easy to setup and are database wide. They can be applied to any outline and changing from one outline style to another is easy, simply select it from a dropdown list.
It is possible to override the style formatting, item per item or ignore it altogether.
Details here: https://infoqubeim.com/drupal5/node/3489
w.r.t. pasting images, it is also supported. There are a few display options, but alas, no image resize in the outline. The associated rich-text document does support resizing images however
Pierre Paul Landry
IQ Designer
Posted by moritz
Nov 9, 2023 at 03:43 PM
Microsoft Word can do this really well, using styles. Works across Normal/Draft/Outline views. Use ‘Themes’ to switch between ‘working’ styles and print/output styles as needed. Record macro and put on the menu bar if single click or hotkey switch between styles is desired.
Lucine wrote:
Hello,
>
>Do you guys know an outliner (windows or web) where you can decide
>beforehand what the formatting will be for a given level, then when
>you’re at that level, it automatically applies the formatting? I only
>know of 2 pieces of software that do this. They’re great in their own
>ways but suffer from being very old and not maintained. The first one is
>Outline4D, but it’s outdated and expensive.
>
>The second one is Noteliner, which is very nice and has some great
>features like a navigation bar to parts of the outline, tagging that
>works as a filter, etc etc. But it’s also quite limited due to being
>outdated. In this software, you can preset the styles you want to be
>applied to each level, then it automatically does this. There’s also
>color that can be applied which is very useful indeed.
>
>As an extra, one thing that you can do in neither of these that I would
>also like to be able to is to paste images along with text. But finding
>both these features in one currently active good outliner is not very
>realistic I suppose. So if there are any other outliners which ONLY have
>this feature, that would be nice. Workflowy enables this currently IIRC,
>and dynalist in the pro version, but neither of these worked out for me
>because workflowy gets messy, dynalist only allows small amount of text
>per page, after that the text starts overflowing out of the white page
>borders into the margins which is very crude and I won’t be getting the
>pro version of this.
>
>Does anyone have any recommendations, comments, or critiques?
>
>