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Outliner where you can preset color/formatting based on level
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Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Nov 11, 2023 at 04:00 PM
Lucas wrote:
>By the way, does anyone remember how there used to be a somewhat unusual outliner where on the website it showed everything in outline form but styled sort of like colored boxes of text within other-colored boxes of text? I think it began with a ‘B’, but I can’t find it…
Could it be TreeSheets?
https://strlen.com/treesheets/
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Nov 11, 2023 at 04:04 PM
Friendly reminder to all Apple fanboys.. Original post specified Windows or web ;-)
Amontillado wrote:
Oh, good tip. Definitely a good solution.
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>What I like, though, is for a document to be independent of any
>particular style choices of the moment.
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>Probably more than is needed in an outlining tool, I admit, but an
>absolute requirement for my happiness in a word processor.
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>Scrivener has massive flexibility in its compile feature. I get pretty
>much the same functionality, covering the bases I need, by flipping to
>different style libraries in my word processor as needs arise.
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>I have fond memories of OmniOutliner. Great product. One of the reasons
>I started using other outliners was Omni doesn’t seem to care about
>OmniOutliner as much as I do. A shame.
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>And personal weakness. I stopped using OmniOutliner because there was
>something shiny on the other side of the fence. I admit it.
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>satis wrote:
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>>I do this in OmniOutliner by saving an otherwise empty outline I use as
>>a template with new outlines, using Save As.
Posted by Lucas
Nov 11, 2023 at 05:03 PM
Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
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>Could it be TreeSheets?
>https://strlen.com/treesheets/
You’re right that TreeSheets is somewhat similar to what I described, but it’s not the one I’m trying to think of. The one I remember had a very yellow-themed homepage. I was thinking maybe the name involved the word “bee”, but I can’t find it. But I don’t mean to veer away from the original question. I was just thinking of this other outliner as an example of the use of different colors for different outline levels.
Posted by Lucas
Nov 11, 2023 at 05:13 PM
Ah, I found it, thanks to Pierre’s old list of outliners. The one I was thinking of is Buzz:
Pierre’s list is still available here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130518075950/http://www.editgrid.com/user/pplandry/List_of_Outliners
Buzz’s visual approach to conveying an outline is very interesting, but I never actually used it…
Posted by Lucas
Nov 12, 2023 at 06:05 PM
Cyganet wrote:
Some Obsidian themes (like Aura and AnuPpuccin) have different colour
>settings for different heading levels, so you don’t have to start from
>scratch with CSS.
Turns out this is also possible in LogSeq:
https://discuss.logseq.com/t/css-mod-colorful-indentation-lines/229/6
Not sure if it’s possible in RemNote or Roam.
(One of the cool features with InfoQube is that you can combine multiple approaches, such as outline styles and conditional formatting.)