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Hierarchical outliner with the most complete writing tools?
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Posted by Derek Cater
Jun 13, 2009 at 05:44 PM
Hello, I am an archaeological consultant in Great Britain and frequently have to write reports, say, 50 to 100 pages long. I have traditionally written them in MS Word but have recently moved to a hierarchical outliner for the writing, switching to Word only for the final formatting. My current outliner of choice for writing is TreePad Business Edition, which I am very impressed with. I tried Whizfolders, but its table support was not yet adequate for my needs.
My question is, are there other hierarchical outliners that major on writing tools (fonts, formatting, bullets, etc.) that I should be considering? I do not need the ability to link to external documents and do not need fancy PIM tools (I have Mindsystems Amode for that - a wonderful programme, IMHO). Export to Word would be an advantage but, failing that, copy and paste would suffice.
Any advice on how I might indulge my CRIMPing tendencies would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Derek
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Posted by George Entenman
Jun 13, 2009 at 09:34 PM
I very rarely have to produce nice-looking documents, so I used Word for many years just for outlining. I think it does a pretty good job.
I’ve since switched to OmniOutliner, which I like better.
It sounds as of Apple iWorks Pages is probably too simplistic for you, but it has an outliner like Word’s and produces very nicely formatted documents.
hth
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 14, 2009 at 02:56 AM
Have you looked into The Journal? It is a pretty robust writing environment.
Posted by GeorgeB
Jun 14, 2009 at 03:42 AM
Although NoteMap has taken a beating from some of the guys here on this forum I’m still using it at work going on three years now. Here’s where it be found: http://www.casesoft.com/notemap/index.asp . gB
Posted by Cassius
Jun 14, 2009 at 04:20 AM
Use NoteMap at your own risk!!!
1. Be prepared to COMPLETELY lose what you’ve written if it is in a single outline item and approaches a page in length. I know, it happened to me.
2. ALL development has stopped. The developer sold it to another company and even the most trivial of fixes have not been done.
I tell you this, having once recommended it ... until I tried using it to write a book.
-cassius