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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jan 31, 2010 at 08:16 AM
There are two formats worth supporting for exchanging files among outliners: tab indented text and OPML. I have found that they make or break my own relationship with a program, because I rarely want to keep my information only in one.
They have been discussed here several times; a quick search of the terms “OPML” or “tab indented text” should bring up several applications that support each format. Most do not support both, which would be ideal.
Posted by Derek Cornish
Jan 31, 2010 at 09:42 PM
Cassius wrote:
>Derek Cornish wrote:
>>Following on from Daly’s list, I have some other
>suggestions:
>> I seem to remember that Brainstorm can import Grandview outlines, as
>can Inspiration.
>———————————
>Derek,
>What intermediate file format
>do you use to import GV outlines into Inspiration?
>Thanks!
Cassius,
No intermediate format is needed for importing GV outlines into Inspiration, but Inspiration is required as the intermediate format for any GV to MS-Word conversion.
These are Steve Cohen’s instructions on how to change GV to Inspiration (with maybe some annotations of mine). They are still somewhere in the forum database (2005) and there are earlier ones for converting PC-Outline:
In GV:
1. Change labeling to Indentation with no labels.
2. Expand the outline (View, Expand to, 99) Caution: if the outline has two or more top-level headlines, be sure to expand each one - or, create a new top level headline and demote your previously multi-top-level headlines, then expand the new single top level headline).
3. Highlight (Mark) the entire outline. Easy way: Crtl Home to upper corner, then F6 start block, Crtl End to end of file. Then export using Paragraph option.
4. Add .txt as the file extension.
5. In Inspiration, open the .txt. file - no need to import nor convert; Inspiration automatically converts it from txt to its own .isp format.
The outline format is well preserved - 99%. A few headlines were split; or converted to a note; some empty notes were created; in only one case out of hundreds of lines was a headline promoted for no apparent reason. But most important - I don’t think I lost any data.
Derek
Posted by Cassius
Feb 1, 2010 at 02:37 AM
Derek,
I really am entering senility.
-c
Posted by Derek Cornish
Feb 1, 2010 at 04:47 AM
Cassius,
I look at it this way: after a lifetime’s work my brain is full, and for it to continue functioning stuff has to be jettisoned to make room for more.
Derek