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All I Want is a Hybrid Outliner/Text Editor
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Posted by Lucas
Mar 4, 2010 at 06:20 PM
Lucas wrote:
>
>
>Ben Morris wrote:
>>I would like something like a one-pane outliner (titles and
>text) with a second pane
>>for content linked to any node (I would settle for text here,
>though obv pictures,
>>charts, etc would be nice as well). Then I would like to be able
>to switch to a “Document
>>View” that mashes everything together with the one-pane
>information as titles and
>>summary paragraphs and the second-pane content as body
>text. Then I would like to be
>>able to edit in this view, switch back to outline view and
>have it all broken down
>>again.
>>
>>Does anything like this exist? If not, what is
>closest?
>>
>
>For simplicity, let’s call the content linked to a node a “note”
>(although it’s sometimes called a “comment”). There are a number of one-pane
>outliners for the Mac that offer the option to toggle between viewing notes “inline”
>and viewing them in a separate pane. OmniOutliner, Tao, and Process come to mind. On
>Windows, the best solution I can think of is Inspiration, although it doesn’t do
>exactly what you describe. It gives the option to show or hide notes in “Outline View”.
>When shown, however, the notes are always inline rather than in a separate pane (at
>least that’s what I remember). Inspiration also offers Diagram and Map views
>(although you can’t move between all three). In these latters views, notes show up in a
>pop-up window. It might be worth checking out. There also may well be other Windows
>solutions I’m not thinking of.
>
>If you can access a Mac, OmniOutliner also offers
>probably the most robust formatting options, such that you could, for instance,
>apply first-line indentation (and any font you like) to inline notes, making them
>look more like “body text”.
>
>Did I interpret what you’re looking for
>correctly?
>
>Lucas D
I forgot about the multimedia part. But I’m afraid I don’t have any knowledge about that.
Posted by Lucas
Mar 4, 2010 at 07:57 PM
One more thing I forgot to mention: I’m not sure, but from your description is sounds as if you may want topics and note text to show up without hierarchical indentation in the so-called “Document View”. However, with all the options I mentioned, the hierarchical indentation remains. Microsoft Words is the only option that I know of that offers both an outline view and a non-indented document view.