Shape-based outline vs. text-based outline, which is better?

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Posted by Edwin Yip
Apr 18, 2010 at 04:34 PM

Thanks for the comments, and honestly I didn’t expect you don’t like the graphical visual style as opposed to me, maybe because I’m a visual guy….

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Posted by critStock
Apr 18, 2010 at 07:47 PM

I agree with Chris to the letter. The shapes mostly just add clutter. They do help me read across, to know which icons are attached to which item, but that could be done much less obtrusively by lightly shading every other row, as Chris suggests.
Cheers,
David

Posted by Edwin Yip
Apr 19, 2010 at 11:38 AM

Thank you all for the comments! I’ve added an option for choosing the visual style by the user.

I’m glad I have asked the question, it’s true that “customers think different” ;)

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Apr 19, 2010 at 12:48 PM

Edwin, you may find that we are not so typical customers; as far as I know most of us have grown up using text based outliners and many of us still do. I think that Grandview is still considered the closest to the holy grail of outliners by most people here.

That said, I also prefer the text approach as least cluttered, even though I tend to appreciate more visually attractive approaches in order to use in presentations. I think that both versions would benefit from icons being smaller (about the size of a capital letter) and/or more spacing between the rows.

Posted by Edwin Yip
Apr 20, 2010 at 02:45 AM

Hi Alexander,

I appreciate your comments, using smaller icons and larger line spacing are really good ideas, I’ll definitely try it! Thank you.

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Edwin Yip
Writing Outliner for Word- Turn MS Word into a full-featured outliner software
http://WritingOutliner.com

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Edwin, you may find that we are not so typical customers; as far as I know most of us have
>grown up using text based outliners and many of us still do. I think that Grandview is
>still considered the closest to the holy grail of outliners by most people
>here.
> >That said, I also prefer the text approach as least cluttered, even though I
>tend to appreciate more visually attractive approaches in order to use in
>presentations. I think that both versions would benefit from icons being smaller
>(about the size of a capital letter) and/or more spacing between the rows.

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