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Posted by Sam Hawksworth
Dec 15, 2010 at 08:18 PM
Hello,
Hi,
I’m the developer of the freeware program Noteliner ( http://web.me.com/hawksworth/Noteliner/Main.html ) and have recently finished polishing up version 2.7. I’m done for a little while but want to start thinking about what version 3 could be. My goal is to keep Noteliner fast and simple but I’m wondering if there are key features that might make it worthy of a 3.0 designation. The ideas that I have or have received are:
- The ability to save off branches of the outline including implementing a “Send To” function so users could send parts of their outline to others or archive them. Probably also good to be able to append Noteliner files.
- Move to multiple document format (it was designed to have a single doc because each branch could be thought of as its own document, so in a sense, if used as I originally anticipated, there need only be one file. However, I’ve since learned that others don’t use it that way.)
- Encryption - this could slow down autosaves a bit, but also make the program less ‘immediate’ if you have to enter a password.
- HTML export has received a few mentions
- Ability to embed links
- Improved formating, such as setting font sizes for different levels, or allowing automatic insertion of blank lines under certain conditions to improve readability.
Would be interested in any thoughts that could take Noteliner “to the next level” while keeping it simple and not placing additional burden on users.
Thanks!
Sam
Posted by clacha
Dec 16, 2010 at 12:43 PM
Why not multi-parent items ?
To avoid being just another one outliner….
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Dec 16, 2010 at 08:24 PM
I’m sure you didn’t mean it exactly this way, but let me chime in and say that Noteliner is much more than “just another outliner.” As I said in an earlier comment, it is more like a hybrid of Brainstorm and TaskPaper (a Mac app). It is a simple, but elegant application. Which is not to say that your suggestion isn’t a good one.
Steve
clacha wrote:
>Why not multi-parent items ?
>To avoid being just another one outliner….
>
Posted by Achim
Dec 16, 2010 at 09:29 PM
Hi Sam,
like noteliner very much so far and would really appreciate, if it’s going to be developed further.
You already mentioned most of the suggestions I would have had - especially hyperlinks and formatting.
There’s one left:
view all items of a certain level and the ability to print or save this view.
best regards
Achim
Posted by Sara
Dec 17, 2010 at 12:58 AM
I hadn’t updated Noteliner in quite a while and just went over to get 2.7. I’m very happy with the text export option.
Of the ideas you mentioned below, I’d love to see HTML or OPML export and a bullet-level “send to” option that would enable the user to “tear off” a portion of an outline and send it to a text file or to an e-mail.
Less important usability suggestions would be a built-in keyboard shortcut cheat sheet that you can access with a couple of keystrokes, and possibly the ability to change to a terminal-style color scheme (a la Q10; http://www.baara.com/q10/).
Thank you for building and maintaining this! This is such a great piece of software in a small, portable package—- as fast and as simple to use as writing notes in a text file, but with so much more power.
-Sara