Noteliner Looking Forward

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Posted by Sam Hawksworth
Dec 17, 2010 at 01:56 AM

Thanks Steve! I appreciate the kind words. Sara, I’ve often toyed with the idea of multiple parent items, and frankly it might not be too difficult to implement. Originally my thought was that you want a daily todo list, and then also have the todos in the individual projects, so that could be two parents. I used “todo” lists and a todo view to solve that problem. I felt that, in practice, you would end up with a ball of spaghetti and find it too cumbersome to maintain a multiple-parent outline like that. Noteliner I think is best suited to keeping track of project todos and information, and I’m not sure how multiple parents helps with that. I’d be interested to hear of any scenarios where multiple parents would solve a difficulty.

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Dec 17, 2010 at 02:25 PM

Sam,

Here are two minor suggestions:

1. Some control on the look of items in various states. For example, I find the gray color for completed items too light. I’d like to be able to adjust that.
2. Some optional controls for text exports. Specifically, I’d like to be able to select a different numbering scheme, and would like to include tab indents, the way a copy and paste works.

Steve

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Dec 17, 2010 at 02:28 PM

BTW, I don’t see any need to add encryption. That seems like a needless feature.

Steve

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Dec 24, 2010 at 04:07 PM

Hi Sam,

Thanks for a very good program and for the feedback request!

I agree with most of the suggestions already made; some, like encryption, wouldn’t be useful to me but as long as it is optional it’s fine.

My suggestions:

- Import and Export from/to tab indented text and/or OPML. These seem to be the two most popular formats for transferring data between outliners; tab indented text in particular can be copy/pasted to and from most mind mapping programs maintaining the hierarchy.

- Some keyboard shortcuts for navigation (drilling down and up) and expanding/collapsing would be useful.

Regarding multiple parents, what is often referred to as ‘clones’, the argument for their use in a to-do list is rather simple: a specific task may belong to more than one projects.

Cheers!
Alexander

Sam Hawksworth wrote:
>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.

Posted by Achim
Dec 27, 2010 at 09:46 PM

Hi Sam,

while testing Noteliner for story-writing, I thought about some additional features, which might add to its usability:

- copy/cut and paste in the context menu

- Export as textfile with tab indent instead of numbering (already mentioned but to push its priority :-))

- Bullett choice menu with icons instead of numbers

- Customizable bullett icons/customizable icons

I agree to the other posters that encryption might be of minor priority, since there are lots of simple and advanced solutions to work with encrypted files.

Finally something that could be considered as a little bug - at least by some european users:

Words can be marked by doubleclicking, perfect - unless they contain umlauts, accents or other special characters. Then the mark ends at the special character.

Thanks again for this nice piece of software. Think it’s got a great potential, especially as there are so few alternatives for Windows.

Best regards

Achim

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