Outliner program for printing basic reports with automatic numbering

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Posted by Andrew Mckay
Jun 21, 2011 at 04:04 AM

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Dr Andus wrote:
>>I wonder if Whizfolders could do something like this? Admittedly I
>haven’t
>>tried but I vaguely recall that it does have a preview function and that the
>items were
>>numbered.
> >Excellent suggestion. Whizfolders does, indeed, print
>the note text beneath numbered titles. The only issue I can see is that I haven’t found a
>way to get the note headers to print left-justified: they only seem to print centered
>on the page.
> >Here’s the URL for Whizfolders:
>http://www.whizfolders.com/
> >Steve

I like the look of whizfolders. The center justified printing on note headings is fixed in Tools-General/Settings-Printing Multiple Topics and then un click the centered box near the bottom.

Strange option as a default ( the centered option )!

After doing the above the print looks really neat but I am battling to get the export to rtf to look the same or similar to the print ( I print to pdf to get a print preview and the pdf does look good )

I’ll spend some more time on the rtf export

Andrew

Posted by Dr Andus
Jun 21, 2011 at 10:09 AM

Andrew Mckay wrote:
>Thanks Dominik,JB,Steve Z,Dr Andus, jimspoon
> >I have downloaded UltraRecall,
>Writing Outliner,my info and whizfolders
>Will download ecco later on . That should
>keep me out of trouble for a while
> Another option might be Natara Bonsai 5 Desktop Edition (http://www.natara.com/bonsai/Index.cfm). There is a print preview and can number the outline automatically. But I don’t know if there is a way to print certain branches only (it might require copy and paste into a new file).

Posted by Adrian
Jun 21, 2011 at 06:07 PM

Hi Andrew,

Goalenforcer Hyperfocus can generate a MS Word report with headings and sub headings automatically numbered for you (including goals, multiple level of sub-goals, tasks).

You can see a sample at:
http://www.goalenforcer.com/mswordoutlinereport.html

Adrian

Posted by Zman
Jun 22, 2011 at 02:35 AM

Citavi can be used in this manner - takes a little thinking to get to the printing a hoist part - butit can be done.

zman

Posted by Andrew Mckay
Jun 26, 2011 at 04:20 PM

OK some very brief feed back from a few PIM/Outliner software I have tried in the last week.

I only focused on the numbering and the export capability of exporting to rtf .As much as I wanted to eliminate the need for editing in word I have to accept that some is needed for me produce an acceptable report. So I placed a lot of emphasis on keeping the editing in word to an absolute minimum.

I did try to give each software a fair chance and I may well have not found the way to export the way I wanted to, so any mistakes or oversights on my side I would appreciate being corrected. All the comments below refer only to the exporting to rtf only

Whizfolders - pretty good but no automatic numbering that I could see
the guide- very good with excellent automatic numbering
todolist - no rtf export. txt export did have good numbering but with annoying square brackets around the article text
essentialpim - very strange export could not work it out
myinfo - good with automatic numbering
smereka - very strange exporting nodes in separate files from all I could see
noteskeeper - pretty good but no automatic numbering that I could see
notecase - good with automatic numbering
mynoteskeeper - pretty good but no automatic numbering that I could see
the journal - no automatic numbering
treepad business - good with automatic numbering

Next step I spent most of my time looking at myinfo,notecase and treepad business. I could not see that much difference and they all had a similar learning curve. I found that I was doing the least amount of word editing in treepad business so that was the choice I have made. I will admit to being impatient and I could well have rushed this one but I need to stick to one for now, see if it works for me and start using the software to help and assist me in my work.

Thanks to everyone who made suggestions. There were a few I did not try and have earmarked for future rainy days

Andrew

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