Forum Posts Feed
Outliner program for printing basic reports with automatic numbering
< Next Topic | Back to topic list | Previous Topic >
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 20, 2011 at 06:36 PM
Andrew Mckay wrote:
>The basic key features I need to have
>
>Print preview feature, this is important.
>I want the headings and sub-headings to be automatically numbered for me.
>The notes ( from the 2nd pane ) come in neatly below the numbered headings
>Ability to export as text.
>Able to choose parents/nodes/child nodes and just print those selected
You know, that is a completely reasonable list. In fact, I would say that’s a bare-minimum list for a basic outlining program. And yet… Is there any so-called outliner on Windows that does all this? As far as I can tell from the hour I’ve spent researching this this morning is The Guide may be the only one. And it isn’t even being developed any longer. That tells you why a lot of us suffer from CRIMP. You see, it is NOT our fault!
Every other application I’ve looked at (and I haven’t looked at all of them by any means) fails in some requirement. For example, MyInfo does not offer the printing options you’re looking for.
I was going to suggest you just use The Guide, but the problem there is that The Guide only offers a very broad RFT export, so that you will have a difficult time exporting your notes to a new application should you decide to do so in the future.
Steve Z.
Posted by Dr Andus
Jun 20, 2011 at 07:15 PM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Andrew Mckay wrote:
>>The basic key features I need to have
>>
>>Print preview
>feature, this is important.
>>I want the headings and sub-headings to be
>automatically numbered for me.
>>The notes ( from the 2nd pane ) come in neatly below
>the numbered headings
>>Ability to export as text.
>>Able to choose
>parents/nodes/child nodes and just print those selected
>
>You know, that is a
>completely reasonable list. In fact, I would say that’s a bare-minimum list for a
>basic outlining program. And yet… Is there any so-called outliner on Windows that
>does all this? As far as I can tell from the hour I’ve spent researching this this
>morning is The Guide may be the only one. And it isn’t even being developed any longer.
>That tells you why a lot of us suffer from CRIMP. You see, it is NOT our fault!
>
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.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 20, 2011 at 07:55 PM
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
Posted by jimspoon
Jun 21, 2011 at 12:33 AM
You ought to give Ecco Pro a try. It will do all that for sure. Your application sounds like something that Ecco would be very good for. Development stopped in 1997, but many users still have not found anything better. There is an “Ecco Extension” program - still in development - that greatly extends the capabilities of Ecco. There is an active Ecco Pro community that will help you.
http://forums.eccomagic.com/forum/Attachments/pre-release-Manual_Install_001.zip
user guide PDF file available here
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ecco_pro/files/
Ecco Extension 4.5.6.9 also at the same location:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ecco_pro/files/
Ecco, particularly with EccoExt, has very good cut/paste capability with other programs. Export/import is good too.
jim
Posted by Andrew Mckay
Jun 21, 2011 at 03:57 AM
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
I am going to give them all a go and will post some brief feedback on what works for my needs
Andrew