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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 18, 2012 at 06:07 PM
tradercclee wrote:
>Maybe I’ll find an outliner that easily
>reads/saves tabbed plain text files, and I’ll use this with ResophNotes.
That was the idea of my proposal for EmEditor. You wouldn’t even need to save the file, just copy/paste the outline content to your note in ResophNotes.
One thing I like about EmEditor is that you can customise what character you use to denote outline levels, so you can use something other than tab which takes a lot of space and can’t be used inside some editing environments.
Posted by tradercclee
Aug 18, 2012 at 06:27 PM
Thanks, I’ll check out EmEditor now.
Other candidates for this:
OPML editor (I use this editor a lot): http://home.opml.org/
- I can copy/paste outlines in and out of the OPML file
NotePad++
- free Plaintext Editor that supports code folding. (I can define keyword to make folding happen)
(It’s not a true Outliner view though…)
Posted by tradercclee
Aug 18, 2012 at 07:32 PM
Figured out a good solution.
Alex: Tried EmEditor’s outline mode and found it too rudimentary. Thanks for the suggestion.
This is what I’m going with:
First, have this free program installed:
Text Editor Anywhere
http://www.listary.com/text-editor-anywhere
This is what Text Editor Anywhere does:
When you’re editing text in a text field (ResophNotes, ConnectedText, Gmail, or anything else), you can press Windows-A.
This command copies the entire text field and opens up a new temp file in your favorite text editor (user-defined).
You can then edit the text in your defined editor.
When you’re done, you save the temp file and exit your favorite editor.
After you do this, the new text is pasted back into the original text field you’re working with.
Pretty handy little tool.
So, I made Text Editor Anywhere open up the free OPML editor when I press Windows-A.
When I’m editing ResophNotes notes, I shoot the text to the OPML editor.
I then use OPML to write notes.
The tree outliner format works great.
When I’m done, a tab-delimited text is shot back to ResophNotes and saved as a plain text file.
Works great!
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 21, 2012 at 11:08 PM
Glad you found a workable solution and most grateful for the link top Text Editor Anywhere. I didn’t know such a utility even existed but it is just what I need for my text editing needs. Brilliant!