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Posted by exatty95
Oct 29, 2012 at 06:42 PM
Always tempted by cross-platform programs but wary of ones that don’t work on iPads. For a user of Evernote,TheBrain, and SimpleNote/ResophNotes, is there anything about Notecase Pro that really stands out? I’m not a power user, so scripting capabilities aren’t meaningful to me.
Thanks for any guidance.
Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 29, 2012 at 07:43 PM
I like the easy Bonsai import. I could see this as a companion to Bonsai, for doing some more sophisticated ordering of an outline using the “mark and gather” function (which sadly I can’t test in the trial version), cloning etc.
But is there a way to display some icons in a column to show which outline items have notes? I poked around in the column settings but couldn’t find anything.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 29, 2012 at 09:06 PM
exatty95 wrote:
>Always tempted by cross-platform programs but wary of ones that don’t work on iPads.
I don’t expect Notecase Pro to be available for the iPad anytime soon. Already the Androis app has been a major challenege for Miro and it still has a long way to go to get the functionality one would expect.
>For a user of Evernote,TheBrain, and SimpleNote/ResophNotes, is there anything
>about Notecase Pro that really stands out?
What stands out is that it is a “classic” two-pane outliner, with most of the strengths and weaknesses this tool format entails. None of the programs you mentioned are really outliners, which would make me suspect that you probably don’t miss such a tool, otherwise you would already have chosen one out of the multitude of Windows offerings available. I would say that TheBrain can cover most of the uses of NCpro, even if the organisation looks very different visually. So if you are happy wth TheBrain, which is also cross-platform, there’s probably not much reason to look further.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 29, 2012 at 09:22 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>But is there a way to
>display some icons in a column to show which outline items have notes? I poked around in
>the column settings but couldn’t find anything.
In reality, all outline items (‘nodes’) have notes, even though they may be empty. As far as I know there isn’t a way to show on the outline/columns which nodes’ notes actually have content.
Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 29, 2012 at 09:43 PM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>In reality, all outline items (‘nodes’) have notes, even though they may
>be empty. As far as I know there isn’t a way to show on the outline/columns which nodes’
>notes actually have content.
Thanks for that. I’m a bit surprised as I would have thought that with all those formats that can import items with notes (especially OPML and Bonsai), some existing users would have come across the need to see where the notes are in a very large imported outline.
It seems that such a function might be more common in one-pane outliners (such as Bonsai) than in two-pane outliners. I just noticed that WhizFolders doesn’t indicate either whether a note is empty (although Scrivener does).
Would you have any specific suggestions as to how NC could be used as a companion to Bonsai (or other one-pane outliners that can export OPML)? I’m getting a vague idea that NC could be inserted in the writing workflow somewhere between Bonsai and Scrivener as an intermediary, to organise the outline further and add some more meat onto the skeleton?