lightweight 2-pane outliner for breaking up text quickly

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Posted by Dr Andus
Feb 5, 2013 at 10:35 PM

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Have you tried Treepad Lite? It’s one of the grand-daddy two-pane apps
>and is pretty nimble:
>http://www.treepad.com/treepadfreeware/

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it some 6-7 yrs ago and somehow I never warmed to it. I downloaded it again and compared it to The Guide, and somehow The Guide comes across as “friendlier.” Can’t really explain it…

Posted by JohnK
Feb 5, 2013 at 11:35 PM

These days, I use Mempad to cover requirements similar to yours. Very light, two-pane, user-changeable global shortcut to launch/minimise. Ctrl+Tab to alternate focus from tree to editor, Alt+Ins to create new page/node. Quick, easy, mature and reliable. Good help file, wide range of keyboard shortcuts.

http://www.horstmuc.de/wmem.htm

Posted by Dr Andus
Feb 6, 2013 at 06:29 AM

JohnK wrote:
These days, I use Mempad to cover requirements similar to yours. Very
>light, two-pane, user-changeable global shortcut to launch/minimise.
>Ctrl+Tab to alternate focus from tree to editor, Alt+Ins to create new
>page/node. Quick, easy, mature and reliable. Good help file, wide range
>of keyboard shortcuts.
> >http://www.horstmuc.de/wmem.htm

Very nice, thanks for that! Definitely a keeper. Takes the biscuit so far as the lightest and simplest.

For my current task though I’ll stick with The Guide, as it has the added benefit of rich text formatting (nice to be able to add bold and colour highlights), and it also has the icons for nodes and checkboxes, which come in handy when dealing with text fragments that need to be revisited.

Posted by Dr Andus
Feb 6, 2013 at 07:29 AM

P.S. I wonder if it would be possible to use an AutoHotkey script to implement Scrivener for Window’s “Split with selection as title (Ctrl+Shift+K) feature in MemPad or The Guide… That would pretty much cover the whole process.

Posted by jimspoon
Feb 6, 2013 at 08:34 AM

i was just wondering, the Guide couldn’t be much good for splitting up the text ... if you do find a double-paner that has split/join functions, let us know!

would it be possible to use another tool for splitting, export to tab indented, and then import that into a double-paner?

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