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Posted by yosemite
Jan 11, 2014 at 08:34 PM
As I said in ‘outliner of giants’, speed is the number one feature for me.
Search is second.
I find “search as you type” and especially “filter as you type” to be extraordinary features. They are so useful and frequently used (for me) that they dwarf other considerations.
I love workflowy and noteliner’s implementation. For a quick understanding, see the latest blog post about using multiple ***** for prioritization:
http://blog.workflowy.com/2014/01/10/how-to-use-and-and-for-prioritization-awesomeness/
It may be hard to understand without witnessing it in action, but it is awesome. Even more awesome in Noteliner since NL is a hundred times faster than workflowy (note that workflowy is 10 times faster than most other web apps).
I love OneNote also for its extreme power, flexibility, and even customization (with Onetastic). But while it has a sort of search-as-you-type, with varying search contexts (this page, this section, everything), it doesn’t filter. At all. And it doesn’t focus/hoist.
I also love Excel and have toyed with using it for outlining but it is cumbersome to put it mildly. However for tabular lists it is unsurpassed, especially with slicers.
Anyway, does anyone know which other outliners which have outstanding search-as-you-type and filter-as-you-type, like workflowy and Noteliner?
Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 11, 2014 at 11:46 PM
yosemite wrote:
>Anyway, does anyone know which other outliners which have outstanding
>search-as-you-type and filter-as-you-type, like workflowy and Noteliner?
The filter of the Outline pane in ConnectedText is very fast. Surfulater also has one (though it’s probably not an outliner in the classical sense), but it’s not as fast, once it’s got several hundred records.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Jan 12, 2014 at 10:59 PM
>Anyway, does anyone know which other outliners which have outstanding search-as-you-type and filter-as-you-type, like workflowy and Noteliner?
InfoSelect comes to mind. But I don’t recommend it anymore, as a) it became a feature-stuffed monster and b) development is appears to have come to a halt.
Franz
Posted by Jon Polish
Jan 12, 2014 at 11:52 PM
InfoQube for one.
Jon
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jan 13, 2014 at 03:01 PM
Funnily enough, good ole’ Tomboy has a rather good search function. Not only does it do the ‘search as you type’ thing, it lists the number of matches in each note and, once you open a specific note, highlights search results AND allows you to move from one ‘hit’ to the next (and back again) inside the note using a neat little in-note search box (prefilled with your search request).
I’ve been reminded of Tomboy by the recent appearance of TomBox on iOS and Android - a simple but pleasing (and FREE) utility that allows you to view Tomboy notes on your iOS/Android device.
Mind you, installing Tomboy on Windows is a bit of a PITA. But easy to do in Linux.