Hi folks.

I was trying to walk my bro through a rather detailed procedure. I had my notes in outline form (in infoqube). I thought the instructions might be more intelligible to my brother if he were able to see them in outline form rather than continuous text.

Anyway what I did was paste the outline from Ecco Pro into a Fargo outline. Then I Fargo, I clicked on File > View in Reader. This loaded the outline in another webpage. I copied the link to the webpage, and I have pasted a short link below:

http://bit.ly/1lOuAKC

Consider the possibilities !! Lots of people don't have any kind of outliner installed, and this could be a way of sending them outlines that they could use. They might need a little instruction on how to collapse and expand items.

jim

jimspoon wrote:

Consider the possibilities !! Lots of people don't have any kind of
outliner installed, and this could be a way of sending them outlines
that they could use. They might need a little instruction on how to
collapse and expand items.

Thanks for sharing that. I didn't realise Fargo had that functionality. Good to know.

Workflowy also has a similar feature, though the additional instant hoist feature might confuse a novice user (e.g. if they accidentally click on the bullet point):

http://blog.workflowy.com/2011/08/23/share-and-collaborate-on-your-workflowy-lists/

This is very useful, thank you Jim.

It appears, from the URL created by File > View in Reader, that there are other possibilities here. The front-end of the URL is

"http://reader.smallpicture.com/?opmlurl=&quot

after the "?opmlurl=" portion we can copy a direct link to the underlying OPML file - for downloading, offline editing, etc. Also, if you wanted to use "smallpicture.com" for OPML created outside Fargo you could.

Thanks to all for these tips.The Small Picture reader looks especially useful, though for the moment expand/collapse doesn't seem to work with my Android tablet.

I use Checkvist for sharing outlines. It works well and is intuitive even for people not familiar with other outliners.

Thanks Alexander, I had forgotten about Checkvist even though I had used it before and liked it very much. I think it might be a bit more intuitive than Workflowy for sharing outlines with people.

I saw a banner on Checkvist about dropbox integration - as of yesterday all checkvist outlines (opml format) can be backed up in a zip file to dropbox.

http://checkvist.tumblr.com/post/84108859311/improved-backup-dropbox-integration-and-some-fixes

It seems that Small Picture displays a read-only version of an outline, and it might be mouse only too - it didn't seem that any keyboard shortcuts worked for expanding and collapsing the outline, will have to check on that. Because of this - checkvist would be a better solution for me. Thanks for the reminder!

I just copied an Ecco outline using Ctrl+C on a headline. Then I used the Checkvist Import command, and did a Ctrl-V to paste the imported outline into the box displayed by Checkvist. I then clicked the checkvist Import Tasks button, and the outline was imported perfectly into Checkvist. Checkvist also has good export options - including opml, and tab-indented plain text.

Good stuff.

The mobile website m.checkvist.com also works well in Chrome running on Android on my Samsung Galaxy Note II. Muy bueno.