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Posted by Dr Andus
Jun 14, 2014 at 12:18 AM
jaslar wrote:
May I ask why you’ve decided to go with Freeplane as your outliner of
>choice?
I do use other outliners for various purposes, but Freeplane is currently my outliner of choice when it comes to actually writing up a typically 10,000-word document.
I use it in mind map mode (not outline mode) with nodes going from left to right, which effectively is a horizontal outliner. I like the horizontal layout because more can be seen of the outline in a landscape mode monitor. I look at it in a second monitor on my right, as I’m writing it up in WriteMonkey in my main monitor.
I like it that you can display the notes under each node, which turns it into a single-pane outliner with inline notes (a rare breed). I’ve also assigned some icons to some keyboard shortcuts, so it’s very easy to number, check off, or highlight as important an individual node. I check nodes off with a big red X icon as I write them up, and it’s satisfying to see the progress.
>But it does seem a remarkably flexible tool, bridging the gap between
>dashboard, file manager, link manager, mind map, and outliner. Is that
>your point?
Yes, it can be used as a very minimalistic mind mapper/outliner (I’ve found almost every other mind mapper too garish visually), while at the same time it gives you huge flexibility in customising it. But I basically strip it down to look as minimalistic as possible. And yes, it’s so easy to drag and drop files into it, link from it to external applications, and now even link back into it.
I’m only just scratching the surface…
Posted by Dr Andus
Jun 14, 2014 at 12:35 AM
Jon Polish wrote:
> Export improvements
I see they’ve added OPML now as an export option. That’s good news too. Hopefully that means that inline notes also get included in the OPML file. But it doesn’t seem to be possible to import an OPML file, as far as I can see it.
Posted by Dr Andus
Jun 17, 2014 at 10:02 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>I see they’ve added OPML now as an export option. That’s good news too.
>Hopefully that means that inline notes also get included in the OPML
>file.
I just tried this. It doesn’t look like the inline notes get exported with the OPML file. That’s too bad.
I’ve also just tried importing a .mm file into Bonsai, and the only thing that gets imported as a note are links. I thought this worked in the past. I wonder if something has changed in the file format now, so that links get converted into notes during export.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Jun 17, 2014 at 10:29 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>I use it in mind map mode (not outline mode) with nodes going from left
>to right, which effectively is a horizontal outliner. I like the
>horizontal layout because more can be seen of the outline in a landscape
>mode monitor.
How do you do that?
Posted by Dr Andus
Jun 17, 2014 at 10:42 PM
Franz Grieser wrote:
>How do you do that?
Sorry, what do you mean? I’m just using the default setup I think, except that I only allow nodes to go towards the right from the first main node, as opposed to going in all directions, as mind maps tend to do.