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Posted by RickFencer
Nov 9, 2014 at 06:20 PM
It looks great. Would love to have an Android v
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Nov 10, 2014 at 04:16 PM
I broke down and purchased a copy of OutlineEdit. And I’m glad I did. I’ve written a brief review at my blog:
http://welcometosherwood.wordpress.com/2014/11/08/outlineedit-is-on-sale-this-week-a-brief-review/
Mostly, you’ll see, I agree with MadAboutDana. Perhaps the major item we differ on is that I’m not so thrilled with the implementation of checkboxes. Ideally, an outliner should allow for selectively applying the checkboxes to individual topics. This matters to me because a checkbox is indicates that something needs action. My outlines are rarely composed entirely of tasks. I want to quickly scan my outline to see which items need my attention. If all of the items have checkboxes beside them, then I have to read each individually to see whether or not the item is indeed requiring action.
I would also like to see a hoisting function.
But that being said, OutlineEdit is a handy, intuitive outlining app.
Steve Z.
Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 10, 2014 at 05:17 PM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Ideally, an outliner should allow for selectively applying
>the checkboxes to individual topics.
What would be even more ideal if it would be possible to have a choice between a **strict** implementation and a **loose** implementation of checkboxes within the same software.
The loose one is the one you describe above, which leaves it to the user to decide which item to add a checkbox to, and the checkboxed items can be ticked independently from each other (e.g. as it is in CT).
The strict one assigns a checkbox to every outline item automatically and all sub-tasks need to be completed before a parent task be declared complete (e.g. as it is in Bonsai).
Perhaps even some other permutations are possible. At the moment I don’t know of a software that can do both of the above.
Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 10, 2014 at 08:24 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>What would be even more ideal if it would be possible to have a choice
>between a **strict** implementation and a **loose** implementation of
>checkboxes within the same software.
>
> At the moment I don’t
>know of a software that can do both of the above.
Correction: Bonsai can ‘almost’ do both. In “Preferences > Calculated” it is possible to turn on or off “Calculate parent values form children > Completion status.” So one can either tick boxes in a **strict** manner, or a **loose** manner. However, it’s not possible to selectively assign checkboxes to items (as you can in CT’s Outliner). You either have all items with checkboxes or none.
Posted by Bernhard
Nov 11, 2014 at 07:15 AM
I bought OutlineEdit yesterday. It seems very handy but It would be nice to move topics with keyboard shortcuts. Now, one can drag and drop but no shortcut (like in Tree). Or did I miss something?