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Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 21, 2015 at 11:56 AM
jimson wrote:
MyInfo seems like a good fit too. It has quite an adequate web site
>export in the Pro version and is still maintained:
>http://blog.milenix.com
I also heard good things about MyInfo concerning its web export.
Posted by WSP
Jan 21, 2015 at 12:48 PM
I’ve never got beyond the experimentation stage with this particular feature, but I can testify that MyInfo creates a website smoothly and efficiently. In fact, it replicates the structure of your notes exactly.
More generally, I would add that MyInfo is a solid two-pane outliner and note-taker under steady (though slow) development. I believe it’s been around for more than a decade and is a pleasure to use.
Posted by jaslar
Jan 22, 2015 at 03:23 AM
Once again, the depth of this group’s expertise demonstrates itself to be far beyond mine! A learning experience.
Posted by 22111
Jan 22, 2015 at 01:59 PM
MAD’s mentioning of WIT has brought some new name into the game indeed, thank you!
This being said, from the screenshots, and from browsing their site for a mere 3 minutes, I can only see that it seems to be a mess, cluttered at the very least, and I don’t grasp what kind of visually and functionally appealing web sites it would be able to create on its own.
I discussed this “web site building - from outliners” problem here some time ago, and yes, the Dutch TreeWhatever or WhateverTree (I’m unable to remember its name, but it was mentioned above) goes farest into that direction if we let alone for a moment WIT (the respective power of which is unknown to me at this time), BUT even the Dutch outliner, on its own, produces web sites with a flair of 1992, and I’m not entirely sure if you should delete their omnipresent copyright notices, and be an the legally safe side notwithstanding?
Another program mentioned here in this respect is MI: Now, with all due respect, that advice is not to be taken seriously (or then, in a very fresh version there would have been tremendous advancements re that traditionally very poor functionality of that program).
As I said before, you should check for FAULTLESS html export (which many outliners provide; even those which do not necessarily procide faultless rtf export and such), and then, a minimum of scripting would indeed be required, in order to create an appealing web site, both from its visual and from its functional aspect. (Again, perhaps WIT does it all on its own, but I doubt that.) Also, let me repeat that for this script writing, bear in mind (in order to make some sub-tasks much easier) that there may be export functionality “for it all”, and also for “tree only” or even for “tree only, together with its current formatting.
Anyway, choosing your outliner from its traditional functionality will greatly enlarge the bunch of sw from which to pick the flower which will please you best in everyday use. (And yes, it’s ironic that you come from an outline, then will have a lot of work to do, just to get to another outline structure, instead of being served with an automatism creating the latter structure from the very similar first one, but that would imply something more than just plain html, and as you possibly know (and implied in your post at the very least, and rightly so), most of today’s outliner developer don’t even do their immediate homework anymore, let create alone elaborate export formats.
But then, why not trial WIT for this “community”, and as sort of an “admission task” to it, share your findings in some detail? Don’t take me wrong, such a contribution would be very far from being mandatory or something like that, but other newcomers often came with their hands full of delightful new info; well, they didn’t pretend they were Cicero in Science, that I have to admit.
Posted by RickFencer
Jan 25, 2015 at 12:52 AM
You might also check out Page Four:
http://www.softwareforwriting.com