Treeline 2.0 was just released.

http://treeline.bellz.org/index.html

Looks pretty simple. Might be handy for some purposes.

Wish he'd do a Mac version. It's a lovely little app, if a bit idiosyncratic.

Of course I stumbled upon Treeline (never heard of it). But of course I found a thread here from nearly a decade ago.

It looks like so many outliners, but apparently it's strength is in how it can handle data fields.

It seems it is still being developed and there are even some reviews on it's source page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/treeline/

One such review says.
"A very useful product. It takes time to get used to. Unfortunate that there is no good introduction to this great program. The flexibility it provides is great. A Quick Intro: This is a Information Management Software. Remember it closely resembles a outliner like Leo. But, its strength lies in its data types. You can create different types of data types and then assign it to the node. For example imagine you are managing the development of a software product. So, there are a lot of information you have to keep. Software product development typically involves customer requirements, product releases, enhancement planning, QA, bug reporting/fixes etc. Each of the above topic involves different types of information to be stored. For example, customer requirement requires to store the customer details, the requirement, use case, the release the customer expects the requirement to be available etc. These are diverse information which cannot just be written as plain text. Treeline comes handy in these situations. When using TreeLine, you can create a data type called CUSTOMER_REQUIREMENT and then depending on the various information it has to hold, you can create fields. The fields can be of a specific type like Date, Boolean, Text etc. Once you create a node in the tree view, you can convert the node type to the one you require, and fill the details. This makes it easier to view. You can also customize how it has to be shown. Also, the software provides very powerful feature to find and filter based on user provided criteria. For example you can find all the nodes containing a particular text. Also, you can filter nodes based on certain criteria and save the criteria as well. Give it a try.. you will be amazed by its powerful features. "

Nomatica,
Thanks for the update. The original link above takes you to the (as of today) 3.1.6 version of TreeLine.
-Fish

Thanks
There is more information on the site https://treeline.bellz.org/index.html
News Features Screenshots Requirements Downloads Installation How to Use


June 3, 2023 - Release 3.1.6 (stable release)

Updates:
Detect external file modifications by checking the file's last modified time just prior to saving.
Preserve the choices in the field format when switching between Choice and Combination field types.

Bug Fixes:
Fix a bug that prevented child type limits from being set back to all types.
Preserve the modified status of the config dialog when switching between windows displaying different files.
Fix problems occurring when the escape key is used to close various non-modal dialogs.
Avoid a traceback error message when attempting to import a CSV file with a bad header row.
Fix a bug using child count fields in live HTML exports.

The developer has made a related program called TreeTag: https://treetag.bellz.org/ This one groups items in the tree based on their field values. It also has an Android app, which sadly TreeLine does not.

Treeline reminds me (or vice versa) of one of the great Mac apps which unfortunately has never received the coverage it deserves: Noteship (by Rico Gundermann). The name is, perhaps, not the most inspiring, but the app itself is a jewel of minimal-footprint, data-oriented note-taking, with clever use of tags and fields (like the revered but long-defunct askSam, fields can be included in notes arbitrarily).

Well worth a look – still available on the Mac App Store. Rico needs encouragement, however – take-up has been very poor, probably because of a lack of marketing muscle.

I was a frustrated askSam user... Loved the idea, but could never get it to do what I needed it to do. Noteship does look like a nice app. It is a shame that it hasn't garnered more attention and users. I wouldn't be able to use it because of its Mac-only status.

MadaboutDana wrote:

Treeline reminds me (or vice versa) of one of the great Mac apps which
unfortunately has never received the coverage it deserves: Noteship (by
Rico Gundermann). The name is, perhaps, not the most inspiring, but the
app itself is a jewel of minimal-footprint, data-oriented note-taking,
with clever use of tags and fields (like the revered but long-defunct
askSam, fields can be included in notes arbitrarily).

Well worth a look – still available on the Mac App Store.
Rico needs encouragement, however – take-up has been very
poor, probably because of a lack of marketing muscle.

I like the idea of adding structured data to outline rows. Other examples of apps doing this are OmniOutliner and SheetPlanner where they display this data as columns.

A long term goal I have for Zavala is to have structured data associated with rows that is user definable. The biggest problem I'm facing is how to make it usable on small screen devices like iPads and iPhones. I don't much care for the column layout you see in other outliners. I have some ideas, but nothing that I feel good enough about to implement yet.

You’re not wrong – outliners and columns are a tricky one. A long-lost app called, I think, ListPro, originally developed for Windows Mobile (or SE or whatever Microsoft last decided to call it) used multiple fields, but allowed you to “switch them off” at will on a mobile, and included one large notes pane (ultimately supporting rich text) at the bottom of the screen for stuff you really wanted to remember/highlight. You could use the fields (even the ones you’d “switched off”) to sort or group the list items, which was a neat feature. So the mobile view was essentially vertical (although it switched to horizontal columns on a desktop), with the navigation outline on the left (as usual). It was a clever app!

Maurice Parker wrote:

I like the idea of adding structured data to outline rows. Other
examples of apps doing this are OmniOutliner and SheetPlanner where they
display this data as columns.

A long term goal I have for Zavala is to have structured data associated
with rows that is user definable. The biggest problem I'm facing is how
to make it usable on small screen devices like iPads and iPhones. I
don't much care for the column layout you see in other outliners. I have
some ideas, but nothing that I feel good enough about to implement yet.

MadaboutDana wrote:

ListPro,

It was, and apparently still is, a very useful app.

ListPro is still available... now on iPhone. I don't think it is being developed very much these days.

Bill, re ListPro - Sometime last year I remembered ListPro, but couldn't remember its name, although I had once used it way back when.

Seeing your reference to it now I did a search, and found the following:

https://www.iliumsoft.com/listpro/windows/

It appears to be a going concern and compatible with Windows 10 and 11. I will check it out.

In the Windows world, MyInfo is an outliner with columns, and is still under development.

Daly

Bill, re ListPro - Sometime last year I remembered ListPro, but couldn't remember its name, although I had once used it way back when.

Seeing your reference to it now I did a search, and found the following:

https://www.iliumsoft.com/listpro/windows/

It appears to be a going concern and compatible with Windows 10 and 11. I will check it out.

In the Windows world, MyInfo is an outliner with columns, and is still under development.

Daly

Sorry about the double send of my previous post.

Daly

Hi Bill and Maurice -

In the PC World, MyInfo has long had columns, and I have found it pretty good for handling information. I recommend it to anyone looking for an outliner with columns. I found MyInfo, with its columns, quite helpful for tracking my reading across multiple genres, as well as a place to generate and keep ideas.

https://www.myinfoapp.com

Petko, the developer, keeps updating and improving MyInfo, and the headline on website states, "MyInfo is the most versatile organizer for Windows" - definitely worth checking out.

Daly

MadaboutDana wrote:

You’re not wrong – outliners and columns are a tricky
one. A long-lost app called, I think, ListPro, originally developed for
Windows Mobile (or SE or whatever Microsoft last decided to call it)
used multiple fields, but allowed you to “switch them off”
at will on a mobile, and included one large notes pane (ultimately
supporting rich text) at the bottom of the screen for stuff you really
wanted to remember/highlight. You could use the fields (even the ones
you’d “switched off”) to sort or group the list items,
which was a neat feature. So the mobile view was essentially vertical
(although it switched to horizontal columns on a desktop), with the
navigation outline on the left (as usual). It was a clever app!

Maurice Parker wrote:
I like the idea of adding structured data to outline rows. Other
>examples of apps doing this are OmniOutliner and SheetPlanner where
they
>display this data as columns.
>
>A long term goal I have for Zavala is to have structured data
associated
>with rows that is user definable. The biggest problem I'm facing is how
>to make it usable on small screen devices like iPads and iPhones. I
>don't much care for the column layout you see in other outliners. I
have
>some ideas, but nothing that I feel good enough about to implement yet.

Ooh yes, I’d forgotten the excellent MyInfo – cheers!


Daly de Gagne wrote:

Hi Bill and Maurice -

In the PC World, MyInfo has long had columns, and I have found it pretty
good for handling information. I recommend it to anyone looking for an
outliner with columns. I found MyInfo, with its columns, quite helpful
for tracking my reading across multiple genres, as well as a place to
generate and keep ideas.

https://www.myinfoapp.com