Any suggestions for an outliner with columns and filtering by column entry?

(Like Lotus Agenda did with notes and categories)

Cheers.

I believe OmniOutliner does this.

Since you mentioned Agenda, I assume you are still on Windows. Have you tried InfoQube?

Jon

Hey,

Maybe even Smartsheet might fit the bill, It's what did the job for me after omnioutliner got too simple on the columns. I did use Fastrackschedule 10 too, but smartsheets options for getting info into it are awesome.

I've often pondered why column based outliners cant very well collapse the columns too. There was an Aussie financial document startup working on this, it was a cool concept, except for the entereing of information! I just cant recall the name.
Let us know what you end up using?

Excel is not an outliner but has the best filtering by far. I've searched every corner of the internet for an Excel extension that does decent outlining but alas, there is none.

NoteCase Pro does this with your choice of 13 built-in node properties plus an unlimited number of custom node properties. Best done in List Mode (memory only) so the order of nodes in the outline is unchanged.

Nodes can be sorted (ascending or descending) by the following columns:

0 -- Node Title

1 -- Last Modified Date

2 -- Task Due Date

3 -- Task Priority

4 -- Task Status

5 -- Task Completion Date

6 -- Task Expire Date

7 -- Task Start Date

8 -- Node Flags

9 -- Is Clone (can be active only in Tree Pane, not in List Pane)

10 -- Node Path

11 -- Node Tags

12 -- Date Created

13 -- Clone Source Path

14 -- Custom Node Property

Custom node properties are key/value pairs. Each custom property key gets its own column. All node column types can be shown, hidden (except note title), controlled, and manipulated programmatically, e.g., sorted, using Lua scripts. (The NoteCase Pro API currently includes 357 scriptable program commands, one of which can execute any of 158 user actions.)

NoteCase Pro runs on WIndows, OS X, BSD Unix, and many flavors of Linux. http://notecasepro.com/

Best regards,

Paul

In my experience, both Tinderbox (Mac) and Infoqube (Windows) are quite robust for this sort of thing. (Infoqube has true outline filtering, whereas in TInderbox, an "agent" would collect the filtered results in a flat list.)

Our Hyper Plan is card based, rather than an outliner. But it has a tabular view and the latest version ( v2.5.0, out for beta today at http://www.hyperplan.com/hyperplan_v250.html ) has fairly sophisticated filtering on the tabular view.

--
Andy Brice
http://www.hyperplan.com

I agree with the recommendation for Excel but for sophistication look at Neo and Tinderbox. I don't recall seeing column filtering in OmniOutliner, though.

See also

http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/142/

Magenda wrote:

Any suggestions for an outliner with columns and filtering by column
entry?

(Like Lotus Agenda did with notes and categories)

Cheers.

yosemite wrote:

Excel is not an outliner but has the best filtering by far. I've
searched every corner of the internet for an Excel extension that does
decent outlining but alas, there is none.

XL Notes is an add-on that turns each cell into a word document (via a side-panel interface). In effect, it turns Excel into an outliner. One problem is that it is now abandonware but you can find it on the net if you look hard enough. The version you want is V.2. Versions after that had major problems. Another problem is that it only works with Excel 2010 or below.

Despite all of these issues, I'd be lost without it and it really *does* turn Excel into an entirely different tool.

OmniOutliner 5.0, which is now in Beta only, does include filtering by columns, or by any of a number of criteria, much like Ecco Pro did. It works very well, and should be in the next major release (whenever that is).

rogbar wrote:

OmniOutliner 5.0, which is now in Beta only, does include filtering by
columns, or by any of a number of criteria, much like Ecco Pro did. It
works very well, and should be in the next major release (whenever that
is).

Thanks @rogbar

I just signed up for the beta here:

https://www.omnigroup.com/test/omnioutliner-mac

Jon Polish wrote:

Since you mentioned Agenda, I assume you are still on Windows. Have you
tried InfoQube?

Jon

I was very heavy into Agenda and Magellan, using Desqview, back in the day. So much so that I burned out on complicated Pims. I followed early days Zoot, and InfoCube, but found the learning curve too steep. Wound up with notemap2 with limited expectations. Work got too heavy to spend time learning software. The curse of early adopters is to fall behind the crest of the wave. I am in IOS and have a Macbook pro also these days, and do my share of CRIMPING, but usually don't get deep into new software because I haven't had the time.

Now, I have more time, so I'm looking againing. Infocube has always seemed very cool, so I will check it out, hope there is a demo.

One thing seems clear to me. There is no "One ring to rule them All" as yet!

Cheers, and thanks to all. Will check out Beta of Omnioutliner if they will have me, Notes looks like it may be the thing.

If the Quest is fun, I will pursue it time permitting!

I had Omnioutliner for IOS, but it no longer runs, and the "support" emails explaining that it is Apple's fault, and the lack of an upgrade price, are big turnoffs. Did I read that Omnioutliner has crippled printing (I may be completely mistaken)?