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Posted by Marbux
Nov 1, 2016 at 01:30 AM
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
Posted by Lucas
Nov 1, 2016 at 02:06 PM
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.)
Posted by Andy Brice
Nov 1, 2016 at 02:43 PM
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.
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Andy Brice
http://www.hyperplan.com
Posted by Paul Korm
Nov 1, 2016 at 03:56 PM
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.
Posted by Listerene
Nov 3, 2016 at 09:07 PM
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.