Does anyone know of an outliner that supports columns where the column content can also be an outline (i.e., hierarchical, collapsible)

2 come to mind for the PC:

1- Ecco Pro (now free)
2- My own SQLNotes. www.sqlnotes.net

ndodge wrote:

Does anyone know of an outliner that supports columns where the column content can
also be an outline (i.e., hierarchical, collapsible)

Oups... I did not read your question well enough. None come to mind that can have a collapsable outline in a cell of an outliner

May I ask why you'd like that?

Pierre Paul Landry wrote:

May I ask why you'd like that?

I can envision situations where I have related sets of information that are parallel.

This would be like having a Word table with columns, where there are notes in each column. In Word I could use an outline or a bulleted list style. I was envisioning something like this but with the ability to collapse items like an outliner.

You might want to look at recent versions of Excel. I have a friend who uses Excel and its columns to store text info. Perhaps newer versions of Excel can collapse rows that have text in columns to the right, but no entries in the leftmost columns. Even my version of Excel has some outlining features.

-c

I've been using OneNote lately, and although the outlining is rather cumbersome (I've improved it some by defining some custom hotkeys associated with toolbar buttons) I did realize today that I can have a table in OneNote and can have outlines in each column, separately expandable and collapsible. There are times I need to review documents and take notes on each paragraph. I can have the original paragraphs in one column and the notes in another column, as an outline. I did something like this in Ecco using parallel views but it got tedious to have separate notepads, and also, in Ecco, you can only have 2 parallel views that get displayed side by side.

I can envision, for some applications, using tables with mini outlines in table cells in OneNote. Then I can collapse text that I don't care to see, but I can use the layout of a table to organize related information.