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Posted by Ken
Nov 23, 2017 at 02:29 AM
washere wrote:
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>If the final destination is Word documents:
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>* Word has the “Multilevel List” icon on default home view toolbar,
>variety of options of auto node/sub-nodes levels:
>TAB moves in a level for each new line, deleting each TAB moves line
>back up a level
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>However if sharing online:
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I’ll give Word another look to see if I find it workable. Regarding sharing, I’ll need to talk with with my manager, but I suspect that I am going to draft up an outline before I begin to share anything. And if we do share, it will then be a Word document as we have One Drive accounts, individual and corporate.
—Ken
Posted by washere
Nov 23, 2017 at 03:43 AM
* Files/folders can be set to shared (public) or private on most free cloud options incl. Google-Drive or MS 1drive.
* Also MS Word & Google Docs, and their outliners are TWO different beasts, though they can easily be imported/exported into each other for “most” files w/ structure intact.
* Many Tree/Outline apps/softwares can be imported into both MS Word or Google Docs straight with an export option or using other apps to convert (as noted often on this site).
Or in many cases just: Select All + Copy & Paste works.
If not straightforward, someone here will know how to import your final app choices (Win/Android/Mac) Outlines into MS Word or G-Doc.
-Good luck.
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Nov 23, 2017 at 03:59 AM
Ken wrote:
>> My manager has recently mentioned that she is wanting me to start working on documenting our polices, procedures and operations for our programs. While what ever I put together will eventually end up in MS Word as we are a MS-based local government (...)
>> I thought that some type of outlining program might help me both organize the subject matter(s) and to break it up into more manageable pieces so it is not so overwhelming.
>> While I am familiar with a number of the usual suspects, I wanted something that was web-based and could allow me to easily export my work
(...)
>> My preference for web-based is because I cannot install software on my desktop machine.
Hi Ken,
Have you considered InfoQube for this task ? It includes a 1-pane / 2-pane outliner. The first pane supports rich text. The second pane also, but also many other formats, including markdown, hand writing, web pages, pdf, etc
It can export a whole outline to HTML / Word.
If set-up on a LAN, it is multi-user ready
There are other available UIs to show your items / outline, such as the Gantt, Timeline, MapView, 2-D Surface and a Calendar (Google Calendar sync is the current dev focus), but you may not require these, from what your needs seem to be.
I know you had issues running IQ at work a couple of years ago, even the portable version, which is quite unusual, is it still the case ? I can help if you want.
BTW, Free personal license to the friendly crowd here at outlinersoftware !
Pierre Paul Landry
IQ Designer
http://www.infoqube.biz
Posted by Ken
Nov 23, 2017 at 04:53 AM
Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
Ken wrote:
>
>Hi Ken,
>
>Have you considered InfoQube for this task ? It includes a 1-pane /
>2-pane outliner. The first pane supports rich text. The second pane
>also, but also many other formats, including markdown, hand writing, web
>pages, pdf, etc
>It can export a whole outline to HTML / Word.
>If set-up on a LAN, it is multi-user ready
>
>There are other available UIs to show your items / outline, such as the
>Gantt, Timeline, MapView, 2-D Surface and a Calendar (Google Calendar
>sync is the current dev focus), but you may not require these, from what
>your needs seem to be.
>
>I know you had issues running IQ at work a couple of years ago, even the
>portable version, which is quite unusual, is it still the case ? I can
>help if you want.
>
>BTW, Free personal license to the friendly crowd here at
>outlinersoftware !
>
>Pierre Paul Landry
>IQ Designer
>http://www.infoqube.biz
>
Hi Pierre,
Thanks for the generous offer. As you know, I was a huge Ecco fan, and if I could bring it back to life easily, I probably would have, although I have been away from it now for a few years and have probably changed my work habits to suit the current environment at work and on the web. I really need to sit down when I am not under an overly heavy load to see if I can find some of that old Ecco love in IQ. I have probably had a new machine or two since I last tried the portable version of IQ at work, and again, could test it out when I am not backlogged. They are, however, quite particular about any software as we are tied into the city’s network and security is a big issue for municipalities. For example, even though we are a MS shop, there are MS products that we are not allowed to use, like MS Teams. So, one starts to adopt the mindset of if all you have is a hammer, then everything starts to look like nails. That is one reason that web-based and portable applications have great appeal to me. Are there any good tutorial or introductory videos for IQ that I could watch during my bus commute?
—Ken
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Nov 23, 2017 at 05:21 AM
Ken wrote:
Are there any good tutorial or introductory videos for IQ that I could watch during my bus commute?
Videos would be great, and I do have a Youtube channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Pm-HHb8153_NMWB3FeU0Q
But have not had time to add much content yet… :-(
You can however export any section of the online manual to a local file:
http://www.sqlnotes.net/drupal5/index.php?q=booktree
I did it for chapter 2, saved it as mht/mhtml and put it here for you:
http://public.sqlnotes.net/download/infoqube/InfoQubeUserInterface.mhtml
What you can do is save the downloaded file to dropbox and in your mobile device dropbox app, set it to offline access. Tap on it and Chrome should display it just fine. It does on my Android tablet
HTH !
Pierre