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Posted by washere
Mar 23, 2018 at 06:39 PM
Bonsai Natara outline manager nodes indeed can be utilized as an additional column to the left. But it is just a flat level and not very good looking. Thanks Dr Andus.
But settled on of my old top faves RightNote, the recent Pro. With it’s new Outliner feature which I had been tempted by before Christmas but completely forgotten about it’s dual columns layout. Thanks very much to gunars for saving my bacon.
Theoretically you could collapse the whole data structure into one tree. Instead of dual column trees.
I have been experimenting with creating new templates. BUT as I suspected there are huge benefits to having 2 tree columns, where the 1st is ultimately the parent of the 2nd. I can now see in my templates experiments, the potential benefits of this alternative methodology for faster creativity has barely been scratched on the surface IMHO.
Why and how? That’s another story.
Thanks for everyone’s suggestions.
Posted by dan7000
Mar 23, 2018 at 08:49 PM
Ginkgo?
Moo.do *should* do this but doesn’t seem to. Seems like a very obvious application of the moo.do UI model.
Posted by dan7000
Mar 23, 2018 at 08:51 PM
jaslar wrote:
This is very like the new software previously discussed on the forum:
>Indigrid at https://innovationdilation.com/. But instead of a structured
>display liited to level, you can add the views you want on the same
>screen.
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Man, how did I miss this? Inidgrid is truly lovely. Too bad it’s Windows-only and without sync. I can’t live with apps that are not accessible on all my devices anymore - it’s a minimum requirement for me. Yeah, I could probably make this work on multiple Windows machines with dropbox sync, but that still leaves out ios and android.
Posted by cicerosc
Mar 23, 2018 at 09:59 PM
Pierre, I don’t really understand what a “Miller Column” is, but PLEASE consider releasing a version of Infoqube that is focused just on outlining, with the HTML panel as well, without all the calendar and gantt chart and other bells and whistles.
I very much want to convert over from Ecco for daily use, but I find the “complexity” of the full program overwhelming.
I really just want to outline, with columns, and with that right-hand rich-text panel.
I would be more than happy to help test such a variation!
Posted by tightbeam
Mar 24, 2018 at 12:07 AM
I second cicerosc. Why bolt on complexity that so few users likely want or need, and then trumpet the software as having those “features”?
I’m still not entirely sure what a “Miller column” is, or why I’d want it; maybe it’s similar to a very useful feature in SublimeText called New View into File? This opens a second editor window (you could have a third, even a fourth) with a duplicate of the original file that can be scrolled independently. Changes made in the new file appear in the original, and vice-versa. Maybe a “Miller column” is New View into *Outline*? I sort of doubt it, but that would be useful - especially if it were integrated, along with a notes pane, good export options, and nothing else, into dead-simple outliner software like tkOutline.
If SublimeText had a good outliner component (there’s a plugin, but it doesn’t work well), it would meet virtually all of my needs.