My first real outliner was KAMAS. The command that I just loved was "move to bin." The idea was that you could set up 9 different outline nodes, then move through the big outline and in a couple of keystrokes, immediately shuffle things to another spot. It was a brilliant and easy way to reorder things.

I just discovered that Dynalist does this now, too (and has for a while). Ctrl-Shift-M (Move). Then you type the node name, a quick search pops up all the matches, and a return moves it.

Kudos to them. I'm liking it better all the time. The only big thing I miss now is word count.

jaslar wrote:

I just discovered that Dynalist does this now, too (and has for a
while). Ctrl-Shift-M (Move). Then you type the node name, a quick search
pops up all the matches, and a return moves it.

Kudos to them. I'm liking it better all the time. The only big thing I
miss now is word count.

If you're on Windows, you could just use an AutoHotkey script (like the one below), and suddenly you can do word count in any application. This one is triggered by hitting ALT+W (select the text first). Not sure if the forum software can display this all correctly, but let's see:

;-----------------------
; ALT+W to count words |
;-----------------------

!W:: ; ALT + W to activate script
ClipSaved := ClipboardAll ; Save the entire clipboard to a variable of your choice.
Clipboard :=
Send ^c
; Send {Left}
ClipWait, 2
StringReplace, clipboard, clipboard, ', x, All
ClipWait, 2
StringReplace, clipboard, clipboard, -, x, All
RegExReplace( Clipboard, "\w+", "", Count ) ; PhiLho
Clipboard := ClipSaved

; To have a ToolTip disappear after a certain amount of time
; without having to use Sleep (which stops the current thread):
#Persistent
ToolTip, Word Count: %Count%
SetTimer, RemoveToolTip, 5000
return

RemoveToolTip:
SetTimer, RemoveToolTip, Off
ToolTip
Return

On the Mac, there are several word-counting apps. My favourite is WordCounter (https://github.com/DivineDominion/word-counter another of Christian Tietze's creations (see also TheArchive: http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/8103/0/thearchive

Hugh wrote:

On the Mac, there are several word-counting apps. My favourite is
WordCounter (https://github.com/DivineDominion/word-counter another of
Christian Tietze's creations (see also TheArchive:
http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/8103/0/thearchive

Aargh! My apologies - the WordCounter link is now: http://wordcounterapp.com

I tried a word counter chrome extension, but it didn't work beyond a single node. Maybe I'll spend some time meeting with this.