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tkoutline, and standard format for basic outlines?
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Posted by jimspoon
Aug 6, 2008 at 06:55 PM
I was just looking at tkoutline, a very simple no-install single-pane outliner. Sort of like a “Windows Notepad” of outliners. Could be useful to have such a thing. Unfortunately no update of Tkoutliner has been put out since 2004.
I had a look at the coding in a file created by Tkoutline. It made me wonder - is there any think like a standard encoding for basic outlines? Like a CSV format for outlines. It would be useful to have an outline format that anybody could read using a standard tool. It could be used for exporting an outline from one outline app, and importing it into another.
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Aug 6, 2008 at 07:09 PM
There are a number of formats, OPML is one of them
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPML
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Aug 6, 2008 at 08:01 PM
tkOutline is a handy little application. I don’t believe we will ever actually see any additional updates, not with a four-year gap since the last update. Nevertheless, it still works well. It has a handy little wiki-like linking feature. Put [brackets] around any words and when you click on that word or those words you create and open a new outline.
It also will export to OPML, XML, HTML, and ASCII.
Steve
Posted by jimspoon
Aug 6, 2008 at 10:03 PM
Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
>There are a number of formats, OPML is one of
>them
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPML
Very interesting. Would be good to see a standard widely implemented.
When I clicked the example OPML documents linked on the Wikipedia page, I got source code, not the rendered document. I suppose browsers don’t support OPML yet?
I’ve been trying out this OPML Editor, I suppose it’s the only one?
http://support.opml.org/download
Posted by Cassius
Aug 6, 2008 at 11:49 PM
If one looks at the site that jimspoon cited, one will find a familiar name: Dave Winer. He is (or is one of) the creator of OPML He also founded outliners.com, the “parent” of this forum OPML was used to develop an outliner for programmers.
-c
jimspoon wrote:
>Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
>>There are a number of formats, OPML is one of
>
>>them
>>
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPML
>
>Very interesting. Would be good
>to see a standard widely implemented.
>
>When I clicked the example OPML documents
>linked on the Wikipedia page, I got source code, not the rendered document. I suppose
>browsers don’t support OPML yet?
>
>I’ve been trying out this OPML Editor, I suppose
>it’s the only one?
>http://support.opml.org/download