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Software request: Outliner with (persistent) Highlighter tool
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Posted by euuuu
May 28, 2018 at 07:03 PM
Hi! I’m looking for an outliner that let me highlight like on a PDF reader: I select the highlighting tool and start selecting parts of the text to be highlighted. I tried several oulining softwares they all require me to select the text, then click on the highlight button, then select another part and click the highlight button again, and so on. Otherwise speaking, I need the “keep the tool selected” option.
The only software that I know that let me do this is LibreOffice Writer (and MS Word, but it’s too expensive), but it’s outlining feature is too bad. I would like to have better outlining features, like collapsing, drag and drop, and other cool stuff that I find on outlining softwares. Colored levels, like on Outline 4D, would be awesome.
I’m on Windows.
I need to highlight hundred of pages everyday, so this feature is very important to me. Please help!
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
May 31, 2018 at 09:47 PM
Hi, not sure if this is what you have in mind, but I just tried Microsoft Word and its highlighter tool is persistent.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
May 31, 2018 at 09:49 PM
Sorry, for some reason I missed your parenthesised reference to MS Word the first time I read your post…
Posted by Dellu
May 31, 2018 at 11:00 PM
I recommend Keyboard maestro for this task if you are on the Mac.
I have a small pallet in KM that I use to highlight, underline, strikeout texts across all text editors (rtf editors; I used to do so with the markdown as well, I have dropped it now), even in Latex. The best part is, KM can be contextualized to the exact types of application.
If the active application is Latex editor (Texstudio), do \hl{} (that is my command for highlighting with yellow in Latex)
if the application is Keep It, highlight the with yellow color…(text formatting)
the same command (macro) does different tasks on different applications. It is very neat.
Posted by Dellu
May 31, 2018 at 11:01 PM
I use the same strategy to highlight across all types of PDF readers using Popclip.