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Which free Outlining website allows automatic external backup?
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Posted by Paul Korm
Aug 12, 2018 at 03:49 PM
I believe Gingko allow exports in the free version—- not the same as an automatic backup, for sure, but can serve the purpose if one pays attention.
@Sydney Nerd: Are you looking for “automatic external backup” because some other site failed to preserve your data—or some other accident?
Posted by Sydney Nerd
Oct 8, 2018 at 01:09 AM
Perfect! That’s what I’m after. Switching to Gingko now.
Paul Korm wrote:
I believe Gingko allow exports in the free version
Posted by Amontillado
Oct 8, 2018 at 02:07 AM
Outlining tools aren’t what they should be, at least on Mac/IOS.
OmniOutliner has done well for me. I like the checkboxes and filters, and hoisting is a good thing.
Since IOS 12 came out, though, OmniOutliner has hit some snags. There was a bug that caused it not to expand the note window on IOS, so that when you wrote more than a couple of lines, the cursor was beyond the dimensions of the visible text window.
That’s been fixed, but now I’m having trouble opening outlines stored in DevonTHINK To Go, and sometimes notes don’t render correctly until the note is closed and reopened.
Tonight I needed to get an outline done for a short story I want to write. I wanted it to be portable and synced between my iMac and my iPad, so I fired up Pages. I haven’t used Pages since a mail merge script I used got obsoleted in a Pages update.
As an outliner, it’s primitive, but it works. The longest outline I’ve ever written ran about 7,000 words. I’d prefer some fancy features, but on the other hand, org-mode would be a good thing, too.
If only emacs were available on iOS.
Posted by Lothar Scholz
Oct 8, 2018 at 10:10 AM
>If only emacs were available on iOS.
Yeah, emacs or vi on a mobile.
It still make my ears bleed to hear this.
The programs optimized best for keeping your hands on the keyboard all the time now working on a device that has no keyboard at all. Whats next? Changing the voice activation from “Hello Siri” to “Meta-X”.
Gives us a whole new nerd fun game: “Meta-X doctor, i feel bad today”.
Whatever. You get my +1 vote for a real good port of emacs.
Posted by Amontillado
Oct 8, 2018 at 10:48 AM
Ha! The lack of a keyboard didn’t even occur to me. Since my primary use for my iPad is mobile writing, I rarely use it without a Bluetooth keyboard.
For the moment, I remain disappointed in available outliners. On the other hand, I don’t do outlines for production, they are notes internal to my purposes.
Something shiny will come along soon, and all wil be right in the world once again.