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Visual Outliner (new from the developer of Goal Enforcer)
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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 10, 2018 at 09:08 AM
I received today notification from the Goal Enforcer developer of a new software, apparently a one pane outliner:
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We are proud to announce the release of our brand-new product: The Visual Outliner.
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The long-awaited Windows OPML Outliner software that can help you:
- Free up your creativity: “The Bucket of Ideas” will help you harvest your most precious thoughts.
- Clarify your ideas: expand and elaborate on your ideas by adding new topic and subtopic branches.
- Quickly organize your thoughts: rearrange and connect outline entries easily by using drag-and-drop, menu commands or keyboard shotcuts.
- Getting it Done: writing might be intimidating. Creating an outline allows you to move forwarder quicker, even on those days when you don’ fell inspired.
- Good for writing Business Plans, Novels, School Papers, Diaries, Project Planning and Tracking, or whatever you can think of.
- And it’s OPML native, meaning that the outliner is stored in OPML format for easy sharing and tool migration.
If you are familiar with GoalEnforcer, you’ll love the Visual Outliner.
Check for more details at:
http://www.visualoutliner.com/
Posted by satis
Nov 10, 2018 at 11:56 AM
Theming is useful, and using OPML as native format is a nicety, but hardly a distinction worth a difference (“Yes, you read it right: Native OPML File Storage Format for easy sharing and migration to other software tools. We don’t hold you hostage!”), since pretty much all outliners import and export OMPL.
This app seems too much a bare-bones product to be charging $59.99, which is the same price as the much more powerful and comprehensive OmniOutliner. Maybe Windows users are starving for something like this, but I don’t see it offering anything compelling that’s not found in a free (Mac) app like OutlineEdit
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/outlineedit-beautiful-outliner/id878995413?mt=12
Posted by Amontillado
Nov 10, 2018 at 12:41 PM
Native OPML might be a little diffferent than import and export.
I think if OmniOutiliner opens (not imports) an OPML file, it will save to the same file name and format.
MindNode (still working with my marginal memory) won’t directly open OPML, and only saves to its own format. You can export to OPML, but simple open-edit-exit won’t update an OPML file like you can in OmniOutliner.
Disclaimer - I haven’t done that in a while, so the latest version may no longer offer that.
It would be handy if both MindNode and OmniOutliner both supported OPML as a native format. Right click, open with OO, or with MN. If they both support document handoff, I presume you could have the same file open as both a map and as an outline at the same time.
Posted by tightbeam
Nov 10, 2018 at 12:44 PM
It’s nice to see a new single-pane outliner for Windows, and this one seems well designed with a useful though basic slew of features. But 60 bucks? Yeah…not. And it isn’t clear whether that princely sum is for one user or one machine, though either way, it’s too much for what you get.
I’m also not a fan of developers making promises that ultimately they will not be able to keep: “Need more features? Don’t be shy, ask us and we will implement it!” I want hoist, and I want it tomorrow…
Posted by Paul Korm
Nov 10, 2018 at 01:37 PM
I agree with this. OPML is hardly a robust format—the “canonical” definition posted by Weiner years ago doesn’t cover what most developers since that time have done with OPML. That’s neither here nor there, except it means that not all OPML documents are formatted equally. Something saved as OPML by “Visual Outliner” might be useless in another app, and vice versa. Would have been better if the developer saved documents in JSON (more flexible, also plain text) and written an OPML export feature.
satis wrote:
Theming is useful, and using OPML as native format is a nicety, but
>hardly a distinction worth a difference