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Posted by satis
May 31, 2024 at 05:58 AM
Maurice Parker wrote:
>I think it is more consistent for Split to work the same as Add Row
>Below. The rules for Add Row Below is that if there is no child Row,
>then add the Row at the current level. If there is a child Row, but the
>current Row is collapsed, then add at the current level. If there is a
>child Row and the current Row is expanded, then add as the first child
>Row of the current Row.
This makes sense. As I noted you can also turn off that behavior in OmniOutliner’s Settings.
Opal (formerly Acta, a Mac outliner I started using in 1987), which is free from the original dev ( https://a-sharp.com/opal/ ), only splits via menu or key-command, but through its Topic menu it offers splits to sister, daughter, or aunt levels, using the same commands as creating new topics/subtopics/supertopics. A new Sister is Return, splitting to a new sister-level is Option-Return. (It gets a little hairy for splitting up to an Aunt level though: Option-Shift-Command-A)
Posted by Maurice Parker
Jun 12, 2024 at 03:23 PM
Zavala 2.6 is now in production. It added Typewriter scrolling and Row level linking.
Zavala 2.7 Beta 1 is now in TestFlight. https://testflight.apple.com/join/iFbND23m
2.7’s big new feature is Nested Tags. You could always use slashes to separate elements of a Tag name, but now when you do so, Zavala automatically folds (collapses) them in the Sidebar. This is similar to Bear and some other note taking apps.
I felt that Zavala’s organizational capabilities were too limited, but I didn’t want to complicate it more than necessary. I strongly considered adding support for Folders, but felt that Folders+Tags was more complexity than I liked. I like Nested Tags because if you don’t use them they’re just not there. I like that users have progressive functionality for organizing Outlines. No Tags, basic Tags, and now Nested Tags.
I’ll be adding a section to Help when 2.7 goes to production on Tagging that helps explain different ways to use Tags.
As always, I’d appreciate any feedback on new features. I always like to refine and fix them before sending them out to users.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jun 13, 2024 at 09:04 AM
Excellent! Thanks, Maurice – nested tags is one of the best possible ways to organise stuff (as you say, using them is entirely optional!). Great decision!
Posted by Maurice Parker
Jun 18, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Zavala 2.7 is now live and in production. This is the version that supports Nested Tags.
Another bigger thing I worked on was interoperability with other applications. Zavala now supports pasting and dropping of Markdown unordered lists. This means that you can drag from OmniOutliner to Zavala and Zavala will automatically format the dragged Rows correctly. You can also do this from a list in macOS’s Notes app. Actually any app that supports generating a Markdown unordered list will work.
This might be the last of the 2.x series for Zavala. Minor bug fix releases will still happen as needed of course.
I really feel like Zavala is a lot more stable and feature complete than it was a year ago when 2.0 was released. This gives me some breathing room to update Zavala internally to Apple’s latest API’s and technologies. Zavala 3.0 will probably work towards supporting the Apple Intelligence stuff announced at WWDC this year.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jun 18, 2024 at 01:20 PM
Heh, I’m impressed! I’ve just been dragging and dropping lists from Bike into Zavala and vice versa. Works very smoothly in both directions!
I shall experiment with other Markdown apps!