WritingOutliner revived

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Posted by Amontillado
Oct 26, 2022 at 02:13 PM

I see by email that Edwin Yip has revived his original project, WritingOutliner, a plug-in for Microsoft Word. He had originally set WritingOutliner aside to develop DocxManager.

Now, both projects will be under active development.

If I were a Word user, one of these utilities would be in my daily use arsenal. Cool stuff.

Posted by Edwin Yip
Oct 27, 2022 at 08:18 AM

@Amontillado,

Thanks for spreading the words!

For people who want to see the new screenshots: http://writingoutliner.com/writing-software/blog/writingoutliner-2-0-released/

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Posted by Franz Grieser
Oct 27, 2022 at 08:57 AM

@Edwin: And what exactly is the difference between DocxManager and WritingOutliner 2.0?

Posted by Edwin Yip
Oct 28, 2022 at 02:08 AM

Franz Grieser wrote:
@Edwin: And what exactly is the difference between DocxManager and
>WritingOutliner 2.0?

Hi Franz,

Both WritingOutliner and DocxManager were developed for the same goal - project-based writing with Word.

UI
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However, the two are different designs:
- WritingOutliner is a so-called add-in, which is embedded into Word window.
- DocxManager is the other way around - Word is embedded into the DocxManager main window.

I was trying to replace WritingOutliner with DocxManager, but it turned out that the way DocxManager controls Word makes it impossible to achieve good speed and smoothness when switching from a document to another.

Data storage
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- With WritingOutliner the Word documents in a project are stored in a SQLite database file.
- With DocxManager the Word documents are stored in the file system.

Each storage has its own advantages and disadvantages. Storing documents in a database in WritingOutliner makes it difficult to share and co-edit documents, and I’m planning a new feature that solves this problem - by storing the working documents in the file system so you can edit the documents externally, and WritingOutliner takes care of auto syncing back the changes to the database.

Hope it’s clear.

Posted by Franz Grieser
Oct 28, 2022 at 06:09 AM

Thanks. That makes things clearer.

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