Edwin Yip

Kudos for WritingOutliner Word Add-in 3/11/2011

Thanks Dan and Graham for the comments. I'm the developer of Writing Outliner :) Yes, it's a fact that the stability and performance of Writing Outliner can still be enhanced a lot (actually, I'm ...

You need a different view on your outline - a corkboard with arrangeable index cards 1/4/2011

@Franz, Thanks for your comment, yes, the corkboard function is similar to Scrivener's, honestly, I've not able to come up with better idea yet for a corkboard function, and IMHO, Scrivener's corkboar...

You need a different view on your outline - a corkboard with arrangeable index cards 1/3/2011

And happy new year to you all!

You need a different view on your outline - a corkboard with arrangeable index cards 1/3/2011

@Franz, Thanks for the comment. With great respect, I have clearly stated in the first post of my Writing Outliner blog that Writing Outliner was mostly inspired by Scrivener for Mac, when Scrivener ...

You need a different view on your outline - a corkboard with arrangeable index cards 1/2/2011

Hi folks, I haven't visited this forum for a while, mostly because I've been busy with the new version of Writing Outliner - An add-in software that turns Microsoft Word into an outliner software. I...

Scrivener for Windows on the horizon? 7/20/2010

This is a good news to writers who use Windows. I'm the developer of Writing Outliner - a Word add-in that's mostly inspired by Scrivener (Kudos to Keith Blount). So If you want to stick with Microso...

Structured Document Editors? 7/14/2010

Hi Lucas, No, Writing Outliner doesn't support editing in a combined view yet, but it's on my plan already :) And thanks for this post, I didn't realize that a editable combined view of multiple doc...

Shape-based outline vs. text-based outline, which is better? 4/20/2010

Hi Taxi, Thank you very much for the input! Regarding the icons, you are right, it seems the shown a Word icon for each document node is a little distractive, I'll hide them by default, and offer an...

Shape-based outline vs. text-based outline, which is better? 4/20/2010

Hi Alexander, I appreciate your comments, using smaller icons and larger line spacing are really good ideas, I'll definitely try it! Thank you. -- Edwin Yip Writing Outliner for Word- Turn MS Word i...

Shape-based outline vs. text-based outline, which is better? 4/19/2010

Thank you all for the comments! I've added an option for choosing the visual style by the user. I'm glad I have asked the question, it's true that "customers think different" ;)

Shape-based outline vs. text-based outline, which is better? 4/18/2010

Thanks for the comments, and honestly I didn't expect you don't like the graphical visual style as opposed to me, maybe because I'm a visual guy.... --- Edwin Yip Turn MS Word into a full-featured ou...

Shape-based outline vs. text-based outline, which is better? 4/18/2010

Sorry, the links are broken, please try these: Text-based-outline: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/367923/file-hosting/wo/screenshots/beta2/project%20inbox.png Shape-based outline: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3...

Gmail now supports Nested (hierarchical) Labels 4/18/2010

Yes, and the way to define a sub-label is easy and flexible - just add the parent label as the prefix separated by a forward slash --- Edwin Yip Turn MS Word into a full-featured outliner software ht...

Shape-based outline vs. text-based outline, which is better? 4/18/2010

Hi, This question is a little hard to describe for, so let's see the screenshots below, the first one is the "text-based outline" I call and the second one is how it look like after applying the visu...

Using Microsoft Word as a full-featured outliner software? It's real! 3/22/2010

Hi Wojciech, Thank you for your kind words and your feedback for the beta version in the Writing Outliner beta test forum :)

Using Microsoft Word as a full-featured outliner software? It's real! 3/18/2010

BTW, a Writing Outliner Word Add-in project file itself is a SQLITE database which is a commonly used data format and can be opened by a wide variety of other software tools including many open source...

Using Microsoft Word as a full-featured outliner software? It's real! 3/18/2010

Hi Taxi, In my original post, by "linking" I mean the linkage between the outline and the corresponding Word document that's stored in a WOPRJ project file, sorry for the confusion. Regarding the fi...

Using Microsoft Word as a full-featured outliner software? It's real! 3/16/2010

Hi Shazad, Thank you for asking, as you might have know, its started already :) --- Edwin Yip Turn MS Word into a full-featured outliner software http://WritingOutliner.com shazad wrote: >Edwin whe...

Writing Outliner Word Add-in BETA test started, please give me some feedback 3/16/2010

HI Lucas, Thank you and I'm looking forward to your feedback! Lucas wrote: >Congratulations, Edwin! It looks to be a powerful tool. I've started using it and will >try to give some feedback soon. >...

Writing Outliner Word Add-in BETA test started, please give me some feedback 3/16/2010

Hi Jenyay, Writing Outliner Word Add-in will be a commercial software and the price will start low. Thank you. Jenyay wrote: >After the release of the program become free or will cost money?

Writing Outliner Word Add-in BETA test started, please give me some feedback 3/15/2010

Hi Folks, The beta test of Writing Outliner Word Add-in BETA has just stared today, would you outliner experts give me some feedback from a "outliner software's perspective? Thank you! FEATURE HIGHL...

Using Microsoft Word as a full-featured outliner software? It's real! 3/8/2010

Hi Dominik, I wish I have known you several years ago ;) Dominik Holenstein wrote: >Edwin > >You are implementing I idea I had several years ago. But because I can't >program I thought to wait unti...

Using Microsoft Word as a full-featured outliner software? It's real! 3/8/2010

Thank you Sbastien :) Sebastien Berthet wrote: >That looks very good Edwin! >Keep on with the good work... >S?bastien

Using Microsoft Word as a full-featured outliner software? It's real! 3/7/2010

Hi folks, I have been learning a lot of things about how you folks using outliner software in this forum, thank you! I'm developing Writing Outliner Word addin, the initial idea was to turn Word int...

Microsoft Word Outlines 2/24/2010

Hi Cassius, Writing Outliner is compatible with Microsoft Word version 2000/xp/2002/2003/2007 and 2010 on all windows system, except that it's not tested on 64-bit systems, but at the end it should b...

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