Re: "Metaoutlining"

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Posted by stephenz
2005-02-16 08:54:56

Being able to outline within an outline changes the dynamic regarding one-pane and two-pane outliners. It seems to me, that it gives you a one-pane outliner within a two-pane outliner. That would be an awesome combination. That is, if you could embed a NoteMap style outline within an UltraRecall or ADM style outline, you’d have the best of both worlds. I don’t see that happening but it is nice to dream.

In the meantime, there are some tiny strides being made. InfoSelect allows you to have a hierarchical outline with various label styles within one of its entries; however, the implementation is very clunky… they don’t even provide a tool bar button to enable this feature, or select the styles of bullets. The Journal also offers this type of embedded outlining.

As Stephen points out, OneNote has probably implemented this most effectively…

Steve Z.

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