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I want an outliner that:
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Outliners.com Message ID: 340
Posted by cherryln
1999-09-21 15:28:00
I want an outliner that:
1) is very keyboard centric like MaxThink was so that it is efficiently navigable and editable without ‘mousing’. And the keyboard mapping is programmable. And, you can use the arrow keys to navigate down ‘into’ and back ‘out of’ an outline hierarchy, and ‘up’ and ‘down’ topics within a parent (like Max used to enable as well).
2) uses columns to enable ‘cross-sectional’ outline views like Ecco Pro but a ‘view’ is just another outline topic parent and not some other thing (like the hack ‘folder’ concept they had in Ecco). IOW, a topic can have multiple parentages and therefore multiple outline ‘views/perspectives’. And of course, children maintain positionality with respect to the parent.
3) topics are ‘typed’. That is they can be text, a date, an image, an embedded OLE object, or…
4) stores the outline in XML
5) is platform independent and is accessed through a browser.
6) can reference anything via a URL and merge that thing dynamically into the view or is a navigable reference (IOW, uses XML Links). a reference to another outline invokes the outline processor again within the browser.
7) can easily export to a word processor AND BACK!
8) includes a spell checker
9) over the years I’ve thought of many other features, I just can’t think of them now!
David Bolene…