Reviews of OneNote vs. other outliners

Posted by Cassius
Jul 25, 2012 at 01:16 AM

Jack Crawford wrote:
> >I have had a licence for Inspiration for longer than I care to remember,
>but find it a very frustrating program. The UI and I have never got along and I am
>constantly feeling that I am fighting againt it. It is not as intuitive as it should be
>for an educational app.
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Yes it is “clunky.” I have a nephew (now an attorney) who hated it. I had the same problem as you with respect to the interface, but I’ve “grown accustomed to its face.”
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>The other problem is its looks. Fonts are not presented in the outline at the correct size (at least 2 points below what it says at the bottom of the screen). When I asked Inspiration about this some time back, they acknowledged that it was an issue and was a hangover from porting the software from the Mac version.
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To enlarge fonts, just click on the “big” mountain in the lower left corner.

Other hints:
If in editing mode, click on the outline item and press ESC. That puts you in outline mode and up-down arrows shift you from one outline item to another. CTRL-arrow shifts you to outline items at the same level.

If in outline mode, the left arrorw puts you into edit mode at the beginning of the outline item. CTRL-right arrorw puts you at its end.

It’s not GrandView, but I don’t know of a better, single pane outliner for Windows. (NoteMap could have been except for bugs, including ones that lost content.)