Rant: tried them all...

Posted by Dr Andus
Dec 13, 2012 at 04:34 PM

This sounds like the police composite sketch of a criminal who probably does not exist :) I can’t think of a single single-pane outliner that can do all this.

Single-pane outliners seem to focus more on writing and to-do management than on the note-taking and organising that you seem to be after. So there is a gap in the market.

What I consider the better single-pane outliners (Bonsai, Outline 4D, NoteMap) are all aging now, so your desired image support and advanced features such as cloning and URL support are just not going to be there.

One possibility might be using the edit window of ConnectedText with “folding” turned on, as a single-pane outliner. Then images can be dragged and dropped in. The “Table of Contents” pane could serve as an optional second pane, and in the forthcoming v. 6 hopefully items could be moved around easily via the TOC. But there is the markup (and learning curve) to deal with and the editor pane is not that easy to manipulate as a dedicated outliner such as Bonsai. Although CT has its own separate single-pane outliner (http://welcometosherwood.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/outlining-in-connectedtext/) but it can’t do cloning and images either, as far as I know.