Single-pane outliners

Posted by jimspoon
Dec 15, 2012 at 02:15 PM

bHi Dr. Andus, I was puzzled by the inclusion of Ultra Recall in the list of single-pane outliners, so I was experimenting with it for awhile. If true, it would be great, because UR has many strengths. Then I looked at some of the thread and saw Jon Polish’s comment that UR could be used as a single-pane outliner if you enter your notes into the Data Explorer pane (tree), rather than into the Item Details (editor) pane. Unfortunately, the Data Explorer is really designed only to contain item “titles”; in fact in the text that appears in the tree is the text in the “Item Title” attribute that appears in the Attributes pane. And if the Data Explorer pane is used as a single-pane outliner, it’s very clumsy and limited.

It would be great if UR were modified to make the Data Explorer a more capable single-pane outliner - with more text editing functions (formatting, split/join, multiple paragraphs) and with integrated columns. Unfortunately there’s not much indication that UR will ever be so modified.

MyInfo is similar in that it’s Tree Editor pane could be used as a single pane outliner - and in fact MyInfo’s tree editor pane does have integrated columns. It would be great if it were modified to make it a more capable single pane outliner.