Single-pane outliners

Posted by Dr Andus
Dec 15, 2012 at 02:57 PM

jimspoon wrote:
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.
> >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.
> Yes, I’ve only included it because it was mentioned earlier in the thread. As you suggest, there might be other two-pane outliners out there that could be forced to act as single-pane outliners, but what would be the point, when Noteliner and TKOutline are available for free and would be much more suitable.

Some task managers could also be used as single-pane. E.g. MLO even has a Bonsai export filter but I couldn’t get it work satisfactorily.

In fact there must be some additional 2-pane outliners that allow you to use the 2nd pane as a single-pane outliner. I’ve seen one recently but can’t recall it now.

I guess MS Word and OneNote could be added to the list.

The main point here is how short this list is, compared to possibly hundreds of dual-pane outliners and PIM. As single-pane outliners are most likely to be used for writing (as opposed to note-taking and organising), writers seem to be poorly served.

Would anyone be willing to add a list of single-pane outliners for other OS’s? Perhaps using a virtualisation machine like https://www.virtualbox.org/ might extend the choice for PC users, if there are some good single-pane outliners on the Mac or Linux?