Outline 4D (formerly known as Storyview 2.0)

Posted by Dr Andus
Dec 28, 2012 at 06:06 PM

Listerene wrote:
I finally got tired of their lack of updates and the UAC thing—having
>to compromise security because they’re too lazy to update their now
>hugely overpriced and archaic product was more than upsetting to me—
>so I switched to UV. I was always a big fan of Grandview and UV is the
>closest I’ve found.

>All in all, I’ll take a freeware program that is continually updated to
>an overpriced relic published by a slothful company disrespectful of
>their users; any day. I hope others will too, as an encouragement to
>said slothful, disrespectful company to be less so.

I generally agree with the factual points you make, except I don’t share the emotions, partly because I didn’t pay the full price, partly because I just accept it as a fact that software age and get abandoned (on the plus side no more future costs :), and partly because I do enjoy using O4D for some of its unique features.

>PLUS there are various ways to simulate 4D’s features in UV.

Which features are you referring to and how do you simulate them?

At the moment I’m using O4D for the following features (besides it being a single-pane outliner with inline notes):
- ability to have individual formatting according to hierarchy level both for text and background colour;
- ability to hold long inline notes;
- ability to format (especially highlight in yellow) text in inline notes;
- ability to toggle between 1) items & notes view, 2) items (titles) only, 3) notes only or 4) create custom views for each item;
- ability to use Level Selector to view selected level(s) of the hierarchy;
- ability to select individual hierarchy levels to export as RTF.

At the moment I don’t use the Timeline view and plotline tracking features but those are pretty unique as well and I hope to use them in the future.