The ultimate outliner

Posted by jimspoon
Jan 16, 2013 at 07:27 AM

- text editor with integrated tree structure (commonly called “single-pane outliner”) and columnar grid.
- items in tree can be of any length
- items can be freely split into multiple items or joined into one item
- user-defined fields

So far I’ve seen the foregoing only in Ecco and Infoqube, among Windows outliners.

- relational database capabilities, including the ability to create tables of related fields, and the ability to join tables, ability to deal with one-to-many etc. relationships. Haven’t seen this yet.

- syncing with replica databases residing on multiple computers, as in Ecco - changes on a database on any one computer propagate to the replica databases on the other computers
- syncing with cloud (Google, Evernote)
- mobile apps

- “context free mode” - ability to view, group, sort items outside of the tree-structure as well as within

This would just be the start of my wish list, I’ve got many more.