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Outline 4D (formerly known as Storyview 2.0)

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Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 31, 2013 at 10:26 AM

 

Dr Andus wrote:
>>I don’t know of another outliner with that many different views. Which
>>is not to say O4D doesn’t have shortcomings. It lacks hoisting, which
>>would be nice to have.

>I still managed to miss yet another (the 11th) crucial view in Outline
>4D. Thanks to its MDI, it’s possible to display 2 (or more!) versions of
>the same outline side-by-side, so e.g. if you’re working on a very large
>outline, you can have the top displayed in one, and the bottom in the
>other (with changes updated to both).

>Or you can have a different type of view applied to each window. In this
>example the left window is in full view, the right window is in “titles
>only” (skeletal) view. I can’t believe I haven’t discovered this
>sooner…

>http://drandus.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/outline-4d_dual_view.png

In fact this option does make it similar to BrainStorm’s aerial view, except that you have a lot more options in terms of visualisation of outline for both panes.

If you do this with the timeline view in one pane (with “View > Fit to View” on), and outline pane in the other, you could even emulate Grandview’s document window combined with a Brainstorm style aerial view:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/428516/Outline%204D_timeline_with_outline.png