Is there an outline program that allows tagging text with different layers?

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Feb 1, 2013 at 07:03 PM

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Tall Guy, if I understand well your post, you are indeed talking of
>overlapping ‘layers’ on a plane and not of hierarchical ‘levels’ in an
>outline. If this is a case, I can’t think of any such software of the
>kind discussed here, though it is a common feature in design programs as
>you mentioned, but also GIS (Geographic Information Systems).

I’m coming back to this topic because I just found how to do the above (while realising that this was not what Tall Guy wanted to do). VUE can organise its objects in separate layers, more or less like Photoshop, and you can then ‘hide unselected layers’ from the layer control box. It seems extremely handy for building complex diagrams and then showing them section by section; a sort of 2-D ‘hoist’.