Exporting and importing outlines with inline notes

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Apr 22, 2013 at 05:33 PM

You may want to take a look at this (rather ancient) thread http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/1137
I am sorry to say that I don’t think much has changed since then, other than the adoption of the .mm format by more mind mappers.

The way I see it, there are two approaches in exporting outlines:

- All nodes are equal; there’s no differentiation between titles and notes. This can be done by tab indented text (which is what you get when direct copying from a mind mapper)

- Tree nodes is one thing, their content (text) is another. OPML can do this, as can the .MM format.

OPML is an XML sub-format and is a very basic (minimal) standard. In practice, many programs exporting OPML will include additional non-standard parameters which other programs will simply ignore.

In the outliner world I consider NoteCase Pro the king of import/export. I just imported a .mm file in NCP with no problem and exported it as OPML, which included the text notes. Unfortunately NCP is a two-pane outliner, not quite what you want.