two-pane outliner that can show more than one note at a time in the viewer/editor pane?

Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 19, 2013 at 10:38 AM

jimspoon wrote:
> So called “single-pane” outliners
>- where a tree is integrated into the editor itself - not only allow me
>to see the content of multiple items in a single pane, which is only the
>first step - but also the ability to split/join items, promote/demote,
>and reorder items while seeing their full text.
>These abilities make so-called single-pane outliners (where “outlining”
>is actually integrated into the editor) much more useful to me than most
>“two-pane” outliners.

Yes, as long as we’re talking about outlining and writing, I also find single-pane outliners with inline notes superior.

>And yet many of the single-pane outliners seem to be lacking in the kind
>of database functionality I want; many of the two-pane “outliners” excel
>at that.

But I wonder if the advantage of the single-pane outliners gets lost once the text/outline grows too huge. I certainly find that their utility decreases for me as the text grows beyond a certain size.

Maybe one solution could be to have the large text/database rendered as dual-pane, but have 1) the ability (a bit like Scrivenings) to pull up selected “folders” or outline items and combine them in a single pane, 2) switch off the “navigator pane,” and have a single-pane outline view of the selected and combined text snippets (a bit like Scrivinings with folding text enabled with the full functionality of O4D outline mode). Actually ConnectedText’s Table of Contents + folding in the editor view sort of work like that—except that this only applies to a single document within the database.