Dr Andus wrote:

>I'm getting the impression that you're talking about outlining both as
>the earlier phase of organising and analysis of material, and the final
>phase of writing reports out of the organised material.
>
>Personally I use CT for the former, but not for the latter. I'd say
>Scrivener is more geared towards the latter, than the former. But the
>two could be used in conjunction (organising tool + writing tool).

Actually, in light of the new floating windows of v. 6, CT might offer
some advantages in certain areas even in the writing process over
Scrivener, especially if used with two monitors. E.g. you could view the
outline structure of a document you are writing in the Table of Contents
(TOC) pane on the left. Now sections can be moved around within the TOC.

You could write in the middle pane, have the Outline pane on the right
with an overall (master) outline for the entire book or thesis or
whatever, with links to other documents or notes.

And then you can still view an unlimited no. of notes in floating
windows positioned anywhere across the screen. Not to mention that the
TOC and the Outliner can also be floating.

At the moment I use Outline 4D and Gingko for actual writing, and CT as
the notes database, but I might test the above model to see how it
compares to O4D's single-pane writing and Gingko's writing-in-columns
experience...

Thanks for your suggestions. The problem here is that I work in the Mac platform only. And CT floating windows are restricted to my Virtual OS window, cannot drag out of it and add viewing windows in additional monitors. As for the outline, its for pre-writing, and then writing development.