One-pane outliner for academic writing

Posted by Charlie
Aug 26, 2014 at 10:09 PM

Hi Alex,

I have played a bit with the Aibase.Hi Yes, your are right.
The Aibase is not the one for my current project.Outline 4D
looks excellent for works in social science or mostly in pure text.
I tried Sense and find that it competes the clipboard with
phraseExpander and I was often locked,otherwise it is as good
as Outline 4D. I also went back to read those discussions in the
past.I hate to say few choices are there in the Windows ecosystem.
At last, I drill down to two toys. One is notetaker , called Noteshare Express
in windows OS. It is like the Notebook OS X and I can put bullet,text,table,
links,image,even a web browser .But, when I copy and paste
a Mathtype equation ,it shows black box even if I choose copy
Latex format in MathType. I cannot use it. The other one is WhizFolder
although it has two-pane. But the deluxe version has a view choice
by which I can view the whole outline including the note in a separated
window just like in one-pane.I can also do some simple edit in the one-pane
view window by double click on the item.for equations,I can paste my equations
in the left note area in either image format or latex format.

The WhizFolder is far from my ideal one, but I can only work with it before
I buy my first Mac for my next generation of writing Box.
>It’s easy for me to answer that Aibase is _not_ the tool you are looking
>for. It’s logic is multidimensional and non-conducive to developing a
>linear text as output. Also, learning the intricacies of the sui generis
>interface would probably consume more time than would be advisable
>during thesis writing—unless your subject is Aibase itself! That said,
>if you are an engineer, Aibase may be one of the best knowledge
>recording software you’ll ever find.
> >It’s much harder for me to suggest a tool for what you want, but here’s
>a fist attempt (I assume you are on Windows):
> >- Since you meed tables and equations, I think the best candidate is MS
>Word (versions from 2010 onwards, where the navigation pane is much
>improved); I know this may sound banal, but it is the only solution I
>can think that fully fits the bill. In addition, it will probably save
>you a lot of time and frustration when preparing the final draft, as it
>integrates references (very few outliners do) and you won’t need to
>bother with imperfect importing from another programme.
> >- A second candidate may be Outline 4D (formerly Storyview), but I don’t
>think that it can handle tables and equations; you may need to use
>placeholders and edit them externally. See more in this thread
>http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/4446/0/outline-4d-formerly-known-as-storyview-20
>as well as Dr Andus’ excellent blog http://drandus.wordpress.com/
> >- A third is the Sense editor; this is my personal favourite Windows
>outliner for writing, see e.g.
>http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/3909/0/sense-editor-recent-updates
>However, here again you’ll have to work with tables, equations and
>images externally.
> >You might also want to take a look at this relevant thread
>http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/1265/0/looking-for-pim-thesis-writing-software-for-the-pc
> >I hope others will contribute their own suggestions.
>