Current Advise on Two-Pane Outliner

Posted by cicerosc
Jan 21, 2015 at 12:06 AM

I looked over the last year of posts here and did not find my question, so I hope someone might have some quick advice:

I am looking for a currently-being-developed two-pane outliner along the lines of Treepad for use in generating a “lesson-plan” series of documents with a tree on the left and a pretty standard word processor like series of documents on the right with graphics, outlines, etc. I want the program to be able to generate nice-looking HTML output that will allow me to place the tree on a website for student reference. (Note that I say, “nicelooking” and would prefer that this aspect of the program look modern and not a decade or more old. :-) )

I realize that this basic feature set describes a myriad of products from Treepad to Cherrytree and *many* others, but I am looking for a mature product with the features of Treepad but more polished and, like I said, currently in development and with an active user base. I would like to see a product that has an active user forum for support as that seems to me to be a good measure that a project is alive and the developer is responsive. Many types of software use this model, and when I don’t find it in some of these programs I see that as an indication that they are not up with the times.

I am tempted by Cherrytree, for example, but I am looking for something mature like Treepad, but with a forum and responsive developer, etc. I don’t necessarily have to have free, at all - I am willing to pay a reasonable price, but not for a program that has been largely abandoned and is just being milked in its old age. There seem to be lots of older programs hanging around that do not seem to be under active development, and though I don’t need nightly releases by any means, a once-a-year or once every two or three year release cycle is something I would prefer to stay away from.

Can anyone tell me who is the current front-runner to be heir to the Treepad-like format with good-looking generation of web pages from the output?

Thanks very much!