outliners that sync content from/to text files?

Posted by Anthony
Nov 16, 2015 at 12:15 PM

Not quite an outliner, but a text editor. SublimeText (or Atom as a freeware), with its project feature, shows an outline pane taken directly from a folder hard disk: i.e. mirroring it.

Pros:
a) any file put in there is shown in ST without need of synchronization
b) files to be shown can be filtered by name and extension
c) with an additional plugin you can manage to create/move/modify/etc. any type of text/html/etc files directly within ST, including the creation of new folder nodes
d) extensibility by combining project+snippets features
e) Multiplatform /ftp /possibly clouding (never tried).

Cons:
a) the outliner listing is in alphabetic order: re-ordening allow only between nodes (folders)
b) plain text only can be modified by ST, no rich text files (however any file can be shown and filtered in the outline project pane)
c) absence of a single file database, containing all the text files (possible though zipping the project).

I am sure other advanced text editors can do just (or almost) the same. The advantage of ST is the huge number of plugins.