ConnectedText now is an Outliner with Footnote Function

Posted by Chris Thompson
Oct 2, 2007 at 04:56 PM

Looks interesting. Thanks for the heads-up!

Manfred wrote:
> 1. an outliner that
>is quite capable and can import and export opml files

Is the new outliner a single pane outliner or a dual pane outliner? Can you collapse/expand parts of the outline?

How would you compare ConnectedText to VoodooPad (apart from the graphical view which VP doesn’t have)?

>Because I do not want to make the move to Vista, I
>have bought a MacBook and fooled around with all kinds of Mac Outliners. Let me assurer
>you that they are WAY ahead of anything that can be found in Windows. In fact, it is
>ConnectedText that keeps me staying with Windows (and now I have one more
>reason).

I agree with you. There is much more active development in this area on the Mac platform, and some of the software tools are more mature. (BTW, be sure to check out TAO if you haven’t; it doesn’t get a lot of press but is probably the most powerful true outliner since MORE.) The nice thing is with Intel Macs is you still have access to all the Windows software too, and with modern VMs, they’re integrated with the system and behave just like Mac apps. I no longer worry about platform issues; I just run the best software for my needs, Mac, Windows, or Unix.

>P.S. I would like to thank those who
>participated in the discussion of Word Processing and Footnotes. I am now using
>AppleWorks 5.0 as my Word Processor of Choice (not 6.0, which has some nasty
>incompatilities with Windows). The main difference to the Microsoft Works word
>processor (who is also not as bloated as Word) is that it does Outlines and Endnotes as
>well as footnotes.

If you’re using AppleWorks, you may want to look at the most recent version of Pages. They changed the keybindings to make outlining natural; whenever you’re in a list, tab indents the whole thing, option-tab un-indents, and when you grab on the bullet, the cursor changes to an outline-rearranging triangle. Unfortunately it still doesn’t have a dedicated outline view or collapse/expand, but compatibility with Word is now truly excellent.

—Chris