outliner software wanted: single outline with arbitrary lines marked as nodes for an overview

Posted by Dr Andus
Sep 3, 2016 at 09:11 PM

I’m not sure if I fully understand the requirements but perhaps one way of achieving the effect is to use a Markdown editor like SmartDown that has folding.

Then all you need to do is insert one or more hashtags (#) in front of the lines that you want to act as part of the “structural overview,” and those becomes foldable headings (outline nodes).

WriteMonkey additionally also has a standalone floating “table of contents” viewer, so you can have two panes, one with the outline (TOC), and the other that has the entire text.