best outliner you use? (2018)

Posted by tightbeam
Sep 6, 2018 at 04:02 PM

I wonder if InfoQube would be seen as less “unfriendly” if there were an option for a “basic” interface, stripped of all the add-on stuff and with clear instructions on how to access that add-on stuff when and if the need for it arises.

I’d wager that most reasonably complex software would benefit from a “basic interface” option. I know there’s a sales argument for giving users everything but the kitchen sink, but when you knock on someone’s door for the first time, it usually isn’t answered by every single member of the family.

jimspoon wrote:
Just to put in my vote on this old thread, it’s Infoqube.
> >Like many of us here I’ve spent a long time looking for the “Holy Grail”
>of outliners, and it seemed like it was never going to come along. To
>me it seems that Infoqube far exceeds anything else that is out there or
>has any likelihood of coming along.
> >Of course there is always the question of what is an outliner, and we
>could define it strictly or loosely. Strictly speaking it is focused on
>the arrangement of text items in parent / child relationships, with
>indentation levels to show those relationships. But there are many
>other ways to arrange and find information than that. Infoqube gives
>you many different options so you can do it “your way”. Pierre is
>currently in the process of adding a hierarchical tagging system that
>will provide yet another method that will appeal to many.
> >One recent “discovery” I have made is, you are not wedded to any
>particular method! You can mix and match, and you can use one method as
>sort of a transition to another. For example, I might start out by
>entering notes in a semi-random outliner fashion. But later on I can
>add fields and values very easily and create a nice “spreadsheet” sort
>of view for a particular subset of data.
> >For those who say that Infoqube is “unfriendly” (and remember they said
>that about Ecco too) - I would say you don’t try to grasp it all at
>once. Just get a grasp of the most basic principles and dive in. There
>are many features of IQ that after all these years I haven’t touched,
>and am really not likely to.