Plain text solutions for data organisation

Posted by Derek Cornish
Feb 11, 2008 at 04:06 PM

Thanks for the information about TRichview (http://www.trichview.com/). It seems that MyInfo and TreeDBNotes Pro use it as their editor, too. I did not know that. Unfortunately it does not look as though it can be used to produce single-pane outlines. But I digress…

Yes, I would go along with others about Treenotes and PowerOutlines. I liked Insight when I trialled it some time ago, but found it a little buggy. It is also very expensive for a text-only two pane outliner. Its developer has done some work in connection with NoteTab, with which he says his products are compatible, so I think the files are stored as plain text.

At the moment I use NoteTab Pro. As Manfred says, the two-pane outliner option is rudimentary - more of a table-of-contents than a proper outliner - but useful for navigating around a document divided into many sections. It also has a lot of other neat features, and stores data as plain text, whether you are using its two-pane “outlining” option or not. It can also save sequential versions of the file you are working on. Very useful.

Derek