Lucas
4/4/2020 4:38 am
There are many possible approaches, of course, but off the top of my mind, I would recommend three programs that have the advantage of allowing you to work in hierarchical mode and paragraph mode simultaneously:
1. Microsoft Word Outline View (Mac or Windows). You can go back and forth between Outline View (hierarchical) and any of the normal views.
2. Scrivener (Mac or Windows): You could create your outline hierarchy as headings in the left-hand panel, and then start fleshing out the paragraphs in the main (right-hand) panel. (Scrivener is one of the only programs that functions as a two-pane outliner but presents the entire, concatenated text in the right-hand pane.)
3. Sense Editor from Silva Elm (Windows). This program hasn't been updated in a few years, but it has some unique affordances. If you install the free OPML plugin, you can create a hierarchical structure and work in regular document mode simultaneously, somewhat akin to the way Scrivener works.
Alternatively, if you're on a Mac and have Tinderbox, there are many export options to help you transform an outline into regular text.
(And of course there are a variety of program combinations that could allow you to go from outline to OPML to regular text, but my memory isn't so clear on that score.)
1. Microsoft Word Outline View (Mac or Windows). You can go back and forth between Outline View (hierarchical) and any of the normal views.
2. Scrivener (Mac or Windows): You could create your outline hierarchy as headings in the left-hand panel, and then start fleshing out the paragraphs in the main (right-hand) panel. (Scrivener is one of the only programs that functions as a two-pane outliner but presents the entire, concatenated text in the right-hand pane.)
3. Sense Editor from Silva Elm (Windows). This program hasn't been updated in a few years, but it has some unique affordances. If you install the free OPML plugin, you can create a hierarchical structure and work in regular document mode simultaneously, somewhat akin to the way Scrivener works.
Alternatively, if you're on a Mac and have Tinderbox, there are many export options to help you transform an outline into regular text.
(And of course there are a variety of program combinations that could allow you to go from outline to OPML to regular text, but my memory isn't so clear on that score.)