Surfulater competitor?

Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Jun 2, 2008 at 04:44 PM

Cassius wrote:
>For example, can one expand/collapse suboutlines, rearrange outline items, promore or demote items, etc.?

Yes on all counts. Those functions are be basis of any good outliner. You can also add: split/join items, hoisting and viewing specific non-contiguous items (with or without context) to the list. Oh and multiple outlines at the same time of course, in a window either split vertically or horizontally. The same outline can even be opened in 2 windows to view different parts.

You can view SQLNotes as the combination of 4 parts:
1- A rich-text outliner
2- An outlining spreadsheet with built-in Gantt chart
3- PIM features
4- A rich text word-processing pane for large pieces of text, web clippings, advanced editing (can use MS Word as the editor if desired)

But the parts are not separate components put together (as in MS Office for example). An item can be all of this at once.

This brings me back to the new post by Daly (http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/742/ ), which I’ll take time to answer directly later on, SQLNotes is conceptually extremely simple. And I don’t want to seem condescendant in saying this. If it appears complex, it is (1) because, while simple, it is a rare concept (Ecco Pro is the closest example), and (2) I’ve done a very poor job at explaining it and making it look simple. The current wikispace ( http://sqlnotes.wikispaces.com/ ) is an attempt, but there is much to do still.