Any other outliner that works nicely with HDD folders?

Posted by Donovan
Dec 29, 2021 at 12:29 PM

MadaboutDana wrote:
Sounds like you’re using Windows, Karel? If so, you could also
>look at Notebooks (first developed for iOS, then macOS, but also
>available for Windows), which has a totally transparent folder/notes
>structure based on the file system. You can also store more or less any
>kind of file in Notebooks, including images, PDFs, MS-Office files, etc.
>etc. Notebooks will update itself in real time, and you can also drag
>and drop files/folders from Explorer/Finder directly into Notebooks and
>vice versa.
> >A lot of apps developed for macOS rely on the file system for storage
>(e.g. NotePlan, Noteship), and there are other more recent developments
>(Obsidian, I believe?) that do the same across multiple platforms. A
>good place to look would be alternativeto.net
> >Cheers,
>Bill

Notebooks is great and Alfons is an extremely capable developer, but development for the Windows version is … slow … to be kind. Notebooks has so much potential as a front end for just about everything I try to lasso on my computer. I truly love the way it works, how it helps, and how it gets out of the way. But a big update is long overdue.