Outliner where you can preset color/formatting based on level

Posted by moritz
Nov 9, 2023 at 03:43 PM

Microsoft Word can do this really well, using styles. Works across Normal/Draft/Outline views. Use ‘Themes’ to switch between ‘working’ styles and print/output styles as needed. Record macro and put on the menu bar if single click or hotkey switch between styles is desired.

Lucine wrote:
Hello,
> >Do you guys know an outliner (windows or web) where you can decide
>beforehand what the formatting will be for a given level, then when
>you’re at that level, it automatically applies the formatting? I only
>know of 2 pieces of software that do this. They’re great in their own
>ways but suffer from being very old and not maintained. The first one is
>Outline4D, but it’s outdated and expensive.
> >The second one is Noteliner, which is very nice and has some great
>features like a navigation bar to parts of the outline, tagging that
>works as a filter, etc etc. But it’s also quite limited due to being
>outdated. In this software, you can preset the styles you want to be
>applied to each level, then it automatically does this. There’s also
>color that can be applied which is very useful indeed.
> >As an extra, one thing that you can do in neither of these that I would
>also like to be able to is to paste images along with text. But finding
>both these features in one currently active good outliner is not very
>realistic I suppose. So if there are any other outliners which ONLY have
>this feature, that would be nice. Workflowy enables this currently IIRC,
>and dynalist in the pro version, but neither of these worked out for me
>because workflowy gets messy, dynalist only allows small amount of text
>per page, after that the text starts overflowing out of the white page
>borders into the margins which is very crude and I won’t be getting the
>pro version of this.
> >Does anyone have any recommendations, comments, or critiques?
> >