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Outline4D, but it's outdated and expensive.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outdated.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?