Zavala - An open source outliner for Macs, iPads, and iPhones

Posted by MadaboutDana
May 27, 2024 at 01:37 PM

Heh, initially I tried the Jesse Grosjean approach, copying and pasting the entire text of Moby Dick into one outline. This didn’t work, because the text was pasted as a single outline item (rather than automatically turning each paragraph into a separate outline item/row), which meant I got an error message from CloudKit telling me that it can only deal with a maximum of 750 child rows.

Fair enough! But it might be worth looking at the default pasting behaviour… next time I’ll convert Moby Dick into an OPML file before attempting to import it ;-)

So I pasted in a couple of chapters instead, and upon inserting my own deathless prose in the middle, found that Typewriter mode works very well – my words of wisdom remained rock steady in the (vertical) middle of the screen while I was typing, and if I mouse-scrolled to another part of the chapter but then started typing again (having left the cursor in the paragraph I was composing), the editor immediately returned to that paragraph and centred it in the middle of the screen.

So far, excellent!

MadaboutDana wrote:
I’m just about to test some longer text (so I can check out the
>Typewriter feature), but in the meantime, am (very) impressed by:
> >a) the enormously improved speed of switching between outlines (now
>seamless);
>b) the consistency of backlinks (they stay where they are, even in my
>iCloud corpus!)
> >Bravo!
> >Maurice Parker wrote:
>Zavala 2.6 - Beta 1 has been uploaded to TestFlight.
>>https://testflight.apple.com/join/iFbND23m
>>
>>This release features Typewriter scrolling which has been requested a
>>couple times. I’d appreciate any feedback as to how well my
>>implementation of it stacks up to other editors out there.