Mac outliners, one-pane, modeless and general-purpose like text editors?

Posted by Derek Peschel
Jun 30, 2009 at 07:04 PM

Hi David. Sorry for the delay—I got the trial version of Opal and looked for my old notes (but I couldn’t find any).

I may have been thinking of another program when I mentioned modes, but Opal does make a distinction between selecting an entire topic and selecting the entire contents of a topic. Is it always possible to select anything with the keyboard?

One thing I do know: with the right prefs, you can use return and the indentation keys to add a series of topics and their contents. But delete doesn’t backspace across topics (that I’ve found), so right there Opal doesn’t give text-editor-style behavior.

Incidentally, the help says to use System Preferences to set the keyboard shortcuts. Opal isn’t on the list, however. Is that because I am running the trial version from downloaded files, rather than as an installed package?

—Derek