Scrivener-like outliner for Windows?

Posted by Sebastien Berthet
Sep 29, 2009 at 06:26 PM

Hi Edwin,

I’m glad you like the idea! I’m always very enthusiastic about new projects, especially when it’s about writing software. And what you describe is very exciting and ambitious.

But it’s very hard to say how useful and efficient it will be.
I can only tell you how *I* intend to use it:

Here is what I have: a thousand of chaotic doc and txt files in separate folders.
Here is my problem: I don’t know how to *dig* into them!

So, your outliner would help me to:
- import them all
- see how they are “connected”
- add new ones and see on the fly the related notes (NB: note titles are irrelevant, most of them have no title at all, what matters is the excerpt around the matched keywords)
- copy/paste interesting notes to SuperNoteCard (cards) and Word (draft and final documents).

Understand I’m not only a long time user of MS Word, but also a long time user of SuperNoteCard (I suggested many features to Jason Block over the years, to the point I feel like he did this software partly for me!). And I don’t want to replace any of them…
I’m rather looking for a *companion* software that would bring a better “digital coverage” of my writing process. And, as of today, pre-writing is the bad duck (I use Treepad, but that’s not efficient for this purpose… mainly because of its lack of ?find related notes on the fly?).

Kind regards,

Sebastien