Copying outline format from web page to outliner

Posted by Mitchell Kastner
Oct 23, 2009 at 01:19 AM

I have an admission: I have been addicted to outline software since CP/M. The outliner I used was called KAMAS. “Knowledge Acquistion….” I forgot the rest.

My problem nowadays is straightfoward: how to copy a tree-like structure from a web page to my outliner. My outliner of choice now is Mindsystems Abode, only because it exports to mindmapping software. I highlight the outline on the web page, copy it to the clipboard, but when I paste it to Abode, only one level gets paste with the balance of the contents contained within one level. I also license Notemap. But when I copy and paste from the web page outline to Notemap, voila, perfection all the all levels and sublevel and subsub levels get pasted perfectly. The problem is that Notepad is is a pure outliner with no ability to attach a note to a level. Virtually all outliners permit this nowaday; indeed what use is a level if you cannot attach a note to it?

So my question is: what outliner that supports notes attached to level will permit the accurate pasting of an outline from a web page.