Outliner that composes in HTML, not rich-text

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 17, 2009 at 08:37 PM

Actually, there’s quite a few outliners that use HTML for storing formatted text and images. It’s just that they don’t advertise the feature IMO. The question is, how easy do they make to edit the actual HTML source; otherwise images will probably be attached/saved along in the database, rather than be externally linked to.

From the tools I use, Surfulater utilises HTML but doesn’t allow one to edit the source code; as far as I know, the same goes for UltraRecall which saves both HTML and RTF.

I think InfoQube is a good option, though I am still not proficient in it; I expect PPL (Pierre-Paul) who develops it to be able to provide more info.

Yet another option is Personal Brain, which is not exactly an outliner, but I remember it was very versatile in the attachment regard. All of its notes were stored in separate files and could actually be edited with an external editor from the file system. I haven’t tried this in recent versions so its possible that things might have changed, but I suggest you give it a try.