Shape-based outline vs. text-based outline, which is better?

Posted by Edwin Yip
Apr 20, 2010 at 02:45 AM

Hi Alexander,

I appreciate your comments, using smaller icons and larger line spacing are really good ideas, I’ll definitely try it! Thank you.

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Edwin Yip
Writing Outliner for Word- Turn MS Word into a full-featured outliner software
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Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Edwin, you may find that we are not so typical customers; as far as I know most of us have
>grown up using text based outliners and many of us still do. I think that Grandview is
>still considered the closest to the holy grail of outliners by most people
>here.
> >That said, I also prefer the text approach as least cluttered, even though I
>tend to appreciate more visually attractive approaches in order to use in
>presentations. I think that both versions would benefit from icons being smaller
>(about the size of a capital letter) and/or more spacing between the rows.