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Posted by criss
Dec 20, 2006 at 08:44 AM

Hi Daly,

don’t forget to try the professional editors like EmEditor, Ultraedit (and Boxer):
You can have an outline within the text (you can define the indicators for the levels, f.e. indents, or A), B) ... ), you can create an “outline” of the texts with a foldertree (explorer-plugin) and you can quickly “format” your text via free definable syntax highlighting (f.e. I create headlines by letting the editor display in colour and bold the line after A), B) .....)
There is also autocomplete as you type (nice for often used technical expressions).
There are many more very useful text editing features (search and replace in disk files, macros, move lines up/down, indent ....).
For organisation I use a rather simple filetree together with tags. I prefix the tags with “::”, so they are easy to find and can be easily replaced = rename of a tag. Most are placed in the first line of a text file after “Tags>”. So f.e. to tag many files at once I can search for the files to tag and than replace in all found files “Tags>” with “Tags> ::newtag”).

best regards
Christian