Plain Text

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Dec 20, 2006 at 08:41 PM

Derek,

If you’re looking for a plain text editor with a hierarchical tree structure, take a look at Treepad Lite, which is free: http://www.treepad.com

It doesn’t have a lot of editing bells and whistles, but it does the basics quite nicely.

Steve Z.

Derek Cornish wrote:
>None of
>these editors, as far as I can see, combines plain-text editing with the two-pane
>topic+note structure the way that NoteTab and the rather expensive DataOmega
>InSight do. Although this structure only allows a crude form of text manipulation and
>is not to be confused with that provided by single-pane outliners, it can be very
>useful for the later stages of writing - e.g., moving drafted chunks of text around
>easily within an overall organization such as a book or article.