Sense editor vs Writing Outliner

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
May 19, 2011 at 02:54 PM

Edwin wrote:
>I haven’t noticed Sense before, just looked at it’s screenshot, my first
>impression was - was it a wiki-like local text editor?

Actually no; it’s basically a two-pane outliner especially built for writing. You can think of it as an object-oriented text editor. On the left you have a tree of placeholders representing textual objects (paragraphs, titles, bullets etc) and on the right you have the actual text.

The main difference with a classic two-pane outliner is that you can see the full text flow on the right, not just the one corresponding to the placeholder selected on the left. So you have the document overview and the detail both available in front of you. Something like an MS Word document with an (editable) document map.

>importing documents from external sources is what should be improved
>in the future for Writing Outliner.

Great!