two pane outliner question

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jul 31, 2011 at 10:38 AM

Nathan,

If I understand your question correctly, you want to be able to organize a collection of smaller outlines, each of which can be stored in categories. Essentially an outline of outlines. If this is the case, I think your options are limited, but there are options.

There’s an older application called InfoStore. It is still available, but not being developed. In your outline, you could create a text note or an list note. The list note could have hierarchy. Here’s the link: http://www.mhsoftware.co.uk/infostore/infostore_main_details.htm

Then there is Debrief Notes, which has a folder structure in which you can store many kinds of notes, including an outline note. I wrote about Debrief on my blog. Here’s that link: http://welcometosherwood.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/a-brief-look-at-debrief/

In MyInfo (and likely other options that are not coming to mind at the moment) you can have several outlines open at once accessible via separate tabs, but I don’t think that’s exactly what you’re looking for. But you could jury rig this, somewhat, by making one of your outlines a list of your other outlines, and create hyperlinks to them. I used to do this with the DOS program GrandView. Worked pretty well, actually.

Hope this is of some help.

Steve Z.