Software to transform outline into hierarchy of (empty) folders

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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 5, 2012 at 04:31 PM

I have a (complex) outline that I need to translate into a folder structure on disk. Doing so by hand is quite out of the question, but I am currently unable to find a tool that can do this automatically. I’m sure I’ve done this before in the past, so this might be an indication that I’m getting old. I can have my model outline in either tab delimited or OPML format.

I would expect UltraRecall to be able to do it but (a) it can’t import tab delimited and (b) it finds no fields in my OPML. I imported the OPML to Notecase, which suggests it is valid. Yet, Notecase can’t export to a folder structure.

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 5, 2012 at 04:36 PM

Any suggestions?

(Yes, I know it’s rather obvious that this is why I wrote but that doesn’t mean that my postings should be left incomplete.)

Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 5, 2012 at 04:52 PM

I’ve never tried this but DOpus seems to offer a solution. This might involve some reorganisation of your list (to display commas and forward slashes) and then copying and pasting it into DOpus:

http://www.gpsoft.com.au/help/opus10/default.htm#!Documents/Creating_Folders.htm

Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 5, 2012 at 04:53 PM

* sorry, backward slashes

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 6, 2012 at 07:06 AM

Thanks, this is useful to know. Unfortunately I don’t have a license for recent versions of DOpus. The CRIMPer in me would love this occasion to upgrade, but the amount of copy/paste still seems considerable.

I can afford to postpone the activity for a couple of days more, so I’ll look around for alternatives.

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