quick convert from tab-indented text outline to opml?

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Posted by jimspoon
Nov 3, 2013 at 06:15 PM

related question - what programs can open/import a plain-text tab-indented outline, and save/export to the same format?

here are some results of my quick experimentation:

tkoutline - file/open, drag and drop of txt file does not work; file/import from/indented ascii does work. File/Save saves to a format I don’t recognize - specific to tkoutline? File/Export To/Ascii option.

opml editor - file/open opens up a tab-indented txt file and preserves the indents. File/Save saves to OPML format. No option to save or export to tab-indented text format.

Fargo - File/Open opens up only OPML files stored in Dropbox folder. I don’t see a way to open up a plain-text tab-indented outline file. Don’t see a way to save/export to a tab-indented plain text file.

noteliner - crashed when I tried file/open to open a plain-text tab indented outline. no file/import option. Has File/Save As/Text option.

treeline - has “file/import/tab-indented text, one node per line” option, but I got a “improper format” option when I tried to import my tab-indented outline. Has File/Export/Text option, didn’t try it.

Posted by Eduardo Mauro
Nov 3, 2013 at 07:17 PM

ConnectedText can import OPML files and export to indented text files.

Posted by Eduardo Mauro
Nov 3, 2013 at 07:17 PM

And the reverse as well.

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 3, 2013 at 10:35 PM

Notecase Pro can read and write a variety of formats, including OPML (1.0 I believe) and tab indented text. It can also work directly with such formats, if you find them convenient for permanent use. I seem to recall that it can’t handle inline notes in OPML but this should not be a problem with transfering info between OPML and tab indented text, because the latter also doesn’t support inline notes as such—it saves everything in a similar way, making no distinction between ‘titles’ and ‘content’, other than the hierarchy level.

Posted by jimspoon
Nov 4, 2013 at 12:19 AM

thanks Alexander. I’ve been experimenting with Notecase Pro just now. When I opened up my test tab-indented plain-text outline file - either by File/Open or File/Import - it all appears as a single note, rather than multiple notes (parents and children).

When I selected File/Import, the “Import from File” dialog does allow you to select “Tabbed text file (*.tab)” as the format of the file to be imported. Then you can browse for *.tab files. I renamed my test file, changing the extension from .txt to .tab. When I imported the text from the renamed file, each line was imported as a separate note. The parent/child relationships between the notes was shown in the navigation tree pane on the left.

So, it appears that Notecase Pro can do the job, but you have to change the file extension first.

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