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sending outlines to other people - using Fargo / Small Picture
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Posted by jimspoon
Apr 25, 2014 at 08:08 PM
Hi folks.
I was trying to walk my bro through a rather detailed procedure. I had my notes in outline form (in infoqube). I thought the instructions might be more intelligible to my brother if he were able to see them in outline form rather than continuous text.
Anyway what I did was paste the outline from Ecco Pro into a Fargo outline. Then I Fargo, I clicked on File > View in Reader. This loaded the outline in another webpage. I copied the link to the webpage, and I have pasted a short link below:
Consider the possibilities !! Lots of people don’t have any kind of outliner installed, and this could be a way of sending them outlines that they could use. They might need a little instruction on how to collapse and expand items.
jim
Posted by Dr Andus
Apr 25, 2014 at 09:15 PM
jimspoon wrote:
>Consider the possibilities !! Lots of people don’t have any kind of
>outliner installed, and this could be a way of sending them outlines
>that they could use. They might need a little instruction on how to
>collapse and expand items.
Thanks for sharing that. I didn’t realise Fargo had that functionality. Good to know.
Workflowy also has a similar feature, though the additional instant hoist feature might confuse a novice user (e.g. if they accidentally click on the bullet point):
http://blog.workflowy.com/2011/08/23/share-and-collaborate-on-your-workflowy-lists/
Posted by Paul Korm
Apr 26, 2014 at 11:41 AM
This is very useful, thank you Jim.
It appears, from the URL created by File > View in Reader, that there are other possibilities here. The front-end of the URL is
“http://reader.smallpicture.com/?opmlurl=”
after the “?opmlurl=” portion we can copy a direct link to the underlying OPML file - for downloading, offline editing, etc. Also, if you wanted to use “smallpicture.com” for OPML created outside Fargo you could.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Apr 29, 2014 at 07:10 PM
Thanks to all for these tips.The Small Picture reader looks especially useful, though for the moment expand/collapse doesn’t seem to work with my Android tablet.
I use Checkvist for sharing outlines. It works well and is intuitive even for people not familiar with other outliners.
Posted by jimspoon
Apr 29, 2014 at 09:34 PM
Thanks Alexander, I had forgotten about Checkvist even though I had used it before and liked it very much. I think it might be a bit more intuitive than Workflowy for sharing outlines with people.
I saw a banner on Checkvist about dropbox integration - as of yesterday all checkvist outlines (opml format) can be backed up in a zip file to dropbox.
http://checkvist.tumblr.com/post/84108859311/improved-backup-dropbox-integration-and-some-fixes
It seems that Small Picture displays a read-only version of an outline, and it might be mouse only too - it didn’t seem that any keyboard shortcuts worked for expanding and collapsing the outline, will have to check on that. Because of this - checkvist would be a better solution for me. Thanks for the reminder!