But novice outline users quickly outgrow that limitation and want to move many headers. The simple operation is to select a single header and move it in some way. Working with outlines is often a matter of locating ideas and restructuring them. Group Operations, Sort and Search, Mark and Gather People do run Leo on Aqua, but this poor columnist was unable to do so in time (the author is enthusiastically helping and we expect to report how to install it on OS X in a later column). DEVONthink supports something like this in what it calls “replicants.” Leo supports clones in an elegant, integrated way. We have tried to spread our screenshots among different applications, so here we show a different example: Leo. Clones can be simple aliases or copies, and in either case can be filtered or processed by agents. An even more advanced notion syncs the changes. More advanced implementations allow branching, where multiple copies are kept and can be changed independently. In the outlining world, it is usually called “cloning.” Simple cloning is like the Finder, where any change is reflected in the source there is only one source and the clone is a pointer to that source. What happens when you want to put something in more than one place? The Finder’s outliner implements this though “aliases.” Such a capability greatly extends the power of the outlining paradigm. Tree structures are powerful, but inherently inflexible. Snipping Input and Drag and Drop: the ability to easily input items from other applications (or the Web). Other Graphical Layouts: the ability to view the outline using a two-dimensional drawing. Multilevel Finder Integration: the “outline” of outlines corresponds to the Finder outline.ĭistinct Meta Levels: outlines about outlines.įolding: collapsing independent of the outline alternatively collapsing any header or paragraph to the first line. Headers and Non-headers: differentiation between headers and paragraphs. Styles: both “paragraph” styles for headers and text, and named “character” styles (as in Word). Ordinary Nesting, Promote/Demote, Collapsing: the basic necessity of outliners. After all, this is your particular Macintosh. You’ll recall our goal is to list all the major features found in all outliners so that you can write your own definition of outliner needs. This month, we finish our survey of outliner features that we began last month.
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