Pesquisa de Outliners. OK, you’ve brainstormed to get a sense of the possibilities for your project and you’re ready to get going. The next logical step in the process is to gather everything you’ve already done and all the clippings you have saved in anticipation of this day. It would be great if the iPad could help you gather what you need into a single work area so you could then draw upon those materials in your project and add things as you find them as you go along. The iPad is currently limited in its gathering functionality. I think and hope these limitations are temporary while Apple comes up with their new Finder replacement and iCloud services. My Mac dictionary has this to say about gathering in general: “bring together and take in from scattered places or sources“.
Gathering: How the iPad Stacks Up Search – a way to locate relevant items quickly. Other Gathering Gambits Dropbox. Plain Text. Evernote. Outliners. Two More Top Outliner Apps to Look At OmniOutliner. Thinkbook. 4 iPad Outliner Apps and 2 That Aren't. What I Was Looking For 1. Organization • Label lines • Move lines as blocks • Save, archive and search 2. Formatting • Fonts • Styles 3. Clips • Pictures • A/V • Web links 4. Export • Email • iTunes synch • DropBox and/or iDisk My main reason for using an outliner is to enter ideas and organize them for later editing. I tend to start a new outline for each new topic. Mostly, I write text, but when I need a picture or web clip, I really like to able to grab it.
E-mail and iTunes export is built into most iPad apps. I tried 4 outliner apps. Quick Summary of the Best OmniOutliner is expensive at $20, but if you depend on outlining for research or meeting notes, it is the clear winner. At $1 Notability is the best buy. ThinkBook is best at project monitoring. As a word processor, Pages can create lists, but it has minimal outlining capability. Notability $1 Cumbersome organization. Organization: Number, letter and bullet labeling. The lack of block organization carries over to labeling. Tree: A New Dimension in Outlining. Creating an outline is a handy way to organize, plan and brainstorm. One of the strengths of the outline is its hierarchical linear relationship among the topics in the list. That can also be one of its limitations, as the list can become long and start feeling one-dimensional. The outliner Tree tries to remedy this with a twist on the standard outlining format. In Tree you can expand your outlines horizontally, as well as vertically.
Today we’re going to take a look at whether or not the approach Tree takes actually bears fruit. Tree is the work of Japanese developer Kazuhiro Kawana, whose website is called Top of Tree. Tree has two viewing options for your outline: Listview and Treeview. Tree outliner in "Listview" mode Outlining in Tree The first thing I do when evaluating an outlining application is to just start using it. Tree isn’t hard to get used to.
Tree provides multiple options for re-organizing the notes in your outline. Inline Notes Checkboxes, Numbering and Labels Conclusion. TaskPaper — Simple to-do list software for Mac & iPhone. "A best-in-breed application, offering a perfect balance of efficiency and features. " — Macformat.co.uk 5/5 "It's a very simple, but intriguing and original concept. I've been using it for a few weeks, and it's definitely worth a look. " — John Gruber, Daringfireball.net "Chances are you’re looking for something with a good interface and that ultimately helps you be more productive; Hog Bay Software’s TaskPaper 2.1 satisfies both requirements" — Dan Frakes, Macworld.com "Because, friends, TaskPaper is just about fiddle-proof, and, frankly, I know a lot of people who could benefit from that today.
" — Merlin Mann, 43Folders.com "TaskPaper’s strength is that it lets you focus on crossing out those tasks instead of building a self-referential web of unfinished business which separates you from the cold, harsh reality of all the work you need to do. " — Scott McNulty, Tuaw.com. ThinkBook. Scrivener.