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[dimalink]

Squirrel – Branches and Wind

A squirrel is sitting in a tree. What a wonderful tree. It's so interesting to sit up there. There are so many fluffy branches. They're thick, and you can sleep or sit right there. You're sitting so high up. And there are so many tiers. Sometimes you don't know how high you are. Just look to the side. Sometimes you see how high you are. And sometimes you just jump to the ground and run on.

The squirrel loves fir trees. And jumping from branch to branch. There are so many levels in the forest. Everything for the squirrel. The squirrel sometimes sees nuts and pine cones here. It's all delicious. Birds come flying in. They're all great friends, too. You can talk to them about everything. They fly everywhere and know so much. Birds have a broad outlook. And the squirrel is a musician.

The branches are green. And there are lots of squirrel houses here. And the birds have houses too. So there's a whole city up there. Plenty of places to run and jump. And then you can come down to the ground. And run through the field and forest. And then climb the tree again. And look around. From the very top. And take in everything around. And get your bearings. Forests can be large and dense. Meadows can be large. But you climb a tree and see where you need to run.

In the field there's a good friend – a bunny. And a gray rabbit. But they live in the meadow. Where the meadow is. And here there's both the forest and the meadow. It's a slightly different place. These are the homes of the birds and the squirrel. So many worlds. Good and kind little animals live in them all. They're all doing something interesting.

The squirrel loves to jump and is good at it. You can jump along the tops of the fir trees too. And quickly get over all the obstacles that were on the surface. It's very convenient. Sometimes the squirrel surprises its friends. How quickly it appears. And all because it runs along the tops of the trees. For example. The mole is always surprised by how quickly the squirrel appears. The mole lives mostly underground.

The squirrel can rest on the branches. You can swing from them. A breeze can blow. It's a nice one from above. And sometimes there's a strong wind. And the branches sway, too. And you can even fall asleep. The branches are wide. And you can get carried away there in a very comfortable way. So, after sleeping, he woke up. He looked around. And then he went to his friend.

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[jimharland]

Outlining

I remember my teachers always harping about us needing to create outlines before we started in on reports in school. I had it in my head that I was a good enough writer and that I could just sit down and go to town and I’d pump out a great piece of writing. About halfway through, I’d realize that I had meandered off-course and had no idea where my report was going. Then I’d tell myself that I should’ve created an outline. Even in today’s world of advanced text editors and word processors, outlines are still a necessary evil (or joy, depending on how you look at it.) In my efforts to write more and better, I’ve found that I have to create an outline for anything more than 500 words. Unless it’s me ranting about something, an outline is going to make my words more coherent. I took a look at two outliners. In the blue corner is the reigning heavyweight champion, OmniOutliner Pro. In the red corner is a fresh lightweight, Tree. Each have their strengths, and weaknesses.

OmniOutliner

OmniOutliner Pro 3 is a powerful outliner. Version 3 brought many new features that put it out in front of the outliner pack. OmniOutliner 3 lets you add file attachments to your outlines. You can add photos, videos, links, clickable email addresses and in the pro version you can record audio directly into outlines from the menu bar. OmniOutliner lets you add multiple columns to your outline. You can add as many as you need to make your outline work as you need it to. And similar to Omnifocus, there’s a clipping service (currently not available in the MAS version, but installing the demo from the Omnigroup Web site seemed to circumvent that for me) so that you can grab data from other applications and throw them into an outline.

One of the biggest advantages that OmniOutliner has is its ability to mix file attachments with outline text. It’s extremely handy to throw screenshots you intend to use in a review directly into the outline that you’re working on. You can get a rough idea of what the flow of the review is going to be, images and all. If you’re doing an outline for business, OmniOutliner can let you add contact details to outlines so you can easily see (and get ahold of) people who are in charge of different things represented in your outline. And the ability to record audio is a huge addition to note-taking. I used OmniOutliner years ago in college for note-taking, but if I had been able to record the audio from my professor’s lectures and add my own notes to them along the way, that would’ve been amazing. Imagine going back through your notes and anytime you don’t quite know what your note is referring to, you could listen back to the audio and quickly find out. If you’re worried that audio files will start eating up your hard disk, OmniOutliner lets you tweak the compression of the audio files from Apple lossless all the way down to whatever the worst sounding thing could possibly be. A lot of iPad apps have attempted to do similar things, but having the ability to adjust audio quality, have a real keyboard, and have a fully featured outliner beats a silly iPad app with a notebook paper-stylized UI any day.

Unlike every other outliner I’ve used before, OmniOutliner Pro 3 lets you create multiple columns in your outline. You can designate them as different types of content too. You can tell OmniOutliner that the column will be used for checkboxes, rich text, dates or currency. Telling OmniOutliner what will be in the column will then make it easier to work with the data later and sort it. In a lot of ways, OmniOutliner Pro has replaced Numbers for me. I used to use Numbers to make schedules and draft budgets, but OmniOutliner Pro does the mostly the same things.

My only complaint about OmniOutliner Pro is that sometimes the sheer power of the application is overwhelming. There’s so much stuff to tinker with that sometimes you might spend more time adjusting settings than working on your actual outline. My advice to tinkerers would be to create templates for different types of outlines you’ll want to create. I’ve created a class schedule for one of my schools, and while it’s pretty basic in style, I saved it as a template so I can go in and make changes as they arise and I can even filter out checked off days so I can print fresh schedules throughout the month that include changes but exclude past days that I don’t need to see anymore.

Tree...

The biggest selling point of Tree is its “tree-like” branching outline mode. While Tree has a normal vertical outline mode, it has an interesting horizontal tree mode as well. When you invoke tree mode, Tree starts looking a lot like a mind-mapping application. You get to see how your outline spreads out and it takes on a much different shape than a standard outline. I think the best way to use tree mode is to write out your outline in the standard mode, and then switch to tree mode to view and edit. From tree mode, it’s very comfortable to drag parts around and adding color labels helps a lot as well.

Conclusion

If OmniOutliner Pro is a the power user’s outliner, Tree is the everyman’s outliner. It’s a clean, simple, and easy to use outliner. I found myself taking to Tree faster than I did to OmniOutliner Pro. The UI feels a bit more modern, it has a menu bar button for quickly adding color labels to items and the keyboard commands felt a little more natural. The basics of OmniOutliner’s inspector tab, like labels, colors, and fonts are right in the toolbar in Tree. Things like file attachments, multi-column outlines and a clipping service are all missing from Tree though.

While Tree is a good outliner, it doesn’t have the power features that OmniOutliner Pro has. If you want to add files, columns or use its clipping service, OmniOutliner Pro is your best bet. If you’re a more visual person in the way you think, you might get a lot of use out of Tree’s “tree” mode. I myself prefer OmniOutliner Pro in most cases, but for creative projects, I’ve found that visualizing where a story’s going and how it’s spreading out from the opening scene helps me get a better idea of how it’s going to play out.

[jimharland]

Tree is an outliner featuring a horizontally expandable tree view. Tree assists you in organizing your information, sketching plans and brainstorming new ideas. Tree allows you to store your ideas and keywords in segments that you can sort, re-arrange and constantly refine. Tree is designed to be a lightweight application that lets you concentrate on your ideas.

In tree view, Tree displays your data in a horizontally expandable tree diagram. This offers you a more intuitive way of working with your outlines. You can easily switch between tree view and a traditional list view while editing your documents.

Examples of usage

Tree can be used for

Writing a novel

Travel planning

Recording ideas

Writing legal briefs

Great for a quick hierarchy for websites

Taking notes for academic researches and writings...

Tabs Bar

Tree features a tab bar on the top of the window, allowing you to manage multiple documents in one window.

Plain Text and Rich Text

Tree now supports a new file type to handle rich text with the ability to choose from multiple fonts and styles ( bold, underline, italic ). If, for example, you want to print text in monochrome or need to use a foreign language font for some words, you can change font and style for each word.

You can select the document text format from the format menu or change the new document text format in the preferences.

Input and Output

Tree can open Plain Text (.txt), Rich Text (.rtf) and OPML 1.0, a XML format for outliners.

Tree documents are stored in a native format and can be exported as Plain Text, Rich Text, Word 2007 Format (.docx) and OPML 1.0 documents.

And now it is also possible to directly export a document as a PDF file without the help of the print panel, via the newly added "Save as PDF..." menu item in the "File" menu.

Checkbox, Note, Numbering and Color Label

Checkboxes to keep track of to-do lists, Notes to add information to items and Labels for color coding.

"Spelling and Grammar" and "Substitutions" *

With "Spelling and Grammar" you can check spelling via the spell check service provided in OS X. To use this feature, choose the menu "Edit" > "Spelling and Grammar" > "Show Spelling and Grammar" to show the "Spelling and Grammar" panel. This panel allows you to find and correct misspellings. With "Substitutions" you can, for example, automatically convert your typed URL text to a link by turning on "Smart Links". Also, if you would like to convert all URL text in your document to links,

Select "Edit" > "Substitutions" > "Show Substitutions"

Select the "Smart Links" check box in the Substitutions panel

Click "Replace All"

Now all recognized URLs are converted to links.

If plain text is selected, just turning on "Smart Links" will convert all detected URLs to links.

(* To use these features, please click the selected item and make sure you can edit its text).

Lightweight

You can change the behavior of basic keys (return-key/delete-key/tab-key) in the Preferences. Tree is designed to be a lightweight application that lets you concentrate on your ideas.

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An outline experted as OPML can round-trip very nicely to apps like OmniOutliner...