Multicolumn support
Finally, I glad to announce that multicolumn support was added to UV Outliner!
UV Outliner 1.5 becomes the first modern single pane outliner for Windows with multiple column support in the world ;-).
This version currently does not support “data types” in columns, but they will be supported very soon.
A lot of headaches with multicolumn implementation were related to supporting export to the .rtf format. Unfortunately, due to the limitation of the RTF format, there still some problems in certain circumstances with the generated multicolumn .rtf file.
However, export to HTML works great:
Example of an exported HTML multicolumn outline
UV Outliner 1.5 can be downloaded using the following link:
http://uvoutliner.com/download/
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Very impressive – it’s good to see somebody hard at work who’s clearly been inspired by the Mac’s OmniOutliner, but is keeping things lean and mean in Windows. In particular, congratulations on the multiple columns (especially offering rich text) – we’ll be testing this out and let you know how we get on.
MadaboutDana
February 10, 2010 at 3:29 pm
You’re starting to move toward what we had 20 years ago with Grandview under MS-DOS. I hope that you’re aware of that app and its features–I’ve been looking for a Grandview replacement (for Windows) for the past 15 years, and to date nothing has come remotely close. Adding columns is a big step in the right direction!
FYI, if you’ve never seen Grandview, I’d be glad to send you some info on it–just contact me via email.
bethel95
February 22, 2010 at 11:04 pm
BTW, if you’ve not read Stephen Zeoli’s recent description of GrandView, it’s a good overview of the features that made GrandView such a valuable writer’s tool:
http://welcometosherwood.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/grandview/
In case you didn’t pick up the implication, my value for an outliner is how useful it is as a writer’s aid, rather than its functionality as a full-featured PIM. I used Ecco Pro in the late 90s as a project management tool (it was great for managing multiple simple projects), but it wasn’t so good as a writer’s tool.
If you choose to aim at a particular market, keep in mind that there are dozens of PIMs and project managers for Windows out there, but no writer’s tool like GrandView.
bethel95
February 22, 2010 at 11:23 pm
Are there any updates?
Or is this project dead?
No updates since january let it seem to be a dead project…
I would have loved a single pane outliner for windows with some of the features of OmniOutliner. The beginning seemed promising.
André S.
August 13, 2010 at 9:20 am
Hello Andre,
There were no updates from January, but the project is not dead ;-)
I continue development of the project.
Please tell me what features of OmniOutliner do you want to have?
Fedir
fedirnepyivoda
August 13, 2010 at 9:30 am