#Linux opml editor full
#Linux opml editor software

When I'm done with this step, I have half a dozen headers, under which are many different ideas, all of which are completely hidden.

#Linux opml editor full

When one header becomes too full and fills too much of the screen, I collapse it, so that it hides all the paragraphs already there, which cleans up the screen. For instance, if I've interviewed a dozen people for an article or if I've brainstormed 5 pages of random ideas for a blog or a chapter in a novel, I create headers for different topics and then drag and drop paragraphs, quotes, ideas, etc into the headers or buckets I've created. The third functionality is to collapse things within headers. Voila! A much better constructed paragraph or sentence in a snap.

This allows me to completely rearrange the entire article by drop and drag.įor editing a single sentence or paragraph, I insert a return between sentences, phrases, and even words, drop and drag these elements into a new order, and delete the returns. In an article of 25 paragraphs, I can hide every line except the first line of the paragraph, thus allowing me to see the entire article of 25 paragraphs on the screen at the same time. The second functionality I need is to be able to collapse things. Combined with other features, it's extremely powerful. It's like cut and paste, but a lot faster. This is that in Word's outliner view, there's a button in front of every paragraph that I can drag and drop up and down. The first functionality I need might seem mickey mouse, but it's the foundation for everything else. I really want to quit Microsoft Office forever and ever and ever. So my reasons are complex-sorry about that-but tl:dr will not allow you to understand them. I'm a very motivated wannabe LibraOffice user who currently can't make the switch, because although I'm retired and writing fiction, the power of an outliner for writing in all genres is something I can't live without. But you don't have the functionality that I need, and furthermore, the discussions of outlining on this forum seem to miss the whole point, from my point of view. While working for a java house, I was so influenced by the negative developer reactions to MS, that I've been wishing to move to OpenOffice or LibraOffice ever since they came along.

#Linux opml editor software

I used outlining as my main method of work when a full-time technical writer in the 90s (e.g., Fujitsu Software in San Jose). When all the major Word Processers came along-MS Word, Word Perfect, etc, the lack of outliner functionality kept me with my archaic outliner until MS Word beat the functionality of PCOutline. When I was a full-time journalist in the 1980s, I became very successful using a dedicated outliner called PCOutline. The entire thread on Nabble has the same title as this feature request. At the end of this feature request, I'm excerpting it. FIRST: I discussed this problem in the Nabble User's group and received half a dozen responses from people who support this request.