![]() Other behavior that emulates an outliner includes the ability to move items in, out, up, and down using the arrow keys in combination with CONTROL and OPTION. I like that behavior, because I find markdown in the text to be distracting. When you move the cursor off the text, the markers hide and you just see the formatted text. When you add those markers to the text, you see them as long as your cursor is within the affected text. You can also add bold face and italic formatting with typical markdown (wrapping text in “**” for bold and “_” for italic. starting a line with a number for ordered lists.You can add ordered an unordered lists the same way you do in most markdown enabled editors: You can hide or reveal text and child headings by click on the hashtags. The focussed mode can be accessed by selecting FOCUS from the VIEW menu. For instance, in the screenshot below, I had clicked on the two hashtags leading the heading “So how does it work?” and the paragraph disappears. If this heading had child headings, they too would be hidden.Ĭlick the hashtags again, or the boxed-ellipses at the end of the heading to reveal the hidden material. Click on them and you can hide any lower-level material including the text associated with that heading. The fewer the hashtags, the higher up in the hierarchy is the heading.įoldingText then adds a little magic to these symbols. With FoldingText you use markdown to establish a heading, starting the line with one or more hashtags. There were many other features in GrandView not present in FoldingText. FoldingText’s ability to focus in on a topic with its associated text is reminiscent of GrandView for DOS.įoldingText gives you this same flexibility, albeit in a stripped down package. This flexibility allows you to zoom in for focussed work on a specific topic or to zoom out for seeing the big picture, which I think is essential for crisp, clear writing. Focus in on just the text of a single heading.View some of the headings without text and some with.View the headings with the associated text in one window.One of the things I liked about GV is the remarkable flexibility in how you can view your documents: If you’ve followed my writing about outliners much, you may recall that I am a huge fan of a defunct DOS outliner called GrandView, which remains the best piece of software I’ve ever used, even two decades after it was abandoned and never ported to Windows. It has several interesting and even tantalizing features, but also some significant limitations. It is kind of a mashup between a markdown editor and an outliner, with a few other functions mixed in. FoldingText is a plain text productivity tool with some muscle.įoldingText is an innovative text editor for Mac created by Jesse Grosjean of Hog Bay Software.
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