davidchisnall/openoutliner

Outliner application inspired by OmniOutliner 3

openoutliner's Issues

Rows are fixed size

Related to #7, it's possible to put multi-line text in a normal text cell, but the outline displays this as a single line.

Checkbox columns are not handled

Currently, checkbox columns are not handled at all (and throw an unhandled exception if present in a document when opening).

Drag and drop between documents

Drag and drop works within a single document, but does not work to other documents.

It should also work to other applications.

Notes display is ugly

Notes display is about as good as it can be without a custom view, but a fairly simple custom notes view that draws a nice border around the notes would make it a lot better.

OmniOutliner 2 import support

The OmniOutliner 2 .ooutline file format is now orphaned. OmniOutliner 5 can't open it. It looks very simple: basically a property list serialisation of a dictionary. Each row contains:

• An optional Children element containing an array of children in the same format.
• A Cols array including a string containing RTF for the column contents.
• An Expanded boolean indicating whether the row is expanded
• A State integer for the check box (0 indicating unticked, 1 indicating ticked?)

The format is slightly complicated because notes are stored as simply another column value and you have to find the notes column by matching the column identifier to the value of the NoteColumn value in the root dictionary.

No undos for cell edits

Editing cells does not register undo events with the undo manager.

No way to create new files

No mechanism to change indent level

You currently can't change the indent level of outline items.

Redo doesn't work

Undo works (mostly), but we don't register redo actions during the undo, so you can't undo an undo.

No way to remove rows in the UI.

Enumeration items aren't visible when selected

There's a weird rendering glitch where the contents of the NSComboBox contents for enumeration items disappears when the row is selected. The rendering of these is quite ugly anyway, so probably wants to be replaced by a custom control.

Enumeration items should have the option to be locked

You can't currently set column properties, but when you can we should make it optional whether enumeration values must be one of the pre-defined ones or may be added to simply by writing different text. In the former case, we should use a simple pop-up button for rendering.

GNUstep port

Hi David,

this project is great. During years of my studies I took notes using OpenOutliner 3 (which was great). Now I‘d really like to open them using my Linux box at work. What do you think, would it be worth a try to port it to GNUstep? In the meantime since you published this app GNUstep evolved and got the ability to read xib files. I don‘t know about storyboards though.

What do you think?
Johannes

No UI to add notes

You can edit existing notes, but you can't currently add new notes.

Notes display doesn't resize

Currently, the notes display is a fixed height. We should keep an NSTextView somewhere so that in -outlineView:heightOfRowByItem we can determine what the height of the text should actually be and make the row the correct height.

Checkboxes in outline column aren't displayed

This is probably easier to implement after #5.

No mechanism to add columns.