This is a very hard sell. We do in app across macOS, iOS and iPadOS what macOS does in Finder. It looks like nothing original whatsoever. Dead boring, no wow, no fuzzbox. But wow was this hard and fiddly and detailed work. It came with so many unexpected issues, especially on iOS.
And, like @alvinc, I also use the {TOC} trick in my own long form writing. It helps looking at the structure on the right, but obviously a fully designed outline can do heaps more and in a more practical way (ithout scrolling up).
It kills me not to tell you already how outline will work. But we move so carefully, others move so fast, and we get copied so quickly, I would kick myself if we get copied before we present it.
We had to do this first to make it work. I was stunned how boring it looks but how satisfying it is to use and how much it helped me with my personal book project.
I feel more and more satisfied with the tree view: this may not be something big as other apps like Apple Notes, Bear may be providing however folders/tags and files/notes are always split against. And on iA from the article I am working on to the structure itās just a step rather than twice or more.
For outline I will also use the Split View. Sometimes I will switch off auto scrolling.
Oliver ā thanks so much for engaging here. Long time fan of what youāve built.
Is there any chance this āMakerās Knowledge and The Present of Timeā is available anywhere? What little I see in this screenshot is fascinating and I want to know more.
Thank you, thatās excellent news that itās on its way.
Will the outline be navigable so we can click a heading and jump to that section of the document? And will it be possible to reorganize the document itself by dragging the headers into a different order in the outline?
Thank you. Iād like to finish it this year. If it becomes a more than a long text, it will likely take another year for editing and so on. But youāll hear about it on our blog here and there. Iāll give a talk on the topic next week at a conference in Hamburg: Agenda Conference 2024 ā Product at Heart - A conference for curious product people
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Thats a very useful option to have when writing. I often find myself adding comments at the end of a session, to remind myself of a thought/idea for when I begin again. Or to comment the idea behind a given paragraph. A very nice and subtle implementation.
