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Writing Outliner Software Forum » User Favorites: J.J.GYOSCA jjgyosca Microsoft Word Addin for Writers! en-US Thu, 23 May 2013 07:18:56 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://writingoutliner.com/forum/search.php flogger123 on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-3325 Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:35:36 +0000 flogger123 3325@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ Hi. Any updates on this? <img src="https://imagicon.info/cat/13-54/1.gif" /> EricMartens on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-2270 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 18:54:06 +0000 EricMartens 2270@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ The character count of a document in a project is read from MS Word, is it wrong? <a href="http://www.thejumperguys.net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thejumperguys.net/</a> D Mons on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-1187 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:16:02 +0000 D Mons 1187@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ Yes it's read from MS Word, but MS Word has 2 different characters counts : "Characters" and "Characters (whith spaces)" in the statistics screen. The second one is the more interesting. admin on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-1186 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:11:58 +0000 admin 1186@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ @D Mons, The character count of a document in a project is read from MS Word, is it wrong? D Mons on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-1185 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:50:05 +0000 D Mons 1185@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ The characters count should includes spaces (instead of currently excluding spaces) because it's an industry standard (at least in France :) admin on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-1181 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:26:25 +0000 admin 1181@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ @EnergizerGirl, What version of Writing Outliner are you uing? With the latest version it should not have such a problem.Please check if you have the latest version. Thanks. EnergizerGirl on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-1178 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:29:11 +0000 EnergizerGirl 1178@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ AVOID HAVING TO SCROLL DOWN IN EACH DOCUMENT.....over and over and over and over! OK this is making me nuts. If I have 3 long documents open and am going back and forth between them, each time I click to another document I end up at the top/beginning of the document! If I am on page 6 in DocumentA, page 15 in DocumentB and page 21 in DocumentC, when I switch from A to B, instead of being back on page 15 where I was...I am back on page 1 and having to scroll back down. Then back to A where I was on page 6...now back on page 1 Then back to C where I was on page 21...now back to page 1 I am actually getting dizzy! admin on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-1168 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:21:39 +0000 admin 1168@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ @Preston, Thanks for the suggestion and the detailed explanation on it. It'll be added. prston on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-1163 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 04:57:29 +0000 prston 1163@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ Outliner's Greatest Shortcomings for Commercial Writers After discovering Outliner on Bits du Jour a few months ago, I ditched Scrivener and wholeheartedly embraced Outliner. However, Outliner suffers from a couple shortcomings that cause a major hassle for this commercial writer. Quite frankly, it sucks swamp water that two Projects can’t be easily merged into one and documents can’t easily be copied or moved from one Project to another. Those shortcomings seriously hurt the productivity of a commercial writer. Often the advertising ‘boilerplate’ created for one client can be used in another client’s project (subject to some revision, of course). That is why Outliner should possess the capability of easily copying documents to another Project! As it stands now, I must ‘copy & paste’ documents from one Project to another. When a dozen or so documents are involved, that process is a big hassle. Now please let me offer a real life example of why a ‘merge’ function is essential. A significant portion of my commercial writing is the creation of textual content for web sites. Client Jane Doe had a vision of two wonderful web sites for her company. So, I started separate Outliner Projects for the textual content of each web site. After a few weeks, Jane Doe decided to consolidate her double vision into just one grand site. Ugh, a simple way of merging both of her Outliner Projects would have been so nice! But instead, it was a huge ‘cut & paste’ job. Please incorporate the suggested features…and thereby tremendously increase its appeal to the big market represented by commercial writers. admin on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-1159 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:59:50 +0000 admin 1159@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ @pking36330, good suggestion. Actually, (If I recall it correctly), by design Writing Outliner already remembers all original file path of the imported documents, so it's also possible to sync those imported files. However, currently it doesn't remember the exported file path. But it's possible. More discussion on this topic here: <a href="http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/using-old-word-documentsending-up-with-multiple-copies" rel="nofollow">http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/using-old-word-documentsending-up-with-multiple-copies</a> pking36330 on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-1158 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:31:03 +0000 pking36330 1158@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ How about Writing Outliner checking the root documents exported from a project to see if they have changed, and incorporating those individual document changes into the project file (.woprj file). That way if I've updated an individual document in Word, the change would be reflected in the overall project when I open it again in Writing Outliner. I know you can't map to the individual Word documents all over a hard drive that we import into a project, but Writing Outliner should be able to remember where it exported documents to and use them to compare for changes when opeing a project. This is really necessary to maintain version control or you are forcing us to use only Writing Outliner OR MS Word. Or we must remember which is latest or go through a painful version comparison to ensure we are using the latest document every time. admin on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-1132 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:12:00 +0000 admin 1132@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ @EnergizerGirl, Thanks, all these are great ideas! EnergizerGirl on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-1129 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 10:39:24 +0000 EnergizerGirl 1129@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ Love the software: 1) Much easier SAVE function--I am trained to "CONTROL S" automatically every few minutes, and having to hold down 4 keys is awkward. Give us an easy hotkey! 2) The ability to open a .woprj file from a shortcut or Windows Explorer and have it open in Word 3) A longer list area for stored/recent Projects. Once I hit that max now, I will have to hit OPEN and cruise hundreds of files to find the right one (without using Windows Explorer since it won't open that way thanks! I know you have other priorities too-- Sampark on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-1043 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:28:33 +0000 Sampark 1043@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ Hi Edwin, You are right. Corkulous looks like a flexible cork-board application with mind mapping features. I found it very similar to how I thought Writing Outliner with mind mapping feature might be like. A mind mapping function overlaid on the corkboard. :-) This is of course only one possibility of how one can implement a blending of the writing outliner corkboard with mindmapping, and might help serve as a possible model. I am sure this can be implemented in other ways as well, and look forward to a mind mapping feature, in whatever way you implement it. :-) admin on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-1034 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 20:36:36 +0000 admin 1034@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ @Sampark, thanks for the suggestions. corkulous looks more like a (flexible and polished) corkboard, other than a mind mapping app? Sampark on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-1033 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:28:00 +0000 Sampark 1033@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ I would love to have the following features: 1. Auto-saving the project every "X" minutes. "X" being a number which can be changed by the user in the options menu. 2. Splitting into sub-documents(and Rejoining) based on Headings. 3. Mindmap feature (similar to <a href="http://www.appigo.com/corkulous)" rel="nofollow">http://www.appigo.com/corkulous)</a> 4. Exporting individual project documents and sub-documents as PDF Markio on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-1017 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 15:28:28 +0000 Markio 1017@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ I would like to be able to pin a photo or other stuff on the corkboard. And the ability to put pdf's and pictures in the research folder and view in the middle pane. admin on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-980 Tue, 31 May 2011 16:59:37 +0000 admin 980@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ Hi Terje, I agree with you, and that also a feature needed for making user manuals or help documents. Terje on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-975 Sun, 29 May 2011 18:16:59 +0000 Terje 975@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ Edwin, I mentioned this is in the feedback, but I think it is important enough to warrant a mention here also: the ability to make cross references to other notes in the project. Currently, if you want to put a cross reference it only gives you options for the current note. admin on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-974 Sun, 29 May 2011 16:14:49 +0000 admin 974@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ Hi Andrej, Yes, I've temporarily disabled it in the forthcoming version, and will re-enable it once I've added the ability to turn it on or off. Andrej on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-971 Sat, 28 May 2011 02:21:29 +0000 Andrej 971@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ Edwin, I am wondering if in the forthcoming version you dropped the annoying behavior of Writing Outliner automatically capitalizing all words in the document title (or added the possibility to turn it off)? I am preparing a novel outline and it is REALLY annoying having to correct all the titles again after the software automatically ruins them. admin on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-970 Sat, 28 May 2011 00:19:34 +0000 admin 970@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ Hi Tronica, This will be implemented, for sure :) tronica on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-968 Thu, 26 May 2011 13:37:37 +0000 tronica 968@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ +1 for global find/replace function. Thanks for your work Edwin, I really do love this software... and will love even more once I can replace terms across the entire document in one command :) admin on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-954 Mon, 23 May 2011 14:28:45 +0000 admin 954@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ @D Mons, Good to know that! D Mons on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-953 Mon, 23 May 2011 04:01:22 +0000 D Mons 953@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ Yes, I'm uncovered :) I work for an IT department in an assurance quality team . I only have an hour and a half per day to write. Software integrated to MS Word, such as WO, help me save time. admin on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-952 Sun, 22 May 2011 18:26:51 +0000 admin 952@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ Hi D Mons, Great list! All the suggestions make sense, I'm wondering if you are in the IT industry also? At least you are an very experienced computer user! D Mons on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-950 Fri, 20 May 2011 20:07:36 +0000 D Mons 950@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ OK :) here are some improvement ideas for this great tool : - Provide an option to set the size of index cards. On my 10-inch netbook, I can see 4*3=12 cards at the same time, too few to really work with the corkboard. - Allow to select multiple index cards on the corkboard view instead of only one after another - If a Word file is imported into WO and has the same name as an existing document in WO, then the text of the latter should be replaced by the new text, but the metadata are kept (tags, notes, synopsis ...). It would allow the user to apply treatments outside of the WO and then reinjected in WO without losing the metadata previously entered into WO. - Compile branch should create a new document in the root of the branch instead of a temporary document in the Compiled Output because the user has to export and re-import to use it in the story (as far as I understand the merge feature). The merged document shoult aggregate all the notes, tags, synopsis, and target words/chars counts of the source documents. - Allow the user to change the order of the labels, status, and tags to fit its needs or provide at least an alphabetical order, instead of creation order. - Allow to create and delete status and labels. - Reduce the time to display tooltips when you fly over an item, one second is too much, 500ms or 250ms would be better. - Allow to edit keyboard shortcuts to fit user habits (I prefer SHIFT+ALT+UP to move up a document for example because this is the shortcut used by MS Word in the outline view) Keep up the good work ! admin on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-942 Fri, 13 May 2011 16:25:58 +0000 admin 942@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ Hi DMons, Great ideas! Please, keep sending them, I myself am not a writer, so I really need you guys' real life ideas :) D Mons on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-941 Fri, 13 May 2011 13:23:58 +0000 D Mons 941@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ Productivity monitoring feature like in "Liquid Story binder" would be nice : - total editing time of the document (in hours) to be inclued below the creation date of the doc for example - global statistics for all documents in the story folder (global editing time, global words written in each week since the creation of the story eg Week 1 : 25420 words / 22 hours, Week 2 : 19032 words / 15 hours,...). Could be particulary usefull during nanowrimo Sorry I can't stop sending functions ideas :) D Mons on "So, what's the next important feature you want?" http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/so-whats-the-next-important-feature-you-want/page/5#post-940 Fri, 13 May 2011 12:51:29 +0000 D Mons 940@http://writingoutliner.com/forum/ Here are some other useful functions: - apply the page layout (margins, orientation, size, line numbers ...), styles , header and footer from one document to all others in the root folder (story folder or research or notes folder). It's time consuming to apply new parameters on x docs. - Automatically fill properties of MS Word document: "Author" with the user name of Outliner Writing, "Title" of the document with the Title of the document as it appears in the left panel, "Keywords" with the tags of the doc, "Status" with Status of the doc,"Comments" with the doc's notes. These properties of MS Word can be included in the headers and footers and also be printed. Thanks a lot.