Publisher's Description
From Green Parrots Software:
You come up with this brilliant thought, or maybe your mother just sent you a recipe for her new chicken casserole. What do you do with this information? With ActionOutline you now have a place to put all your info and thoughts. A simple yet useful organizer, ActionOutline consists of an Explorer-like interface where you can store and arrange all your information in a tree outline form. Arrange items using your keyboard or mouse, cut and paste branches, place checks or tags next to listed items, search information, print data, export to the external file, or link to web or local files. With tabbed multi-document interface, ActionOutline lets you handle multiple outlines with ease. You can share your outlines on the network and collaborate with other users. Your outlines can be protected with strong encryption and password. ActionOutline can be your be-all, end-all solution to organizing your life. When you want it out of sight simply minimize it to your system tray where it's available for your next fleeting thought or item. The possibilities for its use are practically endless: to-do lists, recipes, project notes, personal contacts, bookmark lists, reports, term papers.
What's new in this version: Version 3.4 easily add pictures from your computer or Web sites to your outline notes.
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"Slick, easy-to-use UI, does exactly what I need"
Version: ActionOutline 3.4
Pros
This is an outliner, not an all purpose index-everything-in-one-file app.
1. It has a very clean, tabbed, 2-pane UI without a bunch of unneeded doo-dads.
2. The most commonly used functions (inserting and moving outline items) are accomplished with very intuitive single keystrokes, and the less common ones, even if slightly less intuitive, have a definite logic to them and again - very few keystrokes.
3. Unlike the vast majority of outliners out there, this one can export outline and notes to RTF - *and leave the outline formatted as an outline, with hierarchical indentation*
4. Supports linking to external files or web sites
5. Supports embedding images (see cons for limitations)
6. Tabbed multidocument interface (can have multiple outlines open at once)
7. A variety of easy-to-use and configurable formatting options for outline items to flag them, mark them as done, color code them, etc.Cons
1. I wish it had a way to link to other parts of the same outline (kind of a bookmark-like feature). Not really necessary, just a nice-to-have.
2. It's very easy to copy/paste an image into the notes pane of an outline, but doing so has a HUGE impact on file size. Adding 3 JPGs, under 1MB each, to a 60K AO file resulted in an overall file size of 23MB!
3. Customer support is so-so. They did reply to feedback when I initially installed, and again when I accidentally replied to them instead of a colleague regarding an e-mailed year-end special, but they haven't replied to a couple of general UI feedback/feature request/tech support-ish kinds of questions. There's no forum, for users to help each other, and most google hits on ActionOutline are for download sites. At least it is so intuitive that it's pretty easy to figure out how to do what you want or to determine that it isn't possible.Summary
Summary: An excellent little application. To me, it's worth $40 as it allows me to VERY quickly organize and reorganize my thoughts. It's far above the other free and non-free applications in this respect, and I don't find its price out of line compared to its non-free competitors.
BTW, to the previous poster who wanted to get a product key: they don't do product keys. When you register, they give you a link to download the non-trial version of the program. There is no key to enter to activate it, it's actually a separate build of the software. You can install it right over the trial version without uninstalling, though. The web site does not make this clear at all, but they did answer my question about it.
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