Pasting Taskpaper-format text into OmniOutliner
OmniOutliner does a good job of importing Taskpaper formatted text files,
[CODE]Header: - Point - Sub point 1 - Sub point 2 - Supporting detail x - Supporting detail y - Sub point 3 - Next point - Detail A - Detail B - Detail C - Last point[/CODE] preserving indentation and converting leading hyphens to oo3 bullets. (I find this useful, because I generate a lot of my drafts in plain text (on a cheap [URL="http://www.renlearn.com/neo/NEO2/default.aspx"]Neo2[/URL] device, or, even on OS X, in [URL="http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroom"]WriteRoom[/URL]), and a simple tab-indented TaskPaper format allows me to nest points in a way that OO3 will understand once I get to the stage of re-shaping and editing). [B]Pasting[/B] Taskpaper-formatted text into OO3 works less well - everything is collapsed into a single oo3 item. This is a pity - I move from WriteRoom to OO3 so often that for many purposes I prefer to copy and paste rather than manually save to a TXT file and then reload into OO3. A useful solution is, from the terminal: [CODE]pbpaste | open -f -a 'OmniOutliner Professional'[/CODE] or, to launch it as a simple Applescript which expands all rows of the resulting outline: [CODE]do shell script "pbpaste | open -f -a 'OmniOutliner Professional'" tell application id "com.omnigroup.OmniOutlinerPro3" set expanded of rows of front document to true end tell [/CODE] I personally do this from a [URL="http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/"]Keyboard Maestro[/URL] macro, which precedes the applescript with a copy action, yielding the work-flow: [LIST=1][*]Select TaskPaper format text in some application,[*]type a hot-key,[*]an indented and expanded OO3 window opens.[/LIST] [COLOR="White"]--[/COLOR] |
This also works as a way of quickly getting a Tinderbox outline into OO3.
(Doesn't work, unfortunately, with MS Word outlines - though it does work with tab-indented text in Word, and in other editors and browsers). |
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