OmniOutliner does a good job of importing Taskpaper formatted text files,
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 Neo2 device, or, even on OS X, in WriteRoom), 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).
Pasting 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:
or, to launch it as a simple Applescript which expands all rows of the resulting outline:
I personally do this from a Keyboard Maestro macro, which precedes the applescript with a copy action, yielding the work-flow:
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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
(I find this useful, because I generate a lot of my drafts in plain text (on a cheap Neo2 device, or, even on OS X, in WriteRoom), 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).
Pasting 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:
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
- Select TaskPaper format text in some application,
- type a hot-key,
- an indented and expanded OO3 window opens.
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Last edited by RobTrew; 2011-01-10 at 10:40 PM..