Outliner

Overview

Quickly create outlines and export them in a number of useful formats.

• Quickly create and navigate outlines using the keyboard or mouse.
• Full support for rich text formatting and/or Markdown formatting.
• Add notes to any outline text.
• Add tags to any outline row.
• Add checkboxes to any or all outline text.
• Close/Hide any group within the outline for increased focus.
• Quick search and replace of any text within the document, including notes.
• Optionally focus on a portion of the document at a time when editing.
• View document statistics such as character count, word count, row count and task information.
• Support for showing depth lines.
• Unlimited undo/redo of any change.
• Automatically saves in the background.
• Open multiple outlines with the use of tabs.
• Built-in themes.
• Support for changing fonts within a document.
• Import from Minder and OPML.
• Export to HTML, Markdown, Minder, OPML, Org-Mode, PDF and PlainText.
• Printer support.

Installation

Dependencies

These dependencies must be present before building:

• meson
• valac
• debhelper
• libgranite-dev
• libgtk-3-dev
• libxml2-dev
• libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev
• libmarkdown2-dev

Use the App script to simplify installation by running ./app install-deps

Building

git clone [email protected]:phase1geo/Outliner.git com.github.phase1geo.outliner && cd com.github.phase1geo.outliner
./app install-deps && ./app install

Deconstruct

./app uninstall

Development & Testing

Outliner includes a script to simplify the development process. This script can be accessed in the main project directory through ./app.

Usage:
  ./app [OPTION]

Options:
  clean             Removes build directories (can require sudo)
  generate-i18n     Generates .pot and .po files for i18n (multi-language support)
  install           Builds and installs application to the system (requires sudo)
  install-deps      Installs missing build dependencies
  run               Builds and runs the application
  test              Builds and runs testing for the application
  test-run          Builds application, runs testing and if successful application is started
  uninstall         Removes the application from the system (requires sudo)

License

This project is licensed under the GPL-3.0 License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Iconography

The Outliner icon was created by Nararyans R.I. (@Fatih20 on GitHub). He has produced a video showing the process of creating this icon with Inkscape here