Feature requests from an Acta user

Kent Johnson kent at pondview.mv.com
Fri Jan 4 09:57:00 PST 2002


My previous outliner is Acta. (Incidentally, it is still available 
from http://www.a-sharp.com/acta/ and runs fine in Classic.)

I miss two command keys:
- Cmd-D (daughter) makes a new item indented under the current item, 
same as Return + tab in OO
- Cmd-A (aunt) makes a new item out one level from the current item, 
same as Return + shift-tab in OO

It's very nice to have these as single keystrokes.

Another handy Acta feature is, if you have a multi-line item, you can 
hide all but the first line by option-clicking on the triangle.

Finally, is there any chance of supporting direct import of Acta 
files? (without having to export as text from Acta?) The file format 
is supposed to be documented at 
http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.04/04.01/FormatDriver/index.html 
though that link is not working right now.

Kent

P.S. I am used to Acta behavior of Return, it makes a new empty item 
without splitting the current item. Shift-Return puts a line break in 
the current item while option-return splits the item at the insertion 
point.



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