Sharing outlines online?

[Doug Lerner]

On Jan 9, 2007, at 9:59 AM, John Simpson wrote:

> On 2007-01-08, at 1942, Doug Lerner wrote:
>>
>> I have liked what I have done so far with OmniOutliner. But I find  
>> the weak part is exporting. The HTML format doesn't seem to carry  
>> the styles through and formatting doesn't look great. The best  
>> export so far seems to be the rich text format, but I don't know  
>> where I can share that. The worst is the KeyNote export. Ugh! :)
>>
>> Most of the stuff I would use OmniOutliner for is for myself and  
>> so I don't usually have to share. But I would really like to be  
>> able to show an outline sometimes to other people - particularly  
>> by just posting HTML somewhere.
>
> anytime i have to share anything, i create a PDF file and send  
> that. it looks just fine to me.

Yes - the PDF file export looks good, I agree.

Let me tell you the exact situation I was in though.

I was using OmniOutliner this past week to update "release notes" for  
some software I develop. I post these to a forum every couple of  
weeks. Usually I just write some notes manually and tweak in some  
basic HTML to bold headings, etc.

But the notes looked so cool in OmniOutliner (!) that I was hoping to  
have a way of presenting them to members in the forum, looking like  
they do in OO.

I could just attach a PDF file, but then the message I post would not  
become searchable in the forums. Plus members would have to download  
the attachment to read it, instead of seeing the release note in-line  
when checking the forum for new messages.

So what I was hoping for was a way of taking the results of OO and  
pasting them as HTML into the forums. That would help make sharing  
easier.

But the HTML export is (1) not a single file and (2) doesn't look as  
nice as the original OO does.

doug