Indented Outline when pasted to be auto linked

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As per discussion done on Discord , any decent outliner program allows copying pasting of Outline with Hierarchy supported. Currently Kinopio allows pasting but hierarchy goes away. request to maintain the same

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How would you expect the hierarchy to be represented in Kinopio? Is it purely by x, y positioning? btw, your post is missing the hierarchy. Does Tinderbox use tabs or spaces for indentation?

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Thanks for pointing ! I’ve made changes to post , Purely x,y is enough. Tinderbox by it’s nature is very open and allows for tabs, spaces both.

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Are the indents always tab characters or do you use (2 or 4) spaces?

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The Indents are always Tab characters (for consistency purposes) , I tested the same in iThoughts and Mindnode.

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I haven’t used the software, but for reference, OmniOutliner appears to use “tab-delimited plain text files” for import, and I assume that’s how it would output it too: Outlining Software For Pros - OmniOutliner Features - The Omni Group

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sweet, I can do both tabs and two spaces just to be safe

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I think it’d be worth considering other “outline” formats too. Tab-delimited seems common in the “outliner” world, but that is quite niche. Much more prevalent in my estimation is copying a Word document or PowerPoint slide with bullets and sub-bullets and also multi-level HTML lists. I know this is probably a bigger scope than you were thinking, but it’s possible that you could implement the code flexibly enough to handle these cases.

From a user’s perspective, if I’m copying some kind of text that has different levels, it’d be nice if pasting that into kinopio would mimic the “shape” of it.

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this makes sense but ya I think it’s likely out of scope. I’ll wait to see if/when real people have specific problems with MS Word IRL before tackling it

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mvp shipped, cards with tabs or double-spaces indent out when split

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Whoah this looks cool. Going to play around with it.

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WORKING !!! Will test this a bit more and report

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So far so good on my testing on iPad (unfortunately Logseq’s iPad beta doesn’t seem to know how to copy text… :man_facepalming:)

Sidenote: For the indent behavior, your example image above has some overlap, in terms of where cards end and start on the X-axis, vs no overlap with what I’m currently getting (and also current shift + enter behavior) — all that to say, I’d personally prefer having a bit of overlap. Feels like a cleaner way to step down and allow the eyes to follow along.

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