What is Reddit's opinion of TreeSheets?

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Oh my god I can't believe some people don't know about this yet.

http://strlen.com/treesheets/

I use this free software for literally every kind of outlining I have to do. Absolutely 0 time is spent formatting and you end up with perfectly balanced and organized outlines that can be added into at any place. Play around with it for just a few seconds. I have several massive ones gong write now for various projects that include everything I know about the world, characters, and plot. Images for inspiration, quotes I want to use, vague ideas for future chapters, all are embedded as well. Master timeline and chapter summaries too. My outlining obsession is intensified by this program lol.

Treesheets , a mind mapper tool with a unique concept. It was a life changer to me: I could finally use this digital tool to organize my ideas, structure my documents, maintain a to-do list or plan my priorities.

I've been very happy with TreeSheets for the last few weeks. It looks very basic, but it's really just very flexible. I was able to outline my story, add new rows or columns with just a click and then color code the cells for rising tension. It really does a lot. Like a lot of free programs the web page doesn't make it look sexy, but if you look at the screenshots page you get a better idea for what you can do with it. I did all the planning for my article and you can even export to html to have it handy somewhere like Google Docs.

I've run it on Linux and OS X with not problems, and it has a Windows version as well.

It's not really equivalent to Scrivener but, given that you use Linux and are committed to free software, you might want to look at <em>TreeSheets</em>. Maybe it would be tough to write a whole novel using it but it would at least be a fantastic tool for outlining, character and setting notes, etc.

There is a software I didn't see anyone mention it for PKM, it's TreeSheets, it's Open Source.

It's kind of a Hierarchical tree like spreadsheet manager. I never use it in depth, but I think it's worth checking.

TiddlyWikis don't work in Firefox or Opera? Weird; back when I was doing that, I was using Firefox exclusively.

I eventually found TWs got pretty annoying to work with when the number of articles/crosslinks got bigger (lots of jumping around..), but YMMV.

Anyway, Zim. I wanted to suggest Zim to you as an alternative. Everything is stored simply as text files (with wiki markup) in directories, meaning if you're stuck without Zim, you can just use a text editor to edit / create stuff. (and you can version it and etc.. all the usual good stuff coming from using plain 'text files in directories')

It also has a bunch of standard plugins including diagramming (I like the dot based one, but some users might find the 'ditaa' one suits their needs better), code blocks, inline math (type 2+2= in your page and hit f5)...

I augment this with Treesheets for more databasey/tabley stuff. I guess a good synopsis for Treesheets might be 'infinitely nestable spreadsheets'.

TreeSheets "The ultimate replacement for spreadsheets, mind mappers, outliners, PIMs, text editors and small databases." Just install it (available on almost all repo ) and follow the tutorial on first launch. A gem!

TreeSheets is an awesome program for note taking and pseudo-coding. It is like a cell editing program in the vein of excel but is organized hierarchically. It follows a nonlinear style of editing, so you can easily expand notes in between other notes and never worry about formatting.

And its freeeeeeeeeeeee

I've personally enjoyed using Treesheets, for projects related to that kind of thing.

Treesheets describes itself as an "Open Source Free Form Data Organizer" is which pretty damn accurate.

If you like to make lists as much as I do, you'll probably love Treesheets.

It's basically a nested grid. Not very good for long sentences of text, but perfect for brief notes, todo lists, ideas, brainstorming, keeping track of projects etc. I love the fact you can put things next to each other, make tables, comparisons and so on.

Treesheets is like a hierarchical spreadsheet where you can expand the grid to as tall or wide as you need, and a cell as deep as you need. You can collapse to toggle a cell's visibility, but there is an arguably better zoom mode as well that focuses in full-screen previously shrunk cells.

There's a few hotkeys to learn, but there is a good tutorial to get you started with the features:

• There is a cross-cell link hotkey that will auto-jump to an identical cell. While not as convenient as visual arrows, you could set up a unique tagging schema for a loosely similar effect.
• Bulleted lists will require you to insert child cells, but if you forget, you can wrap a new parent around it
• Two paragraphs are forced to take two cells, not one, which starts to resemble a list. While this might be annoying coming from other editors, this restriction does makes sense in a way but can get some getting used to.

I love this for general idea jotting and note-taking, and it's served me well when I had modest requirements.

Treesheets is my go-to for this kind of stuff. It's called a free-form data organizer, or a hierarchical spreadsheet. I'm not sure I know what either of those really means, but if you look at their screenshots page you can see it's incredibly flexible. I mainly use it to outline my stories in ways that let me do things like track the plot horizontally with color-coded cells (to get redder as the action heats up, for example) and maybe the characters involved vertically with each plot point, so I can keep track of who is involved in which events. But you can align by dates, include images, nest cells within cells, etc.

> I'm going through the back catalogue of the Roguelike Radio podcast and just finished listening to our own u/Kyzrati (episode 109)

Oh my, isn't that the one where I say something along the lines that Cogmind will be done like... two years ago? Entertaining indeed xD

> What do other people think about using a wiki-style approach for a design doc?

Everyone works somewhat differently, and I find that sometimes you won't learn what really works and doesn't work for you about a given method until you're already knee deep in a project and it's possibly too late to go back :/

Whether a wiki will suffice in your case could also depend on the nature and scope of your project, and how much of it you plan to document. Wikis have fairly high extra costs associated with markup and maintenance (compared to other more dedicated methods), if that's your thing.

I've tried a lot of different things and ended up relying on just text files again these years. Next project I might consider Treesheets, which is pretty nice, but I dunno, I really like txt...

I used treesheets, which is a kind of unstructured spreadsheet, I suppose. You make new columns and rows wherever you like, connect them by location, background color or whatever. It did a good job of letting me build a table in a linear way with plot but still show other easily understood connections. It's a little hard to explain, and the screenshots don't do it justice, either. It's cross-platform and free. Give it a shot.

I have been using an application called Treesheets. It is a completely free form sort of spreadsheet/database. I can easily embed a block of cells into a cell and zoom in and out of the blocks of cells. The website says the Mac version is still in development but it works just fine.

I start with four cells, stacked, one column wide. Act one, Act 2a, Act 2b and Act three. In each cell, embed another block of cells in which I have the largest level plot elements. In each of those, I embed as many cells with as much nesting as required. Once I get all of the critical plot elements outlined and the timing down cold and I am starting to nest cells that put words in mouths, it is time to move the whole thing to WriterDuet.

Treesheets!

Here is the YT tutorial.

It's a fantastic multi-platform program that mixes a variety of content UX methods. I use it for loads and loads of things, the zooming and folding function on cells really helps with flitting between tiny details about an insect and all the way up to seeing the whole biome.

> Look into Ted Nelson's ZigZag file structure.

That's a pretty cool concept. I don't get why he present it like this super difficult concept though. Triggers lots of vaporware warnings. Personally I found the descriptions on the website confusing, but this paper cleared it up through simply describing the basic building blocks.

He also claims somewhere that mathematical minded people struggle to understand the concept. If true, I think that has more to do to with how it's explained than the compatibility of the concept with math.

There is a java program (closed source, not maintained). There seems to be some derivates http://www.nongnu.org/gzz/ (dead, followed up by another program that uses rdf instead of zigzag as the model it seems. The follow up project also seems quite dead)

I'm not convinced zigzag is a better model than rdf. The advantage of zigzag is of course its very spatial connection.

The zigzag program gives slight associations to http://strlen.com/treesheets/

I use Treesheets to keep track of everything.

In fact here is a screenshot of part of my character sheets on there ;P Its like excel on crack and less of a pain to organize.