Simple tree notepad like editor

Question

I am looking for very simple notepad that would allow "hierarchical" files editing. Something like TreePad but with much less bloat, more polish and possibly open sourced.

Solution 1

Try workflowy.com

The free plan is large enough for most needs.

It very nicely combines simplicity with depth of functionality.

Solution 2

I don't know how you feel about wiki-like editing, but it sounds like you could use wikidPad.

Solution 3

Maybe you could try Evernote. It has notebooks and tags which can be tree organized (at least they could be in version 2), so maybe that's OK for you? It's not open source though and you actually have to pay for the more advanced features (like OCR-ing and indexing your pictures).

Another possibility is TreeSheets. It's not tree oriented in the same way as the program you posted, it's table based - each table cell can have a subtable, with which you then make a tree structure. It's one of those things you have to try to see if it suits you, but I find the concept very interesting. Also not open source, but it is freeware.

Solution 4

I'm afraid a good, lightweight tree editor does not exist. Almost all of these applications suffer from following problems:

• They use a "rich text editor". Because of this, you constantly need to keep layout in mind while taking notes and it is hard to use a uniform layout.
• They often use a proprietary file format. Wouldn't it be great if your tree notes are stored in HTML natively?
• They have only limited support for switching between recently used parts of the entire tree.

Because of these issues, I just use jEdit for now.

Solution 5

Maybe you're looking for something like this KeyNote. It supports tree style editing, and you can add children to existing nodes. There's a new maintainer for it, since the old author stopped working on it. link KeyNote NF

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Comments

[kenorb]

Related: Tree-structured text editor / note-taker.

[Srikanth]

Since the question has been closed, I cannot write the answer anywhere but here, as a comment. The best hierarchical notepad I have found, has to be CherryTree - in active development and available in MacOS, Windows & Linux flavors... and it's free. Link: giuspen.com/cherrytree

[Josef Sábl]

I am happy owner of Evernote already. But I need this for different sort of things

[Josef Sábl]

Sounds like a challenge to fill this market gap ;-)

[Dimitri C.]

@Josef: The question is how much money there is to be earned by filling this gap. My estimate is 0$, partly because this is an application everybody expects to get for free, and partly because most people find Treepad-like applications good enough.

[Josef Sábl]

Sure, I was just joking, I did not mean to make money from it. Anyway to answer to this question: How much is earned through Firefox? I guess it is not 0$ although it definetly is free.

[Josef Sábl]

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