But one of the most powerful features of GrandView is the ability to see the text of your document inline with the rest of your outline: Document text viewed "inline" in the GrandView outlineĪn important point here is that this text is not a separate headline or node. (Note that the odd cursor blocks in this and other screen shots are relics of using GrandView in emulation mode in Windows XP running on my MacBook.) I always liked this feature of GV, because it is like switching to a dedicated word processor to work on this one section of your outline. We can view those documents in a dedicated document window: Dedicated document window in GrandViewĭocument view is essentially a hoist to view just the text of the document. This indicates that there is a document associated with those headlines. Notice that headlines I.A, II.A.1, and II.A.2 have little down-pointing arrows at the end. Here is a screen shot of a basic outline created in GrandView (I’m running it on VM Fusion on my MacBook - thus the status bar along the bottom of the screen): Basic Outline in GrandView (Outlook, for example is generally a three-pane outliner, in which you have your list of folders in the tall, slender left pane, your list of e-mail headers in the upper right pane, and the content of any single e-mail message in the lower right pane.) That is, you can view all of your information in a single window. On its face, GV is a basic single-pane outliner. In this entry to Welcome to Sherwood, I want to explore my favorite features of GrandView, because many people have never had the chance to see GV work. It had some features that were cutting edge at the time, some of which remain unmatched in modern software.
GrandView was a DOS program that combined outlining, word processing and task management. Perhaps using the term “interest” is misleading, as I am sort of obsessed with these types of applications, and have been since I got my first computer, one of those early Compaq “portables.” Around 1989, I bought a license for an application called GrandView. One of my interests is writing and information management software.
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