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Indigrid

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A new medium for your ideas—augment your thinking with a text editor designed for structuring lists. Side-by-side views allow 3 modes of thinking.

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License model

  • FreeProprietary

Application type

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Windows
Discontinued

The last version is from 2020.

4.2 / 5 Avg rating (11)
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11comments
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Features

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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Outliner
  2.  Brainstorming
  3.  Works Offline
  4.  Sidebar
  5.  Outline organization
  6.  Portable
  7.  Kanban Board
  8.  Full-Text Search
  9.  Outline folding
  10.  Tree structure
  11.  Outline mode
  12.  Side-by-Side View

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    POX added Indigrid as alternative to Scriptorium
    13 days ago
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    POX added Indigrid as alternative to Quick Scrap Note
    25 days ago
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    braky added Indigrid as alternative to Nex Notes
    about 1 month ago
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    POX added Indigrid as alternative to WebkitWord
    about 1 month ago
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    UniqueGo added Indigrid as alternative to Minimo Notes
    2 months ago
  • depomian added Indigrid as alternative to Tiny Notes
    2 months ago
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    justarandom added Indigrid as alternative to Open Note
    4 months ago
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    POX added Indigrid as alternative to Curiota
    5 months ago
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    POX added Indigrid as alternative to Anotalos
    9 months ago
  • TBayAreaPat reviewed Indigrid  
    10 months ago

    Interesting, but it doesn't do .rtf ..it's file system looks very proprietary, like some notebooks, and it is listed as a WordPad alternative to which it seems to have no similar function to. At least you can usually get .rtf with some notebooks with a very proprietary system. Lose proprietary files, and one may be up the creek w/o a paddle.. especially if there is no export feature. I'm only taking a quick look at this, and I'm not a programmer, and there may be flexibility to the file...

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Indigrid information

  • Developed by

    US flagInnovation Dilation, LLC.
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.2 (11 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    238 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 11 comments and reviews about Indigrid, and it has gotten 27 likes

Indigrid was added to AlternativeTo by markenstein on Dec 26, 2017 and this page was last updated Mar 17, 2024.

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Comment summary: Indigrid is praised for its simplicity, intuitive design, and responsiveness. Users appreciate its streamlined workflow for note-taking and outlining. It is described as fast, easy to use, and lightweight, making it ideal for creating schemas and organizing thoughts. However, there is criticism regarding its performance, lack of multi-document support, and limited platform availability. Despite these drawbacks, it remains popular among those seeking a distraction-free, native application.
Top Positive Comment
Firebrand
Mar 6, 2018
4

Indigrid is bare-bones simple, highly responsive and reliable. Its streamlined workflow allows for at-moment's-notice note-taking without a hitch, reducing the process to the only necessary parts: creating, editing and categorizing, - which helps the process tremendously.

Top Negative Comment
Cyber Nautilus
Jan 22, 2021
-1

All the Awesomeness Ruined...

Because the author would rather enrich Billy boi Gates :sad:

You were supposed to destroy them, not join them!

[Edited by cy6ernauti1us, January 22]

[Edited by cy6ernauti1us, January 22]

TBayAreaPat
Aug 31, 2024
0

Interesting, but it doesn't do .rtf ..it's file system looks very proprietary, like some notebooks, and it is listed as a WordPad alternative to which it seems to have no similar function to. At least you can usually get .rtf with some notebooks with a very proprietary system. Lose proprietary files, and one may be up the creek w/o a paddle.. especially if there is no export feature. I'm only taking a quick look at this, and I'm not a programmer, and there may be flexibility to the file system that I'm not aware of.

Guest
Oct 12, 2020
-1

Fast, easy to use, a lot of functions.

hced
Sep 27, 2020
0

A carefully planned outliner app with shining bright light in the horizon.

  • THE best UI for an outliner out there, period. This guy actually puts some real thought behind his decisions and that shines through. These apps are rare. When you feel that each and every corner has been carefully carved out to be perfect little pieces of art by themselves.

  • Native as hell. Opens up in under 10 milliseconds ... damn, that's fast. Which also means binding it to a hotkey will make it go ON FIRE.

  • Currently a minus, but roadmap excplicitly tells that the app is on its path to overcome this limitation: Currently you're only working with a database format, thus, no separate textfile documents: BUT, this is being worked on and I have huge anticipations for when that day comes.

  • No multi-document support: Again, this is next in the roadmap according to the website. Fantastic!

(I'll try to remember to update my review here when these things are in the app.)

kubiskubisowicz
Jul 2, 2020
0

Best, lightweight, distraction-free app for making schemas, when you're writing book or planning a course/training.

Guest
Apr 2, 2020
0

It seems to be the closest thing to an offline open source workflowy. I love this type of outliner. Currently testing it out to see if it will work with my workflow but the first impressions are very good! kudos to the creator

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What is Indigrid?

A new medium for your ideas—augment your thinking with a text editor designed for structuring lists. Side-by-side views allow 3 modes of thinking.

Indigrid lets you list and group pieces of text in a hierarchical tree structure: so that you can organize big networks of ideas and navigate them—because the emphasis is on manipulating the ideas, instead of designing a document.

It is like a text editor for mind mapping, with more emphasis on text editing and no graphics.

Unique outliner features

Side-by-side views

  • Open up different parts of your outline next to each other by opening it up in a new column.
  • Drag and drop between columns.

Unlimited undo

  • Undo history is stored even after closing Indigrid, keeping a history of all your changes.
  • Undo extended to view operations as well—closing columns, changing filters, etc.

Boomarks (saved views)

  • Sidebar to switch between different saved-views that will keep your columns, and filters.
  • Construct "dashboards" of your different projects so you aren't spending as much time navigating your outline.

Characteristics at a glance

Plain text

  • No formatting keyboard shortcuts or toolbars to get in your way, just good ol' portable plain text.

Two modes

  • Normal mode for when the focus is on operations at an element level—delete to delete an entire block of text.
  • Edit mode for when the focus is on individual letters.

Single database

  • No file operation, i.e. save and open.
  • Automatically opens in background to corruption-resistance database that can survive power outages.

Keyboard centered

  • Designed for touch typists.
  • Every operation possible with the mouse, is possible using the keyboard—never leave the keyboard.