Indigrid
A new medium for your ideas.
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
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.
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Comments and Reviews
Tags
- Productivity Tool
- plain-text
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.
So gorgeously intuitive and responsive while remaining minimal with no clutter. If you're looking for something to remain keyboard-bound (ergonomic) and you just need to record various lists that you made in your head without distraction, this is it. Their design philosophy is a refreshing read too.
All the Awesomeness Ruined...
Because the author would rather enrich Billy boi Gates :sad:
[Edited by cy6ernauti1us, January 22]
[Edited by cy6ernauti1us, January 22]
Fast, easy to use, a lot of functions.
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.)
Best, lightweight, distraction-free app for making schemas, when you're writing book or planning a course/training.
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