From cards to outline#461

Most people want to create outputs from what they have created in Scrintal.

So there is a mode that seems to be missing, which is to put multiple cards in order so we can read and output them as if they were just a single card. (Without necessarily modifying the fact that they are separated cards).

There are, of course, multiple ways to implement that. Here is one that comes to mind:

One could use a Column to put cards in order, then the Column could have a mode like “Focus Mode” where it opens all cards in the same sequence we added them into the column. All separated by a line or still looking like cards, but cards appearing expanded with their whole text there, as if we were reading a single document (although they are still, in fact, multiple cards).

When in that mode, when we print PDF or Markdown then it could print all cards in a single file.

Also, see #457 . I think we are thinking the same thoughts @Bianca Pereira :)

Reflecting on #453 , I was wondering if it wouldn’t make sense to have a “list type” object within Scrintal, where it could have different layouts:

• card type layout (we just see the whole as a single thing with a name so it appears like a card)
• column type view (appears exactly as columns appear currently)

I see it as an intermediary type between cards and boards.

My apologies as I usually don’t like to give “hypothetical” design suggestions as it is the role of the team, but I thought I would share anyway.

A key limitation of the current solution (in my view.) I do understand it’s about a visual method of (largely) deconstruction into cards but the following need many of us have is to then take that and have usable content (which isn’t a PDF or image file). I don’t know that I’d want to spend lots of time building up a map of my research to then find I’m inherently limited in being able to build up an editable view of the overall content. Hopefully this gets some momentum.
Scrivener does what you’ve described rather well: allows you to select multiple ‘cards’ and then edit them with a deliminiter in a single view.