TreeLine Features

General
• Stores almost any type of information, including plain text, HTML, numbers, dates, times, booleans, URLs, etc.
• The tree structure helps keep things organized.
• Each node can have several fields that form a mini-database.
• Several node types, with different sets of fields, can be included in one file.
• The node format, including fields, output lines and tree-view icon, can be defined for each node type.

Views
• The left-hand view defaults to a tree view but can show a flat list of descendants of the current node.
• The left flat view also shows the results of filtering operations.
• The right-hand view can show one of three views - for showing output, editing node data and editing node titles.
• The right-hand view is normally split to show data from the parent node and its children.
• If multiple nodes are selected, the right-hand view shows all of their data.
• The output view can be set to show indented output from all descendant nodes.

Navigation
• There is a quick incremental search command to find a matching node title.
• There is a find command that searches through all node data.
• Previous and next selection commands toggle selections to quickly move between parts of the tree.

Formatting
• The dialog for data type configuration has several tabs to easily set all type, field and output parameters.
• Formatting information can be copied from another TreeLine file.

File Handling
• Undo and redo commands are available for all modifying operations.
• TreeLine files are XML by default, but there are options for automatically compressing or encrypting the files.
• Document templates for new files are preformatted to cover basic needs.
• The formatted output can be printed with parent/child lines and headers and footers.

File Import and Export
• The data can be exported to HTML.
• An XSLT file can be exported to work with the XML TreeLine files.
• Tab-delimited tables and tab-indented text files can be imported and exported. Plain text files and Treepad files can be imported.
• Mozilla and XBEL format bookmark files can be imported and exported.
• Generic XML files can be imported and exported, allowing TreeLine to function as a crude XML editor.
• ODF text documents can be imported and exported as outlines.
• Batch file conversions can be done from a command line interface.

Linking Objects
• Clicking on URL fields in the output view opens the link in an external web browser.
• There are internal link fields that select another node based on a reference or a keyword.
• An executable link can run an external program or open a file when clicked.

Data Manipulation
• There are several sorting options.
• The nodes can be filtered.
• A node's icon and output format can be changed conditionally based on its data.
• Text data can be spell checked (requires an external program - see the System Requirements section).
• Data can be automatically arranged using either parent references or categories from data fields.
• There is an outline numbering feature.

Customization
• There are many options for customizing both general and file-based attributes.
• There are editors for keyboard shortcuts and toolbar commands.
• The user interface and documentation are available in English, French and German.