TreeLine Features

General
• Stores almost any type of information, including plain text, rich 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, formatting and tree-view icon, can be defined for each node type.

Views
• The left-hand view shows an indented, expandable list of titles
• 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.
• An upper breadcrumb view shows titles of the selected node's ancestors; the titles can be clicked to select them in the tree.

Navigation
• Find commands can search node data for text matches or for more specific rules.
• Filtering commands show only matching nodes in a flat left-hand view.
• 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.
• Each tree node can be set to a type format independently.
• Formatting information can be copied from another TreeLine file.

File Handling
• Undo and redo commands are available for all modifying operations.
• TreeLine files use a JSON format, with 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, headers and footers.

File Import and Export
• The data can be exported to single or multiple HTML files with optional navigation panes.
• A live tree HTML export creates an interactive view with expandable nodes and a descendant output pane.
• Plain text, tab-indented text and delimited table files can be imported and exported.
• Files from older versions of TreeLine (2.x and 1.x) can be imported and exported.
• 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.

Linking
• Internal link fields select a linked node when clicked.
• External link fields can be used to open URLs in web browsers.
• Both internal and external links can be embedded into text fields.
• Nodes that are duplicated by cloning show up as separate clickable paths in the upper breadcrumb view.

Data Manipulation
• Nodes can be sorted by title or by predefined key fields.
• Math fields can be defined that automatically calculate their contents based on numerical values in other nodes.
• Numbering fields can be defined and automatically updated.
• A node's icon and output format can be changed conditionally based on its data.
• Cloned nodes (the same nodes with multiple parents/locations) can be created using special paste commands or by automatically matching identical nodes.
• Text data can be spell checked (requires an external program - see the System Requirements section).
• Data can be automatically re-arranged using categories from data fields.

Customization
• There are many options for customizing both general and file-based attributes.
• There are editors for keyboard shortcuts and toolbar commands.
• Fonts used in the GUI, editors and output views can be customized.
• The user interface is available in simplified Chinese, English, German, Russian and Spanish. Translations into other languages are TBD.