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Fargo, online outliner and more with Dropbox storage

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Re: Fargo, online outliner and more with Dropbox storage

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Post by davewiner »

jamesmccann wrote: post #4

Would be nice to be able to see the application without linking it to my Dropbox.

You can use just the outliner here:

http://littleoutliner.com/

That's exactly the same outliner as in Fargo, using localStorage only.

The other consideration is that Fargo only gets access to a sub-folder of your Apps folder in your Dropbox. The folder is created just for the app.

So it's very well sandboxed.

Re: Fargo, online outliner and more with Dropbox storage

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Post by davewiner »

eknkc wrote: post #3

This is great! I just love the Dropbox integration. My two suggestions: - Keyboard shortcuts for file operations. - 3-5 recently used icons accessible on the main interface.

Glad you like it! :-)

I've added your suggestion to our list of feature requests.

Re: Fargo, online outliner and more with Dropbox storage

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Post by davewiner »

ronreiter wrote: post #2

Awesome! Just don't really understand why Dropbox storage is so much better than just using Workflowy.

Workflowy is an excellent product, but having the outlines in Dropbox means you have copies of the files locally and can share them with other apps that work with OPML, which is a fairly standard file format among outliners.

Re: Fargo, online outliner and more with Dropbox storage

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Post by stuartcw »

Those who remember this family of Software might see some similarity ;-) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Userland_Software#Frontier Just look at the article for protocols that they introduced and popularised.

There's lots of other cool stuff under the hood that you probably won't notice at first, like:

- It's a not just an outliner but it's also a outlined chat/collaboration tool. - It's not just an outliner but it's also a Javascript programming environment. i.e. you can execute functions that that you write in the outlines. - It's not just an outliner, it's a front end to your blogging platform.

Also, don't worry about connecting it to Dropbox. It sandboxes all it's activities under the Apps/Fargo folder so won't go crazy with your files.

Already there is a lot to try out and hopefully this will be the new frontier that we have been waiting for.

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