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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.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Proprietary

Application type

Alerts

  • Discontinued

Platforms

  • Windows
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Discontinued

The last version is from 2020.

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Features

Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Outliner
  2.  Brainstorming
  3.  Works Offline
  4.  Sidebar
  5.  Portable
  6.  Outline organization
  7.  Kanban Board
  8.  Full-Text Search
  9.  Outline folding
  10.  Outline mode
  11.  Tree structure
  12.  Side-by-Side View

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Comments and Reviews

   
Comment summary: Indigrid is praised for its simplicity, intuitive design, and responsiveness. Users appreciate its streamlined workflow for note-taking and outlining. It is described as fast, easy to use, and lightweight, making it ideal for creating schemas and organizing thoughts. However, there is criticism regarding its performance, lack of multi-document support, and limited platform availability. Despite these drawbacks, it remains popular among those seeking a distraction-free, native application.
Top Positive Comment
Raveen Kumar
1

The Best Software that you will never use.

Indigrid is one of the software's that I really want to use but cant because its only one one platform. It is basically a note taking software/brain storming software/Personal wiki, etc. It is anything you want it to be. Its simple and fast. Native application.

This is a pure desktop gem. Apps like Dynalist and Workflowy covers all platforms and therefore its much more appealing for me.

Edit: I have switched to Emacs org mode. Has everything I need.

hced

For me, apps like these are worth considering switching OS. Well, almost, at least :)

Cyber Nautilus

So observant of you!

Scrolling through the gushing reviews, I never noticed that this "brilliant" gem only works on the 'Gates Enrichment' monolith!

What a pity!

Raveen Kumar

I have switched to Emacs org mode. Has everything I need.

Top Negative Comment
Cyber Nautilus
-1

All the Awesomeness Ruined...

Because the author would rather enrich Billy boi Gates :sad:

You were supposed to destroy them, not join them!

[Edited by cy6ernauti1us, January 22]

[Edited by cy6ernauti1us, January 22]

TBayAreaPat
0

Interesting, but it doesn't do .rtf ..it's file system looks very proprietary, like some notebooks, and it is listed as a WordPad alternative to which it seems to have no similar function to. At least you can usually get .rtf with some notebooks with a very proprietary system. Lose proprietary files, and one may be up the creek w/o a paddle.. especially if there is no export feature. I'm only taking a quick look at this, and I'm not a programmer, and there may be flexibility to the file system that I'm not aware of.

Guest
-1

Fast, easy to use, a lot of functions.

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hced
0

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.)

kubiskubisowicz
0

Best, lightweight, distraction-free app for making schemas, when you're writing book or planning a course/training.

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Guest
0

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

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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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