Here we have opened a new file in Leo.
Let's add a node. Choose Outline - Insert Node or key in [CTRL-I].
A new node has been created.
Click on the headline to edit the headline text.
Here we have also changed the text for the first (untitled) node.
Now let's make the second node the child of the first. Click on the node, then enter [CTRL-R]. This will move the node to the right. (You can also perform this operation with the Outline menu.
Here we have entered [CTRL-I] and created another new node.
Here we've edited the name of the third node and moved it to the right with [CTRL-R].
We've added another node...
Changed the name..
To move it left, enter [CTRL-L].
Now we'll add another child node with [CTRL-I] and [CTRL-R]
To move a node up, click on the node and enter [CTRL-U] as many times as necessary.
Here we've moved "Bob" down by entering [CTRL-D] and then right by entering [CTRL-R].
To enter text for node, click on the text pane and type.
To summarize: [CTRL-I] = insert a new node [CTRL-R] = move node right [CTRL-L] = move node left [CTRL-U] = move node up [CTRL-D] = move node down You can also delete a node with:[CTRL-SHIFT-BACKSPACE].You can also drag nodes from one point to another.
That is all that you really need to create an outline, but there is one more powerful feature: clones . To demonstrate this feature, first I've added more nodes...
Now I've closed up the nodes and added a new node at the level of the first. (So, another top level node).
I want to add a list of people who owe me money. So, I open a node and select a person.
Next I enter [CTRL-`] to create a clone node. You can see that a new node is created with the same name as the selected node, but now both nodes have a small red arrow.
Now I've moved one of the cloned nodes down to a new location under the "People who owe me money" node.
Cloned nodes are basically the same node. You just have another "view copy". Let's demonstrate this. Here we've entered some text for the second clone.
Now we've selected the first cloned node. You can see that the text is the same, although we did not enter any text with this node selected.
However, clones are not linked when deleting. We've just deleted the first clone, and the second remains, except that now it is just a regular node.
A cloned node can have child nodes, so you can clone entire subtrees. In effect, cloning allows you to make multiple trees for one set of "leaves".There are more outline commands available from the Outline menu. But with just what you've learned in this tutorial you are ready to create outlines of any level of complexity. In the next tutorial we'll see how to create separate text files derived from an outline and how these derived files can be read back into an outline.
