Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Getting to Know OPML

David Sparks, creator of the Macsparky website and author of the book Mac at Work, posted a blog entry about three weeks ago titled: Dancing with OPML. If you don't speak geek, OPML stands for Outliner Processor Markup Language.

If you work with mind maps, visual organizers, outliners, or Scrivener then you most likely want to become acquainted with the OPML format. Put simply it will allow you to share information across different programs: such as starting an article structure in MindNode Pro mind mapping software, exporting as OPML, then bringing into Scrivener with your writing structure intact!

There's lots of good things about OPML, and David did a great job of explaining the benefits of this format. I highly advise reading his article titled:

Note: This post has also been published at the iPad blog since going from iPad to Scrivener is one of the great benefits of OPML.

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