TREELINE(1)

💖 TREELINE(1) — the manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because i'm about to tell you about treeline — that's section 1 of the manual, so it's a user command, and honestly? she's an icon. 👑

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✨ NAME ✨

treeline — an information storage program 🗂️✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

treeline [qt-options--][infile]

treeline [import-option][export-option][misc-options]infile[infile2...]

like... look at her. two whole moods. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture this: you've got sticky notes EVERYWHERE. little ones. big ones. ones you wrote on a napkin. and they've got useful info jotted down — lists of books, movies, links, website logins, personal contacts, things to do... and when you actually need them? can you find them?? no. i couldn't either. and that is literally the entire origin story. that's the answer. that's the program. 😭

some people would call TreeLine an Outliner. other people would call it a PIM. honestly? she's both. she just stores almost any kind of information — no cap. 🌈

here's the vibe: a tree structure makes it easy to keep things organized. and each node in the tree can contain several fields, which forms a mini-database. the output format for each node can be defined, and that output can be shown on the screen, printed, or exported to HTML. periodt. 💅

so like, the real description:

TreeLine is used to organize and store text data in a tree structure. it is well suited to keeping track of many different types of information. 🔥

each node of the tree can contain several defined fields, forming a mini-database. the format of each node can be defined, and the output can be shown on the screen, printed, or exported to HTML. the tree structure is navigated and edited in the left pane of the window, while various views of the child data are shown and editable in the right pane. and the data itself? stored in XML text files. period. 🎀

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

so these programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-`). a summary of options is included below. for a complete description, see the Info files. iykyk. 📖

💫 Qt-options:

• see Qt documentation for valid Qt options

that's it, that's the whole bullet, she's outsourcing, we love a delegator 🫶

💫 Import-options:

• --import-tabbed — import a tab indented text file
• --import-table — import a tab-delimitted text table, one node per line
• --import-lines — import plain text, one node per line
• --import-para — import plain text, one node per paragraph
• --import-treepad — import a Treepad text-node file
• --import-xbel — import an XML bookmark file in XBEL format
• --import-mozilla — import an html bookmark file in Mozilla format
• --import-xml — import a generic XML file (non-TreeLine format)

💫 Export-options:

• --export-html — export a single HTML file
• --export-dir — export HTML in directories
• --export-xslt — export an XSLT file
• --export-tabbed — export a tab indented text file
• --export-table — export a text table of the first children only
• --export-xbel — export an XML bookmark file in XBEL format
• --export-mozilla — export an html bookmark file in Mozilla format
• --export-xml — export a generic XML file (non-TreeLine format)

💫 Misc-options:

• -o, --outfile=FILE — output filename, not used with multiple infiles
• -n, --no-root — exclude the root node form the output if applicable
• --add-header — add a header and footer to HTML exports
• --indent=NUM — change the indent amount for HTML exports (default=20)
• -q, --quiet — supress normal status information, only give errors
• -h, --help — display this information and exit

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🚨 the rules, bestie, listen up: no more than one import-option and one export-option may be specified. if either are not present, the native TreeLine file format is assumed. okay? one each. i'm watching. 👀

the output filename option can only be specified if there is only one input file. if it is not specified, the input's base file name is used with the appropriate output file extension. and if the extensions are the same, an underscore is added before the extension. 📝

💀 note that this avoids overwriting the input file, but other files may be overwritten without notification if they share the output file's name. so like... be careful. genuinely. 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

you can find more extensive help about treeline in /usr/share/doc/treeline/README.html ✨

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

treeline was written by Doug Bell <doug101@bellz.org>. 🫶

this manual page was written by Miriam Ruiz <little_miry@yahoo.es>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). 💜

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 this was TREELINE(1), source/version vibes courtesy of the Debian project, and the date on the tin is enero 3, 2006 (that's January 3, 2006 if your Spanish isn't Spanishing 🌸). stay organized, stay iconic, and go find your sticky notes. mwah. 💖✨🦋