Part 1 · Getting Started

What Treetor is

Treetor is a desktop editor for notes that have structure. You write in a tree: a Tree holds Branches, a Branch holds Items, and any Item can open into a Branch of its own. Pictures, screen captures and annotations live in the same tree as your text.

2 min read Verified on Treetor 0.1.23(current release 0.1.29)

Trees, Branches and Items

Three words cover the whole model. Everything you do in Treetor — writing, arranging, capturing, exporting — works on one of these three levels.

Trees, Branches and Items. Numbered callouts: 1 Tree, 2 Branch, 3 Item, 4 A child branch.
  1. Tree — one document. A tree has a title and a note, lives in your Tree Library, and exports as a whole to Markdown, Word, PDF or a Treetor Pack.
  2. Branch — one column: the list of items at a single level. The first column is the root branch of the tree.
  3. Item — one entry in a branch: a paragraph of text, a link, or a picture. Select an item and the column to its right shows what is underneath it.
  4. A child branch — the items under the selected item. Any item can have children, and those children can have children — that is how a tree grows.

Screenshots are from Treetor 0.1.23 on Windows; other platforms have the same layout. Something wrong or missing? Tell us.