How to convert an outline into a table that preserves hierarchy (ie, with a parent column)?

[Paul_Danyliuk]

Hey — already replied here:

How to write formula for turn outline view into Table view?

Hey David, welcome to the Community! I did this by examining the underlying structure of the rich text — e.g. here: You can look into the free version doc that’s linked in that topic, HLP Initial tasks input table. It’s not the most optimal solution there but it may give you ideas. If you implement this now though, be prepared to fix this sometime very soon. Coda is changing the way it stores text, so it won’t be the same structure to examine anymore. Not significantly different but it will …

Particularly here I’m talking about the trick (at the ~1:00:00 timestamp):

Building the GTD doc

When the new Canvas rolls out, the structure will look like this. So if you’re going to implement this now, plan in advance so that your code supports both versions preliminarily.