I get what you’re saying about TBX export. I’ve just finished a pretty complicated export. I’m not a comp science person can’t “program” or “script” and when I was putting it together and working from scratch, at times I felt pretty overwhelmed. But I kept at it and now that my export templates are set-up, I have something tailor-made to my task and that is insanely powerful. Creating my end-point file (a project that would have been difficult in whatever software I chose) is unbelievably easy: I literally just click a button. So the pay-off for me has been huge.
That all said, I think that in TBX 6 & 7, a real effort has been put into making common export tasks easier for people who don’t want (or need) to fiddle with templates.
So in addition to Scrivener export, there is an option to export directly to a formatted outline and to an RTF file. Both offer some basic formatting options and produced a standard, usable document that is ready to be revised or formatted in another program. If your needs are basic (e.g. printing off a class lecture as you’re dashing out of your office) the documents are ready to use as is.
The new multi-select feature also makes cut-and-paste (a go-to export technique I use all the time!) much more powerful: select multiple notes and their Titles and Texts stack in the view window ready to be selected and copied.
TBX doesn’t have a “print” command that works the way you’d imagine, but together, these export options cover a lot of the basics scenarios where I’d want to use one and don’t want to make my own templates. They also mean that a full export of all my notes to a familiar format is usually just a couple clicks away.
On a slightly different note, I think some of the very best and most valuable parts of TBX are the “easy” front-of-the-manual tools that don’t get talked about much on the forum because they don’t involve much learning curve at all. They seem simple but most of them are unavailable elsewhere and are the reason I use TBX. Complicated actions, export, etc. are just gravy