Annotation Organization

I'm wondering if there's a software that allows more flexibility when writing comments (line breaks, indentation, bullets, etc.). The structure of annotation, from what I've noticed, seems somewhat universal—a lot of the time it's like a big wall of text.

I've finally started revisiting games, but when making comments, it's kind of hard to 'link' each idea or follow-up because of how the different lines become broken up and branch off. I want the control to be able to do that.

Of course, spending more time practicing annotations and becoming familiar with the structure would benefit—but even still, it seems fairly limited in the amount of control or organization it'll let you have. I just want to be able to study and write things easier in a way that I can understand.

* I could definitely write annotations in text format, but am not sure if there's a way to convert it to pgn with things in place. This software would have to give you the freedom I'm speaking of while also being able to then convert the moves and comments in the correct order. I use HIARCS & ChessX for mac.

The pgn standard allows games to be easily shared 

If you start putting in the ability to have line breaks, bullets, indentations, fonts, colors, etc., then it would lose that essential quality-- shareability.

Correct—you wouldn't just share the incorrectly formatted file, instead there'd be an option to have the software arrange things back to the original pgn layout. This, of course, is only if a program like this exists, and the reason for my post.

The main idea was an application that gave more 'creative'? control - over the structure of annotations. Again, yes, the structure does take some adjustment and getting used to, but getting used to something doesn't necessarily mean its usability is helpful, especially to newcomers or non-analytical thinkers.

The ability to write things in a way that makes sense for you specifically, then be able to reformat it to pgn, would be something I could see many people taking advantage of. I guess something similar to: word, pdf, txt... or maybe png, jpg, tiff, svg converstion is a way to think about it.

Excellent question! (I checked other/old Forum topic posts... still can't find a solid answer to offer though!)

Did come across this (old post -- 2016!-- and I did not check out SCID or the videos yet!)

https://www.chess.com/blog/SamCopeland/tutorials---scid-for-the-chess-student

Any new info out there?

Is SCID the best idea? (I've not yet explored it!)

scid gives me some graphics errors and reboots my machine sometimes. Other suggestions are appreciated if available. I use linux mint xfce on an old laptop, though.