This is a great idea!
I think I may well end up using this.
Would it still be possible to do calculations within the heading?
Eg once I have filled in all my headings and properties, how could I make the value of the last property for each heading equal to the average of the previous 3 columns?

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Chris

This _is_ fantastic, Org can do it with column view:
http://orgmode.org/manual/Column-view.html#Column-view

Michael

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 08:21, Chris Barber <c.barber80@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I am planning to record some ideas in org-mode, and I would love to be
> able to set it out as follows:
> * Ideas
> ** | Idea | A property | A property |
> *** Regular outlined notes
> Some notes
> *** More sub notes
> ** | Idea 2 | Property | Property |
> Is there any way for me to do this? Essentially it would function like a
> table until you tab down into it.
> I think this would be FANTASTIC!