http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/ 2006-02-02T15:13:46+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/ http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2005-09-21T15:33:36+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=actionoutline&rev=1127331216 ActionOutline is a two pane outliner for windows, using a treeview to organize the outline and a rich text editing page for the outline itself. There are predefined “tags” that you can use to label your outline nodes in the treeview. ... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:19+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=advanced_node_manipulations&rev=1125388579 Working with outlines is often a matter of locating ideas and restructuring them. The simple operation is to select a single header and move it in some way. But novice outline users quickly outgrow that limitation and want to move many headers. Some... text/html 2005-10-08T14:26:42+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=antique_outliners&rev=1128796002 Antique outliners DOS GrandView MaxThink ThinkTank Windows Ecco Pro Mac MORE Amiga Flow Outliner ... text/html 2006-02-02T14:34:14+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=basic_features&rev=1138908854 There are certain absolute basic features something needs to be called an outliner. These features do not have to be the only way of manipulating content, but they are the touchstone of an “outliner”. Things missing these features are no... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:22+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=basic_terminology&rev=1125388582 There are a lot of outliners, and each has its own vocabulary. For the purpose of discussing outliners in general on this Wiki, the following loose definitions are used: Node - a discrete unit of text that an outliner can manipulate When discu... text/html 2005-12-23T11:17:45+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=bonsai&rev=1135354665 Bonsai is an outliner for Palm with a matching Windows desktop. It does all the usual tree and priority lists, as well as icons and colors. ... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:22+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=brainforest&rev=1125388582 BrainForest by UltraSoft. ... text/html 2005-09-22T18:00:02+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=brainstorm&rev=1127426402 BrainStorm is a mind-mapping program with an outliner-like front end. This software has a long heritage going back to CP/M days. This may explain some of the user interface quirks. The current Windows version is a reimplementation of the DOS version... text/html 2005-09-21T15:34:47+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=buzz&rev=1127331287 Buzz is a single pane outliner written in Python. It is used by the program author as a note-taking and data collection tool. Buzz is cross-platform and features an innovative HTML export facility. It uses a standard tree widget to display data, a... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:24+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=cloning&rev=1125388584 Tree structures are powerful, but inherently inflexible. What happens when you want to put something in more than one place? The Finder’s outliner implements this though “aliases.” Such a capability greatly extends the power of the outlining paradig... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:25+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=columns&rev=1125388585 Although tree structures are natural and powerful, they do have significant limitations. Anybody creative can run up against these limits. We’ve already mentioned a couple tricks: links and clones. Here’s another really significant one that takes ad... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:26+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=dart_notes&rev=1125388586 Dart Notes is a free two pane outliner. The program is long in the tooth now and no longer maintained. Dart Notes is notable primarily as the inspiration for KeyNote. On the program webpage the author recommends use of KeyNote as an active alternati... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:27+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=deep_notes&rev=1125388587 Deep Notes website. Deep Notes is a free, simple outliner with full keyboard controls. ... text/html 2005-11-25T17:51:33+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=embedding_external_objects&rev=1132959093 Some outliners are usually designed to be friendly to capturing a thought by quickly typing and then going back and refining. But others are designed to capture information that pre-exists in digital form, like a snippet manager or scrapbook with or... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:29+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=exporting&rev=1125388589 Many users of outlines do not consider the outliner as a dead end, but as part of a workflow that spans several applications. That means at a certain point the outliner needs to export structured information. There are a few standards that are emerg... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:31+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=external_links&rev=1125388591 Simple outliners only contain content that is explicitly entered or imported into the document. More advanced outliners can link to external sources. Simple links are usually URL-like text or badges that when clicked open a file or Web page. More ad... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:32+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=external_scripting&rev=1125388592 The most scriptable application—by far—of the straight outliners we consider, is OmniOutliner. You can readily write AppleScripts, and there are lots of user-contributed scripts that do all sorts of neat things including custom integration with othe... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:33+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=file_system_integration&rev=1125388593 Even better is when you have the higher level outline integrated within the operating system file browser. We don’t have a strong collection of applications that support this, but NoteTaker comes pretty close. It has a “library” of outline files. T... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:33+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=folding&rev=1125388593 This is the one function whose name is confusing because many products use the term for what we called “collapsing” above. For this article, collapsing is the process of making whole headers and paragraphs invisible, tucking them up under a “parent.... text/html 2006-02-02T14:33:46+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=frontier&rev=1138908826 The new OPML outliner by Dave Winer looks like it’s going to be ripped from Frontier. The outliner is one of the smaller parts of Frontier. It has quite a spartan look. All the bullets are the same right facing triangle (except comments). Nodes with... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:35+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=genius&rev=1125388595 Genius looks like a two pane outliner built on .NET. ... text/html 2005-09-21T15:48:56+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=gnomeoutliner&rev=1127332136 Gnome Outliner exists more as a specification than a working project at the moment. It is an open source project to establish an outliner application for the Gnome desktop. As such, it is mainly targeted at Linux, BSD and Solaris users. A general d... text/html 2006-02-02T14:34:07+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=graphical_displays&rev=1138908847 Columns are great for many uses. But there is another two-dimensional display that is popular and useful: nested diagrams of different sorts. There are several different philosophies connected to such displays, some reaching religious fervor. What y... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:37+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=groove_outliner&rev=1125388597 Groove Networks’ collaborative office suite includes an outliner. ... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:38+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=hnb&rev=1125388598 The cryptically named hnb (standing for Hierarchical NoteBook) is a ncurses (console) based outliner. It is designed to structure various snippets of data in one place. Features include: check-box trees with percentages and priorities searching ... text/html 2005-09-21T15:54:28+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=hog_bay_notebook&rev=1127332468 Three pane outliner for the Mac. The developer has been profiled on microisv.com. ... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:40+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=hoist&rev=1125388600 A key utility of outlines is that you can see the structure of very large documents, yet zoom in on any one part. “Hoisting” allows you to do something in between. If you select a header in some outliners and hoist that header, what you get is a vie... text/html 2005-10-01T15:02:48+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=in-browser_xoxo_outliner_experiment&rev=1128193368 http://www.decafbad.com/2005/07/map-test/tree2.html ... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:40+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=infotree&rev=1125388600 InfoTree is a two (or more) pane outliner written in Visual Basic. It is pitched as an information management tool, and has capable features for personal database management and bookmarking of important information. However, some may find the interf... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:41+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=inspiration&rev=1125388601 Inspiration is a cross-platform outliner for Windows and Mac. It is aimed at the education market and seems to be specialising in the mind-mapping segment. There is a demo available at their website. ... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:42+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=instant_outlining&rev=1125388602 Instant outlining is a feature that emerged from Frontier. It periodically polls a server for an outline and merges it into the currently opened outlining. So, as the remote author updates his outline it appears updated in your view. The outline the... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:43+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=internal_links&rev=1125388603 Quite apart from external links, many outliners support internal links as well. A simple implementation uses Web-like hypertext to take you to another place in the outline, or even in another outline reachable by your machine. A more complete implem... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:43+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=internal_scripting&rev=1125388603 Some outliners are designed so that every operation that occurs must be performed by the user. But others have a variety of automatic operations, the most common of which is word/phrase recognition for indexing, tagging, and some layout. An example ... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:44+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=iron_lute&rev=1125388604 Iron Lute is an interesting project that has been in development off and on for about three years. Designed by Jeremy Bowers it is written completely in Python and is currently using GTK as it’s graphical toolkit. No public release has yet bee... text/html 2005-09-21T15:43:15+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=joe&rev=1127331795 JOE is an open source outliner written in Java, using the Swing graphics toolkit. It is cross-platform, running on Mac, Windows and Linux. JOE runs in a single pane and supports basic outlining operations and scripting. ... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:45+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=jot&rev=1125388605 Jot+ Notes by King Stairs Software is marketed as a note taking program. It is a two pane outliner combining a hierarchical tree view with a rich text editing control for the note pages. Key features cited from their web page include: Rich text pa... text/html 2005-09-21T15:51:47+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=juristudents&rev=1127332307 This program is produced by Stare Decisis software although it is difficult to find on the web nowadays. I believe it was originally written for the Mac and ported to the PC, which explains the brushed metal look of the application and the slightly ... text/html 2005-09-21T15:39:22+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=keynote&rev=1127331562 Keynote is an open source outliner written in Delphi. It is one of the best two pane outliners available on any platform at any price. The software is mature and very stable. Keynote uses a treeview widget as a contents page in the left pane, and a... text/html 2005-12-06T11:43:37+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=leo&rev=1133887417 Leo is a programmer’s outliner, and a Python programmer’s outliner at that. It was designed as a Literate Programming tool. ... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:48+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=link_properties&rev=1125388608 Ordinary outlines capture a rather simple relationship: something is at a level under, over, or the same as something else. By named and typed links, Tinderbox allows us to relate two notes according to an arbitrary relationship independent of the o... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:48+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=maxthink&rev=1125388608 From http://weblog.ib.hu-berlin.de/?p=2470: To Tag or Not to Tag, That Is the Question - eine Kolumne von John C. Dvorak im PC Magazine, der auch ein wenig Netzgeschichte weitergibt: I recall a crazy concept back around 1997–1998, whereby you’d su... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:49+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=more&rev=1125388609 the link:http://www.outliners.com/ ... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:50+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=multi-level_outlining&rev=1125388610 All outliners share the basic ability to collect nodes into simple parent-child relationships. There are several elaborations on this basic theme, however they all share something in common: The ability to somehow attach full outlines to a node, and... text/html 2005-11-08T13:03:50+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=my_life_organized&rev=1131473030 MyLife Organized This personal task outliner will help you to organize your goals, projects and tasks into a tree. The to-do list with actions that require immediate attention will be generated. This to-do list will be sorted to keep you focused on ... text/html 2005-09-21T16:02:02+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=myinfo&rev=1127332922 ... text/html 2005-09-21T15:36:58+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=natara_bonsai&rev=1127331418 Natara Bonsai ... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:51+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=node&rev=1125388611 A basic text editor such as Notepad on Windows works with one flat span of text. In general, in addition to typing text into this flat span, you can perform certain manipulations on this span, such as a Find/Replace operation. You can also select a ... text/html 2005-12-06T11:42:06+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=nota_bene&rev=1133887326 While ostensibly a word processor, Nota Bene appears to have more emphasis on structure through strong outlining capabilities. ... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:53+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=notelens&rev=1125388613 PC companion product to the Mac outliner Hog Bay Notebook. ... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:53+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=notemap&rev=1125388613 CaseSoft NoteMap Probably the best one pane outliner available presently Targetted at lawyers Exports directly into MS Word Feels like an office application more than an idea processor No scripting interface or programmability. Inline styles ... text/html 2005-11-27T11:35:53+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=olive&rev=1133109353 Olive ... text/html 2005-11-27T11:37:00+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=opml_browser_by_voidstar&rev=1133109420 Voidstar's OPML Browser ... text/html 2005-11-27T11:37:46+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=opml_browser_by_yabfog&rev=1133109466 OPML Browser by Dan McTough ... text/html 2006-02-02T14:34:05+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=opml_conventions&rev=1138908845 Suggestions for producing OPML that is compliant and easy to parse References: Full OPML 1.0 specification 16/10/2005 - Dave Winer has put up Guidelines for validating OPML The OPML spec is very flexible, allowing the creation of arbitrary elemen... text/html 2005-09-21T16:00:07+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=opml_creator&rev=1127332807 OPML Creator is an open source OPML editor. It is written in C#. The codebase is broken up into two parts. The OPML_Creator class hierarchy which handles all the editing and handling of OPML files and the GUI which uses the classes. The GUI is a for... text/html 2005-09-21T15:27:49+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=opml_editor&rev=1127330869 OPML Editor is a specialist outliner based on the Frontier kernel. It shares features with Frontier but is targetted towards internet usage, with a more accessible interface and in-built support for blogging, RSS reading and instant outlining. ... text/html 2005-11-27T11:48:17+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=opml_surfer&rev=1133110097 http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/opmlsurfer.aspx ... text/html 2006-02-02T14:31:21+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=outliner_features&rev=1138908681 No two outliners are alike, but there are certain common features frequently found in outliners: Basic Features - nesting, promotion and demotion, collapsing Styles - the ability to style text Multi-level Outlining - along with traditional outli... text/html 2006-02-02T14:28:05+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=outliners&rev=1138908485 If you are looking for older outliners, check out the Antique outliners section. Windows ActionOutline AnyNotes ADM Buzz BrainStorm DaRT Notes Frontier Genius Groove Outliner InfoSelect InfoTree Inspiration Keynote JOE Jot+ Juristu... text/html 2005-09-21T15:57:20+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=outthink&rev=1127332640 Outthink is a simple single pane outliner written in Python that runs on Windows. It uses the wxPython toolkit for the GUI, and the standard system TreeView widget to display the outline. Because of this, it is limited to single line unwrapped nodes... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:57+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=pdesk&rev=1125388617 PDesk is the desktop companion to Progect. ... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:58+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=progect&rev=1125388618 Progect is a cool little Palm outliner. As the name suggests, Progect focuses on project management. While you can use Progect as a text only outliner, it has additional features that make task tracking easy. Apart from text there are two other type... text/html 2005-08-30T03:56:58+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=quick_outliner&rev=1125388618 Quick Outliner is a small, free two-pane outliner. From the website, its features include: Very little size of occupied memory. Simple interface. Compact databases. Automatic flushing of entered data. It eliminates needs to press ‘Save&rs... text/html 2006-02-02T14:36:40+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=radio_userland&rev=1138909000 The link: http://radio.userland.com/ ...and: http://www.activerenderer.com/ ... text/html 2005-08-30T03:57:00+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=really_simple_groupware&rev=1125388620 Dave Winer: the link: http://www.podcatch.com/2005/06/15#a465 ... text/html 2005-11-27T11:47:47+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=scott_isaacs_ultimate_outliner&rev=1133110067 http://spaces.msn.com/members/siteexperts/Blog/cns!1pNcL8JwTfkkjv4gg6LkVCpw!2776.entry ... text/html 2005-08-30T03:57:00+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=shadowplan&rev=1125388620 ShadowPlan is a mobile outliner solution. It consists of two components, one that runs on the Palm and one on the desktop. There is syncing between the two, so you can edit your outlines anywhere with your PDA. There is a free beta version of Shado... text/html 2005-09-21T16:18:27+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=skwyrul&rev=1127333907 Skywrul hasn’t been updated since 2001, but was good for its time. Now more or less superseded by Keynote but may have some unique features useful to some. ... text/html 2006-02-01T16:40:01+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=start&rev=1138830001 This wiki is open to all topics related to outlining. Outliners Outliner features Start here to find out what an outliner is and how to use one. Overview of Modern Outliners This is a list of all known outliners by platform, including notes o... text/html 2005-09-21T15:14:07+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=storelaw_outliner&rev=1127330047 Review ... text/html 2005-08-30T03:57:03+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=styles&rev=1125388623 Nearly all outlining is primarily text-based. Some outliners provide ways of setting and controlling styles in both the header and paragraph text. The style can be reassigned automatically as the entry changes position in the hierarchy. Word’s ou... text/html 2005-08-30T03:57:04+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=temporal_awareness&rev=1125388624 Some outliners are used for to-do lists, calendar editing, or project management. They need to incorporate the notion of events and dates. Sometimes, this includes event dependencies: event A or B must occur before event C does, for instance. Occasi... text/html 2005-08-30T03:57:04+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=thinktank&rev=1125388624 The link: http://www.outliners.com/ ... text/html 2005-08-30T03:57:05+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=thoughtmanager&rev=1125388625 ThoughtManager, by Hands High Software, is a Palm outliner. There is a desktop component as well that syncs with the Palm. It’s pretty basic but allows drawings, notes, and figures for each outline element. No linking between outlines. Outline... text/html 2005-08-30T03:57:06+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=tinderbox&rev=1125388626 the link: http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/ ... text/html 2005-09-21T15:31:43+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=tkoutline&rev=1127331103 http://tkoutline.sourceforge.net ... text/html 2005-08-30T03:57:06+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=transclude&rev=1125388626 Transclude in the outlining sense usually means to pull external content into an outline node, or as children to a node. Example types of content include calendar appointments and RSS news feeds. ... text/html 2005-08-30T03:57:07+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=treepad&rev=1125388627 TreePad is one of the oldest and most popular Windows outliners. It comes in a number of editions: TreePad Plus TreePad Safe TreePad Viewer TreePad Business Edition TreePad Lite TreePad Lite for Linux TreePad X Enterprise For all that prod... text/html 2005-09-21T15:52:52+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=tvo&rev=1127332372 TVO is a plugin for Vim to provide outliner-like functionality, similar to VimOutliner. It has received positive comparisons with the former. ... text/html 2005-09-21T15:53:33+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=vimoutliner&rev=1127332413 VimOutliner is a plugin for the Vim text editor. It provides outliner-like functionality by using text folding rules on indented lines of a text file. While not a real outliner, it is useful if you spend a lot of time in Vim anyway. Another outliner... text/html 2005-09-21T15:46:33+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=wikidpad&rev=1127331993 WikidPad is, strictly speaking, not really an outliner. It is a desktop application that works like a Wiki, allowing internal linking of a rich text document. It is similar to a outliner in that it allows you to quickly jot down information and asso... text/html 2005-08-30T03:57:10+01:00 http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki/doku.php?id=zoot&rev=1125388630 Zoot is an information manager that stores it’s information hierarchically, but not in the traditional outliner layout. It instead takes inspiration from the classic e-mail/news client layout of folders in a left pane, a folder listing in a to...