Leo - An outliner worth you time to look at

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Posted by dbolene
2002-08-28 14:11:29

I’ve lurked here for a few years. Began with MaxThink then jumped to Ecco. Leo is something worth a look. It’s built for programmers but has so many powerful uses for pure knowledge management outlining it’s incredible. Take 15 minutes to go thru the tutorials:

http://www.evisa.com/e/sbooks/leo/sbframetoc_ie.htm

The Leo homepage:

http://personalpages.tds.net/~edream/front.html

The first thing that hooked me was clones (similar in effect to topics in multiple notepads in ecco). The nice thing about clones is the creator of Leo didn’t screw up by introducing some artifical parent topic mechanism like Folders (a folder is not just a parent topic)... instead all topic types are just topics - fixes a real design flaw in ecco.

But, it’s the import/export magic of Leo that will make it so powerful for interacting with others that don’t ‘get’ outlining.

Very interested in other’s opinions:

david…

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