"Metaoutlining"

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Outliners.com Message ID: 2757

Posted by srdiamond15
2005-02-16 02:40:08

At least I’m not quite the only person who wants outlining in an outliner’s text section. I just learned from Ted Garanson’s column that this is called metaoutlining. I always thought a metaoutline was an outline where the topics were whole outlines, and I could never see why this would be very useful.

Ted Says: “Regular readers will know that I like metaoutlining, where notes are ordered in an outline structure and the notes themselves can have some outline structure. Its a Zen thing: atunement with graphical structure of text is as valuable in the small as in the large. Now VoodooPad joins a few others in supporting bulleted lists in notes. Hey, itís a start.” (http://www.atpm.com/11.01/atpo.shtml)

If metaoutlining is the new bar, eventually separating out the top programs, the closest approximation is Microsoft OneNote. It, however, combines good metaoutlining with weak outlining proper. (Although I now vaguely seem to remember that Hog Bay Notebook may have it on the Mac.)

Stephen R. Diamond

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