What's the state of the art?

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Sep 9, 2011 at 11:26 AM

I’ve just been wondering what the current state of the art outlining application is. It seems there has been no real innovation in this area in a while. That isn’t to say that there are not a lot of terrific programs available, just that I haven’t seen anything new that impresses me. On the Mac, the “state of the art” might be considered OmniOutliner or Neo. Both of these programs are solid, full-featured applications, but neither has really advanced the notion of what an outliner can do. For Windows… well, I don’t know what would be considered the “state of the art.” InfoQube perhaps. Noteliner is a great program, but it gets there mostly be being stripped down (though, it is gaining features with each new release). I’m eager to investigate the upcoming version of ConnectedText, but CT is really a wiki desktop and not an outliner.

So, I am curious to read comments from this group about which applications they see as the current state of the art in outlining. Anyone?

Steve Z.