Why do you CRIMP?

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 22, 2011 at 10:05 PM

I think the OutlinerSoftware title is misguiding, as we discuss many non-outline related information management software here. At the same time there are several reasons for the name:

- Historical: this forum is the continuation of the outliners.com forum started in the previous century (!) by Dave Winer

- Practical: outliners are everywhere, even if used as complementary views; it amazes me that even a 3-D tool like Personal Brain now has an outline view

- Emotional: I believe that, at some point in time, most of us were helped to make sense of some complex situation through breaking down the relevant information into an outline; I know I did, and I still haven’t found something equally satisfying

...and more

From my part, I cannot think of a single personal information management program that I ever heard of, which has not been discussed in this forum to a significant degree.

Foolness wrote:
>This forum being one example. I only ever
>recall this forum if I’m remembering Surfulator or UltraRecall. Even though it’s in
>my bookmark, I never have any intention to go back here first because my first thought
>often comes up thinking: “I’m not looking for outliners.” Then I fail to find forums
>that links to unorthodox software. I go back here. And my failure of finding out
>programs I want to find satisfies that nagging curiosity in me and then I leave
>OutlinerSoftware again.