Outwiker. Cross-platform and free outliner

Posted by DaXiong
Mar 8, 2012 at 11:35 AM

Jim, I had a similar problem ... here’s what worked for me:

1. The top node can’t be edited. It is a container for the other nodes in the outline. Once I made a child, I could edit.
2. After creating a simple outline, I got stuck again. I could see my work, but couldn’t edit. I realized the pane where my work was had three tabs: wiki, preview, html. you can’t edit in “preview” ... only wiki and html.

For all:
its an interesting program, with potential. My only concern right now is how well it scales up ...
I have a mid-sized text file I pulled into the program intending to break up into chunks and play with - it worked, but took some time. It might be I have an older computer (I do), but what was easy in CT and other programs was slow here.

I’ll write again in a few days, when I’ve played more. My next test will be seeing how well it handles an annotated bibliography.