Are we, outliners fans, just a bunch of outlined mind maniacs?

Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Jun 8, 2013 at 06:28 PM

To avoid a false unanimity, I’ll admit I loved outlining in school. Locating propositions in a hierarchy produced a sublime thrill comparable to ... diagramming sentences. Of course, doing it on a computer is much better. When I got my first copy of MS Word (3 I believe), I was thrilled to have an outliner built in. Does anyone remember the Mac software called MindWrite, built around an outliner. Very exciting, but it was an unfinished product, which didn’t even have automatic page numbering, not to speak of footnotes.