Horizontal outlining

Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 13, 2013 at 05:47 PM

Inspired by Gingko - which I think is a brilliant start (the nice bunnies have told me that since there’s only one actual developer, it may take a while before a mobile app is available) - I’ve been looking for other horizontal outliners.

The more I think about it, the more sensible this seems as an answer to the issues so well described by Chris - data prioritization and internetworking.

Of course the only really great example of a horizontal/vertical outliner is Tree Outliner (http://www.topoftree.jp/images/0_overview.png); alas, only available for Mac. Last discussed in October last year (http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/4351/0/revisiting-the-pros-and-cons-of-horizontal-outliners). And there’s no sign of anything comparable emerging for Windows (apart from Gingko, of course).

One could argue that mindmapping apps are very similar in concept, but there’s something fuzzy and ill-disciplined about them that doesn’t appeal much to my (Germanic?) mindset.

Apple Numbers can be used as a kind of horizontal outliner, but it’s not really the same.

If anybody can think of something convincingly outliner-y that works vertically AND horizontally, why not step up and tell us about it?