Need a new Outliner

Posted by johnmcde
Jun 7, 2014 at 04:30 PM

You might want to include org-mode in that list. I use it almost exclusively. The software is so good that it’s included in the main Emacs distro. I’ve used a number of outline programs over the years and nothing comes close to org-mode. It’s way beyond a single pane outliner. I do all of my writing with org-mode. Push a few keys and I can export to nicely formatted latex/pdf, a different sequence gives me plain ascii, and so on. And the program is available with no charge on Unix (Linux), Windows and the Mac. Emacs isn’t going to go away next week either. The current version is 24. This program has been around in one form or another since the 1980 and it just keeps getting better and better.

The learning curve is longer but once you ‘get it’ you’ll never go back to an ordinary outliner.