Hello, also

Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 7, 2015 at 12:45 PM

John Ottensmann wrote:
>Here is a list of programs (the ones I remember) that I have
>actually used, not just tried:
>Bonsai
>SplashNotes

Hey, good to see another (former) Bonsai user out there! My history with digital outliners (as before those I used pen and paper) goes back to the decision to choose Natara Bonsai over SplashNotes, when I finally got fed up with using MS Word’s outliner feature and thought to myself, ‘someone must have invented a specialist outliner software by now’... (I was oblivious of the classics). This coincided with a new need to have to write longer papers with more complex arguments.

Aesthetically I preferred SplashNotes, but Bonsai seemed more sophisticated, so went with the latter and didn’t regret it. But I have to admit that I don’t use it regularly these days, as it’s hard to resist the cross-platform availability of WorkFlowy. And when I’m not it a browser, then I’d have ConnectedText open, which also has its own integrated outliner.

One benefit of having acquired a collection of outliner software though is that one can always choose the right tool for the right tasks, and once in a while a task comes along, for which Bonsai is still far superior than my other tools, such as sorting out and organising massive lists or huge outlines.