Single-pan Outliner for Writers

Posted by DaXiong
Dec 9, 2007 at 01:34 AM

A lot of posts recently have lamented the lack of single-pane outliners, especially outliners serving writers. What I haven’t seen are solutions people here are using.

What single-pane outliners are people using for writing?

I write as part of my job - figure a 30 minute speech every week. Currently, I use Inspiration 8 (windows), and find it useful, but not perfect. I don’t use the mind-mapping feature (not my thing), but as an outliner it is great. What is lacking is control over formatting (and the company making it doesn’t really seem to care about user feedback!)

Why don’t software companies let users control the style in outlines?

I’ve used ECCO Pro in the past (but not for 10 years now), it deserves its praise, but it too is crippled in output control. I’ve seen the posts about SQLNotes, but haven’t used it. Honestly, although it claims to be similar to ECCO Pro, I see it as a PIM, information collector, not writing outliner (and it appears advertised this way too.)

Am I missing something? Are there programs out there in the Mac/Linux world that are designed for outlining for writers?

Thanks

DaXiong