best outliner you use? (2018)

Posted by Chris Thompson
May 3, 2018 at 12:56 PM

My guess is that Tinderbox for Windows is currently on ice. The developer restructured a lot of the code a couple of years ago to make Windows development easier, but he doesn’t appear to be focusing on that any more. There are now some plugins for Tiddlywiki that can handle some of what Tinderbox does, although the visual-oriented ones tend to slow down with any realistic number of notes. Queries and actions (like Tinderbox agents/edicts) are generally ok with larger numbers of notes in Tiddlywiki if you can figure out what to do, but I don’t have any Tiddlywiki project with more than about 500 notes.

—Chris

Paul J. Miller wrote:

>
>Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>On the other hand, I still think the best outliner remains Tinderbox. I
>>wrote about the reasons here:
>>
>>https://welcometosherwood.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/outlining-with-tinderbox-6-6-2-to-be-precise/
>>
>>And the app has only gotten more powerful in version 7. I don’t use it
>>every day because it is only available for MacOS.
>>
>>Steve Z.
> >I agree that from what I have seen and read in the documentation
>Tinderbox seems to be the best outliner around but I cannot use it
>because there is no Windows version. They keep saying they are working
>on a windows version but it never seems to get any closer to becoming a
>reality.
> >I do have a chronic case of CRIMP and so I have bought most of the
>available note taking programs. The two I actually use for day to day
>organisation are ConnectedText and MyInfo. It would be nice to have a
>go with Tinderbox for Windows.