best outliner you use? (2018)

Posted by MadaboutDana
May 7, 2018 at 06:59 AM

Those who are as fed up as I am about paying MS a regular subscription for Office365 might want to take a look at SoftMaker Office, a German software suite that’s now available for Windows, Linux and Mac and uses MS file formats as its own native file formats. I can thoroughly recommend the latest version.

I have grave doubts about the subscription model, I must say. The big companies in particular (Adobe, Microsoft) seem to feel that once you’re a subscriber, they can modify their software in any way they want to (usually with a strategic objective in mind, like getting you to store all your data in their respective Clouds), without consulting you or balancing these changes against user input (OneNote is a good example).

As for subscriptions to outliner software - well, colour me disillusioned, but I’m not convinced by that model, either. Let’s face it, it’s inherently anti-CRIMP; now you have to subscribe to apps if you want to continue playing with them, rather than having them tucked away on a hard drive for the occasional play, nostalgic revisit or blinding revelation (when you suddenly realise exactly how that strange little app you’ve always been drawn to can actually be put to constructive use).

Sorry, rambling this morning; this isn’t very relevant to the topic!