Mac or Windows or Chrome or Linux for outlining?

Posted by jaslar
May 18, 2018 at 06:20 PM

Truly, Dr. Amdus, I’m fine having people reference their use cases. I often learn a lot that way.

Dynalist serves as my default work dashboard, project notes, and a work preparer. I mange and log the day’s work, which then becomes a searchable database for various projects, press calls, talking points, and logistics. I haven’t really delved into true project management, but sometimes I think I ought to, at least if it feels easily extensible from an outliner.

Most of my documents are short: blogs, policy statements, essays, journal entries.

For a professional book I’m working on, in markdown, my favorite writing tools have been org-mode and Editorial. Google Docs might be ok if I could rearrange things in the outline pane.

So I suppose I’m just looking for general musings from this thoughtful group of people about where their tool chests have wound up living over the years.

Dr Andus wrote:
jaslar wrote:
>> it’s more about
>>writing and daily management than comprehensive task and project
>>management
> >You may need to provide a bit more detail on what kind of writing and
>outlining you do, otherwise you run the risk that people will just chime
>in with whatever their particular preferences are.
> >Once you have defined your specific needs more narrowly, then it might
>even be possible to identify the specific piece of software and form
>factor (which might override the OS question).
> >E.g. is it about outlining and writing short pieces (e.g. for online
>consumption, blogging, journal entries) or large documents (theses,
>novels etc.)?
> >Then other considerations kick in, such as the need for a specialist
>notes database software or academic referencing software that may only
>be available on one OS or the other.