Outliner for nonfiction book

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 27, 2018 at 08:34 AM

Hi Stephen,

I have never actually needed more than nine levels _for writing_, but MS Word’s arbitrary limitation has nevertheless been a reason for my looking elsewhere for ‘real’ outliners.

My own tool of choice for long and complex documents is Silva Elm Sense, about which I’ve written here in the past, e.g. https://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/3909/0/sense-editor-recent-updates

It’s Windows only, and I hesitate to propose it if you needed it soon, as there is currently an issue with its purchasing; see it here in the words of its developer, Dave Ewins https://www.outlinersoftware.com/messages/viewm/31978

I’m using a temporary build provided by Dave, which implements the new licensing scheme he mentions, but I assume that this only works for existing license holders.

That said, I believe that Sense is in a league of its own as a tool for developing and working on structured texts.

Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
Strange to be looking for something so basic, but it’s still hard to
>find an excellent one-pane outliner with deep levels.
> >It seems Inspiration 9 is the only real alternative for book-length
>writing. Am I wrong?