best outliner you use? (2018)

Posted by Rochus
Nov 4, 2018 at 01:53 PM

doablesoftware wrote:
> on http://www.organizingcreativity.com/2018/02/what-makes-a-good-outliner/
> >someone says what are the main features that makes a good outliner
> >what’s the best outliner you use? please include your main use that sets
>the outliner apart from all the other software/outliners

Hi there, thanks for the link and the very interesting discussion I came accross today. My response might be a bit biased since I implemented my own outliner and use it as my main information management tool since. Before I used Ecco Pro (since its 16bit days), but needed something more powerful including cross-references and platform independence for the information management of large projects. You can find the tool on https://github.com/rochus-keller/CrossLine. It supports the “killer feature” from the referenced post at organizingcreativity.com and a couple of other features requested there. I actually followed the authors suggestion and imported “War and Peace” from the Gutenberg HTML edition into a repository; runs really smooth and keeps all title structure and formatting; you can download it from http://software.rochus-keller.info/WarAndPeace.cldb.zip or try to import yourself. I used the tool in really large government projects; one of my repositories includes every note and protocol and even some studies and specifications of an eight year project; everything is cross-linked and also accessible by full text search. I actually don’t need columns because the tool supports active links with transclusion; so you cann e.g. create an outline with all references and include the navigatable abbreviations in the main text; the same applies to action items in a protocol which you can collect in another outline or section an track their status by repositioning and adding subitems. I will also look through the suggestions in this discussion and add posts if need be.

Best R.K.