Zavala - An open source outliner for Macs, iPads, and iPhones

Posted by Darren McDonald
Jan 14, 2021 at 04:28 AM

I would like to see in an outliner what Brett Terpstra states in his blog when he wrote about the Tree app;

“An outliner is an outliner, but Tree adds one thing that makes it infinitely more useful to me and my non-linear thought process: a horizontal view of the outline. It’s basically a right-aligned mind map. Seeing each level of the hierarchy in line with other siblings across different branches suddenly brings the whole brainstorming thing together for me.”

https://brettterpstra.com/2012/04/02/app-review-tree-an-outliner-i-can-love/

There was a further discussion about this in these forums:

https://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/9131

Maurice Parker wrote:
I’ve just started a project to make a simple, clean outliner for Apple
>platforms. It is called Zavala and is in the very early stages of
>development.
> >I’m looking for users to provide feedback on what they would like to see
>in an outliner. If you’ve ever wished that you had a direct line to the
>developer of an outliner before it got released, this is your chance.
>I’m very interested in how people are using outliners and what features
>they need in the real world on a daily basis.
> >If you have macOS Big Sur, there is a developer release available to
>kick around. You wouldn’t want to trust any important data to it,
>because it is under active development and might scramble your stuff
>completely. You can take a look and provide feedback as to what works
>and doesn’t work for you. Even if you can’t run the developer release,
>there is a forum for the project there. I’d still like to hear what you
>think makes a good outliner.
> >The project is open source and Zavala will always be free. I hope some
>of you join me in making an outliner that is a joy to use.
> >https://github.com/vincode-io/Zavala