Jaslar, I also appreciate Dynalist a lot. It is a great outliner.

Thanks for mentioning your book, which looks interesting and timely. I will get a copy.

- Daly

jaslar wrote:

For me it was KAMAS, my first true outline processor. The simple ability
to collapse and expand headings, to hoist, was transformational,
teaching me to think of writing as a scaffold, allowing me to climb up a
little faster and further. The book that came with KAMAS was also
eye-opening. It taught me to look at the larger structure of longform
writing, to seek to articulate balance and consistency of ideas.

For a while I really lived in that program, applying it to everything.
These days, I mostly use Dynalist, but perhaps no longer have the rush
of discovery from using something new. But it made writing my new book
(On Censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel Culture in the US) a
real pleasure, letting me seamlessly flip from open to close focus on my
various sections. Outliners, rather than note-takers, had a truly
defining influence on all of my thinking.