Gingko

Posted by jaslar
Jul 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM

Fellow CRIMPers:

Gingko update from many years later. It WAS and is an amazing concept. Horizontal outliners are handy for some kinds of things, and Gingko when I first saw it was simple, clear, and quick. Brilliant in design, well-integrated with the emerging markdown format.

I just took a look at the latest iteration I could find.

A work of art is not necessarily a business success. Enter ” gingko ” in the search bar for the whole history. I posted here because this topic had the most visits. It’s a pretty fascinating discussion on the aims of outlinersoftware and the sustainability of its core components.

I give Gingko as an idea and execution a big thumbs up.

I still want a document view, a toggle or plug-in, that looks and works like Gingko. It had precise and powerful editing power too. The developer seems to have moved to Obsidian. For me, Dynalist still hits the frictionless outliner ideal. That’s one use case. I’m happy enough.

But I do wonder: Does the concept live on? Where?