Scrivener-like outliner for Windows?

Posted by Edwin Yip
Sep 24, 2009 at 03:00 PM

Hi Hugh,

Actually, Writing Outliner can be (at least partially) a remedy for the instability of Word, since Writing Outliner will save backups for each document, you can easily go back to any previous revision.

Edwin Yip
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http://WritingOutliner.com

Hugh wrote:
>It isn’t just clumsiness that has deterred long-form writers from using
>Word.
> >There used to be several blogs and sites offering advice on what functions to
>strip out of Word or leave unused before committing important long-form material to
>it. Some of these functions as I recall concerned its outlining and document map
>features, which were of course designed to make writing longer documents easier.
>There existed a serious fear of instability once it contained tens of thousands of
>words. I experienced this instability myself - Word 2000 was definitely flawed, but I
>can’t remember whether for me or more generally the problems also involved Word
>versions as recent as 2003, and I don’t know whether the causes have since been
>addressed in 2007.
> >If not, it’s hard to see how an add-in can provide a remedy.
> >H
> >