#outliners

Obsession takes many forms. Some of us sift through decades of ancient software for a blog, while others spend decades reinventing the same software repeatedly. Outliner software seems to attract the latter, but can this genre win over the former?

In 1984, the personal-computer industry was still small enough to be captured, with reasonable fidelity, in a one-volume publication, the Whole Earth Software Catalog. It told the curious what was up: “On an unlovely flat artifact called a disk may be hidden the concentrated intelligence of thousands of hours of design.” And filed under “Organizing” was one review of particular note, describing a program called ThinkTank, created by a man named Dave Winer.

In 1984, the personal-computer industry was still small enough to be captured, with reasonable fidelity, in a one-volume publication, the Whole Earth Software Catalog. It told the curious what was up: “On an unlovely flat artifact called a disk may be hidden the concentrated intelligence of thousands of hours of design.” And filed under “Organizing” was one review of particular note, describing a program called ThinkTank, created by a man named Dave Winer.

It's the HTML 5 outline algorithm in JavaScript. "javascript:(function(s){ s.src = 'http://amachang.sakura.ne.jp/misc/outline/check.js'; document.body.appendChild(s) })(document.createElement('script')) "

This is my new favorite addon. "Show tabs like a tree."

"Over the last couple of weeks i've been playing with the idea of a browser-based Outliner not unlike DECAFBAD's XoXoOutliner."

"GyroQ ... captures ideas in a few seconds. ... press a hot key, type a few words and hit Enter. ... ideas are added to a queue ... Once or twice a day, ... turn your queued-up ideas into topics that you can reorganise and plan."

"Web-based iJot combines a word processor and a wiki to turn your notes into outlines, which you can then save and/or share."

"I suggest using the created attribute, which provides a unique ID down to the second. Of course this would fail if you create more than one node in a second, but I find that's a limit I can live with."

"We are lucky to have Mark Wubben, in from the Netherlands, interning here at Jot for the summer. His first project is going to be finishing up an internal project with the super secret code name “Jotliner.”"

"Archy is a prototype computing environment based on years of research about this, largly on Jef Raskin's book "The Humane Interface"."

"This month we look at different user interface strategies of outliners."

"Following on from the earlier post re. outliners, if we’re talking about Gopher done with XML over HTTP, it might as well exploit some of the other facilities that have become readily available since 1992."

"I bought the Dummies book on Mindmanager."