| I've recently tried a few different outliners and hierarchical thought organizing programs. It's an ongoing search to find the right balance of features and simplicity. Nulis [0] This is more of a hierarchical thought organizer than an outliner in the traditional sense. It is targeted towards developing and writing literature, and shows everything on screen at once in a series of columns. I found it very easy to write things and break things down, but more as prose than as a series of items to be completed - good for brainstorming. It provides a checkable box via Markdown, but seems its not really intended as a todo list. Quire [1] I have had great luck with this app for the past few weeks in getting some big projects done. It's easy to enter things, move them around in the hierarchy with the keyboard, then treat them as tasks in a ticketing system with assignees, progress status, and notes and comments that support Markdown. Both of these have JSON based import/export formats so it would be possible to sketch a design in Nulis, then move some parts to Quire for more detailed tracking of steps, via some kind of conversion script. These are both web apps so available on my home and work PCs and phone etc. old favorite Abstract Spoon ToDoList [2] I used to use this a lot. It's a very capable open source outliner for Windows (and Linux apparently) with lots of different features and configurable modes. It runs as an app on the local machine but the data can be made available online via file synching services. It will only show the note for the current item. It has a very busy interface but can be stripped down to something fairly clean. I am still on the lookout for a hierarchical design app that includes sub-trees of implementation steps per design item and related notes for all items. Sometimes I like seeing the text of all notes, and other times I want some or all hidden. The common paradigm in many outliner/todo apps is to show the text of the current note only, and I find this to be like looking at my design through a keyhole. I have started writing my own version of this sort of app a few times. It's hard. Quire follows the show-note-for-current-item-only idea, but is still my current favorite due to its combination of decent keyboard short cuts, clean look, ability to share my status with my manager, and very active developers. [#0] https://nulis.io
[#1] https://quire.io
[#2] https://abstractspoon.weebly.com/ |