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by tjr 1550 days ago
I enjoy Dave Winer's outlining tools. I'm not fond of the often-used Twitter authentication (just personal preference; no technical reason), but the overall concept and work flow of the tools themselves is really nice.
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Are there current tools? http://outliners.scripting.com is stuff from the 1980s, last updated in 1999

Today's premium Mac offering is OmniOutliner ($20 barebones or $100 full-featured) https://www.omnigroup.com/omnioutliner/

Emacs has a wonderful outline mode and even more featurful org-mode. Easy to navigate, restructure, filter, etc.
Here are a few outliners to consider:

* Workflowy * Roam Research * RemNote * Zavala

I receive his daily blog post via email, so I have read a lot of his comments about "outliners" and how wonderful they are. It always leaves me scratching my head; I mean, doesn't MS Word (and MS Excel, for that matter) have outlining capabilities built-in? How many different ways are there to construct an outline?
Link for others curious: https://www.google.com/search?q=dave+winer+outlining

If anyone has a better, more specific link, please reply, I'm curious.