When we talk about outliners we often confuse two-pane outliners, which
should rightly be called note organisers in many cases, and one-pane
outliners which follow the original idea that text is organised in
differently indented levels.
The outline mode in MS Word shows pretty well how a onepane outliner
works.
It has many good features, like easily hiding different levels of text,
promoting and demoting text, etc..
The negative sides of Word is, not freeware, produces big documents
because it saves everything needed for switching between different
modes, and it lacks hyperlinking features (not sure about this, have
not researched enough)
TKoutliner has very good hyperlinking features, inside and outside
documents.
Has fantastic features which are not so obviously visible when you see
it.
negative sides, not so good user interface, developed by a single
programmer.
A wiki is another possibility, has excellent hyperlinking
possibilities, but not so good classical outliner features like
different levels of text. Can be run run locally in your own computer.
Advantage multiuser friendly, online.
Tornado Notes. Unfortunately not available in the modern world.
But we are still dreaming about it
Metapad, good text editor, hyperlinking to internet but not internal
and to other text files like TKoutliner. No outliner functions.
So what am I really looking for?
A deck of cards like Tornado Notes, with sorting, jumping, hyperlinking
within and without my local computer.
A notes program with hyperlinking and jumping anywhere, organising and
sorting.
TKoutline is probably the best top level organiser program, and
outliner text editor, and can easily be extended by other text editors,
wikis, the web, etc..
The alternative I use right now is the file system in my computer and a
good file manager, so I can find texts, search and sort, start
programs, etc..
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