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Posted by jaslar
Apr 6, 2013 at 03:51 PM
So I went and took a look at this. Along the way, I saw a link to Workflowy, which I somehow missed when it came out.
At this point, I use iOS, Windows, Linux and Android. And suddenly finding a couple of elegantly designed (simple and deep user interfaces) single pane outliners that run in the browser seems ... encouraging. Both tools, for the writing I would hope to do with them, lack some significant features (word count and spell-check, to name the most basic). But so many of the applications I read about on this forum seem to get sucked into the wormhole of additional features. Little Outliner and Workflowy are easily learned and make it that much easier to slip the power of outlining back into my life.
At any rate, thanks for the link.
Posted by Dr Andus
Apr 12, 2013 at 10:41 AM
Lucas wrote:
Just released today:
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>Little Outliner
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>http://littleoutliner.com/
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>(This comes out of Dave Winer’s Small Picture project)
I haven’t quite figured out what I could use Little Outliner for (in addition to the outliners I already have), but apparently it’s now compatible (meaning “copy and paste”) with Workflowy (h/t Taking Note blog):
http://threads2.scripting.com/2013/april/workflowyAndLittleOutliner
Posted by Dr Andus
Apr 16, 2013 at 11:04 PM
Fargo (just launched today) makes slightly more sense to me, as the outline can now be saved to Dropbox. But I’m still struggling to see what I would use this for (given all the other faster and more sophisticated tools around). Maybe this is targeted at other developers/services, rather than end-users?
http://smallpicture.com/fargoDocs.html
Beware: once you click on the Fargo link proper, it will force you to link the app to your Dropbox account first.
Posted by jaslar
May 5, 2013 at 05:05 AM
I just spent a little time with Fargo today. It’s seems an incremental step up from Little Outliner: a small one pane outliner with a small set of features. It does the absolute essentials of outlining, and i suppose the idea is that having it up and running in a browser gives one a dashboard to plan a day, dash off a blog post, or keep a running journal. It’s still missing a lot of the things most of the folks here would consider important. But it’s been kind of fun to see Dave Winer back in the outliner game.
Posted by Alvah Whealton
Dec 30, 2013 at 10:36 PM
In the 1980’s I was working as a programmer on the IBM mainframes. I had an 8 bit Zenith computer at home. My best guess is that I downloaded PC-Outline from Compuserve. I was incredibly impressed with PCO. The outline functionality fit my obsessive-compulsive nature very well. The PCO user interface was the most elegant I had seen up to that time. The program was extremely efficient, and very, very fast. Later, I would see programming software which provided templates for creating menus like those in PCO. I have always been curious about the PCO program. Does anyone know if it was written in assembly language or whether it was programmed with a higher level language? Its speed always suggested assembly level programming to me. But my background was with clunky compilers on a big mainframe, so I really don’t know. PCO still has an elegance that I don’t find in other software.
Al Whealton
Cassius wrote:
John Friend wrote GrandView. I telephoned him once and we spoke about
>it. Unfortunately, he had moved on to other things, and he had just
>moved and had no idea in which packing box his GV materials were.
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>-cassius