What was the name of that outliner

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Outliners.com Message ID: 1357

Posted by ashilep
2002-04-26 14:40:16

Years ago I used an outliner from a small company in San Francisco—may have been a one person company. It was a DOS based program, and it worked very nicely, with commands like expand, collapse, copy or move elsewhere in hierarchy, print to level X, etc.

I can not remember the name of the program, or if any vestige of it is still around.

I remember that the person who wrote it put out a newsletter and, in one issue, had a picture of himself in costume for a part he sang in an amateur opera or theatrial company in the Bay Area. I remember too he wrote another piece of software that I got in maybe beta form that allowed the user to create idea networks (i.e., non-hierarchial connections). It came with an audio tape. It was sort of like what MyBrain now distributes.

I wonder what happened to this company and its software. I wonder if anyone knows of a good outlining program (Word is pretty clumsy to use). And I wonder if anybody every wrote a good piece of mind-mapping or idea networking software. (I’m evaluating TheBrain now—thebrain.com .)

Thanks, Alan Shilepsky in Minneapolis

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