looking for inverted outlining tool for goal-orientated planning

Posted by Paul Korm
Apr 23, 2016 at 06:38 PM

Goalscape is interesting. It’s not a right/left orientation, but concentric circles. I think the standard use case is to work outward from a main goal, but it can be used to work inward too. Just leave the central goals blank until the “subgoals” get fleshed out. It’s web based. Easy to navigate. Drag segments from one subgoal to another. Exportable to PDF, .docx, .xlsx, .csv and other formats.

But I think the best fit for your described requirements is TheBrain. Any node (“thought”) can gain multiple children, sibling, parents so you can expand inward or outward at will.