Collaborative Outline about Outliners that work on both macOS and iOS

Posted by MadaboutDana
May 5, 2017 at 07:46 AM

I think the issue here is the term “outliner”. What exactly do you mean by “outliner”?

For example, I suspect I’m right in thinking that you don’t regard two-pane (notebook-style) outliners as valid entries in your list.

Apps such as e.g. Notebooks, Ulysses, TextNut, MWeb, Bear and many others support hierarchical folders and/or hierarchical tags, although they don’t support folding or hoisting as such (actually, you could argue that Ulysses kind of supports hoisting).

So do you regard them as outliners, or not?

And what about apps that enable precise isolation of data using tags etc. (e.g. Letterspace, Simplenote)? These could be described as “outliners”, even though they don’t use hierarchical techniques as such, because they do facilitate data chunking.

If you clarified the parameters for inclusion in your list, I think you’d make it easier for people to contribute ;-)

Actually, perhaps this is a challenge we should throw open to everybody on OutlinerSoftware: what exactly is an outliner? We could start a new thread…