Question for the lawyers

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 12, 2008 at 08:36 PM

It sure is a sad commentary on the state of the outliner field that there isn’t a single enthusiastic endorsement of any single-pane outliner.* A few years ago, I expected we’d have something decent to use in Windows. I say the best outliner for Windows remains ECCO Pro—a product that hasn’t been supported or developed beyond 1997. Brainstorm is a great product, and is certainly a capable outliner, but it doesn’t have many of the features a genuine “outliner” needs.

And it isn’t a whole lot better in OS X land. OmniOutliner is serviceable, but it doesn’t match ECCO or GrandView. Opal, from our friend David Duncan, is a nice jotter-style outliner, but isn’t a powerhouse (and isn’t intended to be). I haven’t tried TAO, but development appears to be glacial. And that’s it.

Well, that’s my rant for the day.

Steve Z.

*Pierre, I know you’re working on SQLNotes—BTW, have you considered creating a stripped down version of SQLNotes that is just the single-pane notepad?