Suggestions for development of cross-platform Linux Outliner Note-taking software

Posted by JG
Sep 7, 2009 at 10:29 PM

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>If you want to enter the very crowded market of information managers, AND make it
>economically feasible, you’re going to need to do more than emulate OneNote. You’ll
>need to do something different. I can think of two paths you can take:
> >1. You can build
>a Windows version of GrandView, a great old DOS outliner that has never been
>duplicated in Windows. There’s a little bit of information about GrandView
>here:
> >http://www.faughnan.com/more/
> >and here:
>http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1563/is_n6_v9/ai_10748021/
> >2.
>Create an index card model. That is, each record would be viewable in an index card,
>with a variety of meta data attached, as well. Subsets of these cards could be viewed in
>lists or on a virtual cork board, where they could be freely shuffled around.
> >Steve
>Z.

Allow me to support warmly Steve Z’s first option. I would kill!! (read that “pay good money”) for a program that would mirror Grandview or PCoutline. These programs would be attractive to academics if they included a cut-and-paste function, the ability to link to websites, import functions from other programs, etc. I still use the outliner for my lectures, brain storming, and storing information.

Jim G.