Outliner's Utopia

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Posted by PlanetBoyer
May 13, 2009 at 05:52 PM

How close can we get to an outliner’s utopia with what currently exists?

For me, utopia must include access even before functionality. I want to get to my outlines from PC, Mac, iPhone, and browser.
Google Tasks (the Gmail Labs add-in) would rank 10 out of 10 in this. Works great from any web browser. I have it bookmarked in my iPhone and it is fantastic.

Now I want to start adding functionality. Google Tasks is so tiny, even in a full browser. And I’d like to be able to expand/collapse levels. And I want keyboard shortcuts for moving, expanding, etc.

Any other outliners that have perfect 10 (or even 9) access but with more features than Google Tasks?

Paul

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
May 14, 2009 at 07:47 PM

Well for one thing, I personally wouldn’t give 10 out of 10 on access to Google services, as I would want access even when I am offline. In this sense, the one application I have tried that I satisfies my access needs 100% is Evernote—though it falls behind in its actual features (it isn’t really an outliner though its hierarchical tags do go a long way in that respect).

For the moment I haven’t seen any web-only service that satisfies me feature-wise.

Alexander

Posted by Ken
May 15, 2009 at 03:35 PM

Well, I do not know if a perfect 10 exists, since everybody has a different idea of what is perfect, but I will say that Toodledo has reasonably nice access. The client for the iPhone is quite good, and it offers many useful features. Its certainly worth consideration IMHO.

—Ken

Posted by Tom S.
May 15, 2009 at 06:30 PM

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Well for one thing, I personally wouldn’t give 10 out of 10 on access to Google
>services, as I would want access even when I am offline.

I don’t give the Google services a 10 but I do use them daily. You can now use Gmail, Reader, Calendar and I think Docs all offline using Google Gears.

Tom S.

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