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Posted by jimspoon
Mar 25, 2013 at 07:07 AM
http://smallpicture.com/outlinerHowto.html
Dave Winer’s project - javascript outliner.
Posted by Lucas
Mar 25, 2013 at 04:57 PM
Just released today:
Little Outliner
(This comes out of Dave Winer’s Small Picture project)
Posted by Listerene
Mar 25, 2013 at 05:32 PM
With all due respect to the father of computerized outliners, his work since GrandView/ThinkTank/More 3 hasn’t been as great. Dude, just give us an updated GrandView for Windows—similar (perhaps) to UV Outliner except—with all that programmer genius he brings to the table. Like adding the flexibility of switching between single/dual panes, cork boards, mind maps, & with tagging and column support. Throw in an easy web page import and perhaps PIM like features of calendar/email/reminders; make the whole thing globally search and replaceable with export abilities. Maybe add some relational capabilities useful to novelists/screenwriters and others; add screenwriter templates/formatting in addition to the usual .rtf text/graphic/tables features. Instant greatest program ever.
Kind of a full circle on his career AND kind of a watermark for the computer age. If he needs the money, he could even charge for it and have folks lined up around the world to buy/invest. There aren’t many programs that I pay for without long consideration but a modern GrandView with the promise of most of the features I mentioned? I sure would.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Mar 30, 2013 at 08:36 PM
As far as I understand, Dave Winer has nothing to do with GrandView http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Winer though he is the creator of ThinkTank and More.
I actually believe that Winer is very consistent in his endeavours, as documented by the Wikipedia entry above: from the outset he was an outliner software evangelist, and he soon combined this with the web, giving us Frontier, Radio Userland and RSS, in short the predecessors to modern Content Management Systems. After creating OPML he launched the OPML editor which I personally find far from intuitive but which remains useful software. His launching a similar tool in HTML5 seems quite a natural step in the present situation; HTML5 offers a powerful rich web publishing platform beyond proprietary systems like Flash or semi open ones like Java, and I’m sure Winer likes this.
I wish his new outliner, ideally improved further by others too, gradually becomes an optional online editor in webwares ranging from Gmail to social publishing platforms; we might then see better structured texts circulating…
Posted by Cassius
Mar 31, 2013 at 04:47 AM
John Friend wrote GrandView. I telephoned him once and we spoke about it. Unfortunately, he had moved on to other things, and he had just moved and had no idea in which packing box his GV materials were.
-cassius