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Posted by jimspoon
May 28, 2013 at 05:30 PM
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-tools-for-outlining-ideas-for-writers-and-artists
for what it’s worth - sometimes the idea of outlining gets attention from the tech websites
Posted by Dr Andus
May 28, 2013 at 09:14 PM
jimspoon wrote:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-tools-for-outlining-ideas-for-writers-and-artists
>for what it’s worth - sometimes the idea of outlining gets attention
>from the tech websites
Just like Steve, I’m also surprised when I see MS OneNote and Word discussed as serious choices for outliners, especially as there are even free outliners that are more capable than those two (I’m not talking about note-taking, for which maybe OneNote could be a contender).
Here is link to Steve’s OneNote Smack Down, just in case:
http://welcometosherwood.wordpress.com/tag/onenote-smack-down/
Posted by Dr Andus
May 28, 2013 at 09:24 PM
jimspoon wrote:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-tools-for-outlining-ideas-for-writers-and-artists
>for what it’s worth - sometimes the idea of outlining gets attention
>from the tech websites
P.S. Thanks for the link though. Articles like these are interesting reminders of how disorganised this market for outliners is. People tend to have very fragmented views of what’s available out there. And you can’t blame them, as other than a couple of lists (Wikipedia and Pierre’s list: http://www.editgrid.com/user/pplandry/List_of_Outliners) there is not much else to go on…
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
May 28, 2013 at 10:39 PM
I appreciate the link. It’s always interesting to read other people’s thoughts about what constitutes a good outliner. I have to disagree with the author of that post, however. With the exception of Work Flowy, I don’t believe any of those would make my list of top outlining apps for Windows. And especially not for writers and artists. Oak Outliner might get there; although the developer, Jesse Grosjean, while very creative, seems to have a short attention span, starting one project, getting it just to the point of being useful, then moving on to another one. I had never heard of The Outliner for Giants before, so was eager to give it a shot. I was disappointed. It is clunky and not very inspiring. I can see it being useful for some purposes, especially where collaboration might be involved, but it is not an outliner for writers, at least not when there are other, better options.
I have to make this disclaimer: I have never used Word beyond the 2007 edition, so it may be a lot better at outlining than I recall… in fact, I believe I’ve read that it is. And I have not used the latest version of OneNote, so the outlining capability might have improved. And I do love OneNote for collecting related data on specific topics.
Everyone’s ideas are different, so it is good to get points of view that differ from mine, so thanks for the link.
Steve Z.
Posted by Dr Andus
May 29, 2013 at 09:29 AM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>I have to make this disclaimer: I have never used Word beyond the 2007
>edition, so it may be a lot better at outlining than I recall… in
>fact, I believe I’ve read that it is.
You’re right, I also heard positive noises about Word 2013, which I haven’t tried yet (I’m somewhat discouraged by their new licensing regime and Word 2010 still serves me fine for everything else).