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Writing Outliner turns into WordOutliner (beta)
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Posted by Listerene
Dec 19, 2017 at 05:36 AM
Crashed for me on startup.
From its start, way back when Office 2007 was a thing, this has had some serious issues and I recall losing a bunch of work when it misbehaved. Thought I’d try it again, 10 years later, but nope. No joy for me.
Sure it’s a beta but I don’t think I’d trust this guy to program anything and I sure wouldn’t trust this program with anything important.
Posted by Graham Rhind
Dec 19, 2017 at 07:40 AM
WritingOutliner isn’t in beta. WordOutliner is, but if you were trying WritingOutliner then you may have been trying it in a version of Word it doesn’t support.
My experience is very different from yours. I’ve been using it almost daily from its inception (10? 12? years ago) and I haven’t lost a word of my work. On the rare occasion that it has crashed on me, and even when I’ve accidentally closed a project without saving it, nothing has been lost.
Listerene wrote:
Crashed for me on startup.
>
>From its start, way back when Office 2007 was a thing, this has had some
>serious issues and I recall losing a bunch of work when it misbehaved.
>Thought I’d try it again, 10 years later, but nope. No joy for me.
>
>Sure it’s a beta but I don’t think I’d trust this guy to program
>anything and I sure wouldn’t trust this program with anything important.
Posted by Anthony
May 23, 2019 at 03:54 PM
Update. ...and turns into DocxManager. It is named as the second writingoutliner re-birth. Actually it seems the third, given the title of this old post.
News here, but no download available yet, just a new website:
http://writingoutliner.com/writing-software/blog/docxmanager-the-second-rebirth-of-writing-outliner/
Posted by tightbeam
May 23, 2019 at 06:03 PM
Seems to be primarily a tool to generate websites (in Bootstrap) from Word documents, and not really an outliner anymore. It’ll be interesting to see how well it does what it’s advertised to do.
Posted by Franz Grieser
May 23, 2019 at 08:45 PM
tightbeam wrote:
>Seems to be primarily a tool to generate websites (in Bootstrap) from
>Word documents, and not really an outliner anymore. It’ll be interesting
>to see how well it does what it’s advertised to do.
The screenshots remind me of Scrivener.
The website generator feature looks like a strange add-on to me. Who would use Word for building web pages?