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Posted by johnmcde
Jun 7, 2014 at 04:30 PM
You might want to include org-mode in that list. I use it almost exclusively. The software is so good that it’s included in the main Emacs distro. I’ve used a number of outline programs over the years and nothing comes close to org-mode. It’s way beyond a single pane outliner. I do all of my writing with org-mode. Push a few keys and I can export to nicely formatted latex/pdf, a different sequence gives me plain ascii, and so on. And the program is available with no charge on Unix (Linux), Windows and the Mac. Emacs isn’t going to go away next week either. The current version is 24. This program has been around in one form or another since the 1980 and it just keeps getting better and better.
The learning curve is longer but once you ‘get it’ you’ll never go back to an ordinary outliner.
Posted by Garland Coulson
Jun 12, 2014 at 03:24 AM
Tried Mind Outliner but didn’t like that I couldn’t hit the tab key to demote an item.
Another thought occurred to me. I have never really liked the outliner in Word but I haven’t tried it in years. So I opened and tested it and it has improved a lot. And the benefit as a speaker is I can do the outline in Word, save it and then import it into PowerPoint to make slides from. And I can also turn the outline into an ebook.
I will try this for a bit and see how it works.
I would like to use a more dedicated outliner, but the benefit of being able to create PowerPoint presentations and ebooks from the outlines is a powerful benefit to my work day.
Garland
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jun 12, 2014 at 05:28 AM
Garland Coulson wrote:
>I would like to use a more dedicated outliner, but the benefit of being
>able to create Powerpoint presentations and ebooks from the outlines is
>a powerful benefit to my work day.
PowerPoint should be able to import outlines in tab indented text, so many outliners could fit that bill.
I personally find the three major mind mapping programs most well equipped for exporting to Powerpoint, Word and (in the case of MindGenius and MindView) Excel, including managing styles. MindView even allows you to export, edit in the application and then re-import. They all have outline views if you don’t appreciate the mind map display.
That said, mind mapping applications are significantly overpriced compared to most outliners.