Online spreadsheet for comparison of software outliners

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Posted by MotionTwelve
Oct 30, 2015 at 04:56 PM

I remember there used to be an online spreadsheet comparing all outliners/information managers. I can’t seem to find it anymore. Anyone still has the link?

Posted by Jon Polish
Oct 30, 2015 at 08:14 PM

Are you referring to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliner

or this http://www.marktaw.com/reviews/Outliners.html

Jon

Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 30, 2015 at 09:42 PM

I think MotionTwelve probably means Pierre’s EditGrid list, which is sadly defunct:

http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/807/0/list-of-outliners

Posted by Slartibartfarst
Oct 31, 2015 at 05:27 AM

Dr Andus wrote:
I think MotionTwelve probably means Pierre’s EditGrid list, which is
>sadly defunct:
> >http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/807/0/list-of-outliners
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That EditGrid list was a rather good piece of work, and that is why, though it is gone, I made sure that it was neither forgotten nor lost. Should anyone feel the need to revive it, then it would be a relatively trivial matter.

This was/is the OutlinersSoftware thread: http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/807/0/list-of-outliners
This was the link to the EditGrid list: http://www.editgrid.com/user/pplandry/List_of_Outliners
This is the EditGrid on Wayback: https://web.archive.org/web/20130518075950/http://www.editgrid.com/user/pplandry/List_of_Outliners

I think I may have been the last person to make an addition/update to the EditGrid list (for WizNote).
I took a copy of everything and checked that it was in Wayback before EditGrid was shut down (we had lots of notice before that event).
I did think of reviving it myself as a publicly available spreadsheet on (say) Google Docs or OneDrive, but it seemed that I might be doing it just for myself, as I observed that no-one on the OS forum seemed inclined to revive it, so I thought they perhaps had lost interest. The Wikipedia entry on PIMs could arguably be a pretty good alternative, but I don’t waste my cognitive surplus on Wikipedia.any more as its crowd-sourced content has been shown to be be too suspect and it lacks the unbiased editorial control and genuine intellectual rigour that would normally precede the building of any kind of proper encyclopaedia. I thought that Google Knol might have offered a potential marginal improvement, at least, but I guess either it didn’t or it didn’t give a good enough payback to Google, so it was shut down too.

Posted by MotionTwelve
Nov 2, 2015 at 06:19 AM

Dr Andus was spot on. Too bad Pierre’s EditGrid list is no longer updated. The link provided by Slartibartfarst is also a nice collection but almost every second app is either gone or no longer being developed. All we need is an onlie wiki where everyone could contribute new findings. It’s way too much work for a single person to manage.

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