Outlinely posted a preview pic of their iOS app running on an iPad on their Twitter account:

https://twitter.com/outlinely/status/792916598960959488

That looks great. That could be a real winner. Thanks for the notice.

Wow, finally. The developer is decidedly unresponsive to e-mails (which makes me smile when I see the exhortation, in the screenshot, to send them e-mails with feedback), but Outlinely is definitely one of the best outliners out there. An iOS version would be magic!

I am also very intrigued by their mention of an "interactive sparse tree". Anybody know what they're talking about?

Ah, okay, good old Org-mode explains: http://orgmode.org/manual/Sparse-trees.html

org mode sparse trees sound like workflowy's search results. It highlights all matches and shows the hierarchy to each.

I'm very interested in an ios Outlinely. Adding it to my "these are promising" list, with Notion.so, Octopus Note, Bear Notes, and Writemonkey 3.

Might be what Outlinely desktop calls a "distilled outline" -- when you click a tag you see only the lines with that tag plus the minimal amount of the hierarchy needed to see the context of that line.

MadaboutDana wrote:

I am also very intrigued by their mention of an "interactive sparse
tree".

I think you're right, Paul. I'm looking forward to Ulysses having some competition in this space!

Bear Writer is looking very promising, too. The fourth beta is nice and powerful, with an excellent search function. The copy and paste service from web pages is also developing very nicely - it's now very easy to copy parts of web pages into Bear in Markdown format. Formerly, the copy/paste wouldn't work if Bear wasn't open - that's been solved, and Bear now opens automatically (it opens good and fast, too, unlike some other Markdown apps).

And now there are signs of a Gingko app on the horizon! Truly this is a wonderful season for CRIMPers! Especially CRIMPers who like Markdown.