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Posted by satis
Mar 19, 2018 at 09:25 PM
I tried out Todoist and saw it was very good at making lists, but… outlines?
Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 20, 2018 at 10:24 AM
Yup, dual outlines, in fact. It’s a dual-pane app that can “fold” the contents of the left-hand navigation pane AND the right-hand “editor” pane. It supports markdown, and you can switch off the checkboxes that usually appear before each item in the editor by prefacing the item with a symbol (can’t remember what it is, off-hand). So yes, you can use Todoist as a very effective, very powerful outliner. With to-dos built in if you need them.
Posted by satis
Mar 20, 2018 at 10:51 AM
Ah, that explains what I saw - lists. All my outlines, for decades now, have been multi-layered. Todoist is not useful for that.
Posted by dan7000
Mar 20, 2018 at 11:22 PM
Looks like I’m late to this party but did not see these two mentioned:
Diigo and Moo.do.
Diigo seems really good for what I think you are looking for - it started as a bookmark manager and you can tag your bookmarks and arrange them in outlines. It even has a “read later” button/bucket. And ios and android apps.
But if you need more flexibility, you might check out moo.do. You can do mail-in by using their gmail plugin. It has excellent ios and android support. And it is very flexible.
Lately, I find that when I want to do something that is already well-defined like GTD or bookmarking or single-pane outlining, there are some obvious choices. But when I want to do something unusual that doesn’t fit neatly in a predefined crimp category, often I end up with Moo.do. (most recent example: I needed to copy a list of deadlines from a proprietary corporate database into my google calendar. Guess what can do that? Moo.do. I can paste in a list and tell it to add each to my google calendar. I found no other tool that could do it).
Posted by dan7000
Mar 20, 2018 at 11:27 PM
Luhmann wrote:
Evernote is a perfect example of an app that’s great for long term
>storage but not very useful as a short term solution.
>
>I think something like raindrop.io would be perfect if it was better
>implemented …
I had not seen raindrop before this post; just checked it out. It looks really nice for what it is. Is there something specific that doesn’t work with the implementation?