(2003-11-05) Goranson Outlining

Ted Goranson on the history of OutLining and an encyclopedia of features. Focus on MacOs X products.

Update: new piece on significantly different Use Pattern-s.

Jan'04: new piece on the finer points of User Iterface work for OutLining. This is no small matter, my friends, because outliners may be the environment you spend your most creative time in - that time when the Mac is supposed to be special in understanding and supporting... This outline-of-outlines drawer has another pane below which is not shown. It displays an even higher level: all the notebooks of a user. Thus, in one presentation, you can have three layers of outline, more or less integrated.

Mar'04: overview of "legacy" outliners: In Control, InfoDepot, etc. It is to cry...

Jul'04: column on Userland Frontier going Open Source, and Marc Barrot's Active Renderer and Web Outliner. Marc's interested in adding Wiki features: I'm frustrated by Wikis' very limited ways of entering and modifying texts. We (that is Phillip Pearson and I) are currently working on building a more reliable and scalable webOutliner backend based on Apache and Python scripts. Once this is done, I'll combine WikiWord-s and Transclusion, add a couple of other wiki-like navigation and indexing features, and we'll come up with a new and I hope more compelling outline based group publishing system.

list of columns - getting into TinderBox, Mind Mapping, etc.