«The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste.» Steve Jobs A colleague of mine is currently developing an outliner. There is a surprising scarcity of good outliners, esp. for Windows. Even on the Mac there is room to grow. While OmniOutliner is nice (if also very expensive), it gets sluggish when it has to deal with large amounts of data. Seriously, just extract the text of «War and Peace» and copy-and-paste it into OmniOutliner. Yes, it’s a stupid example, nobody would put this kind of text into an outliner, but try it and you’ll see that OmniOutliner becomes useless. It’s not just sluggish, it takes seconds to react. And it’s only 15965 rows (574044 words, 3203406 characters). There is no reason why this should put any app on its knees. Especially not one running on a current generation MacBook Pro with 16 GB of RAM and a fast processor. I’ve adapted to this problem by breaking down my longer outlines into separate files. It works, but it’s not nice to work this way. So, if there is a need for a well-designed outliner, which features should it have? Killer Feature If there is one feature that determines [...]
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