- Introduction Outliners allow you to organize text or place random pieces of information into tree-type notes or a well organized database. They occupy a unique niche among computer users. Many people see no benefit from them while others consider them an essential piece of software. If you are among the group that loves them, then you should check out some freeware reviewed here.
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OutlineEdit allows your ideas and words to take center stage. You can create, structure.
Welcome to Outliners.com!
Simple hierarchy editorsBy Dave Winer, August 1999.
Way back in the 1980s, I worked on what was then a new kind of software called outliners.
They started out as simple hierarchy editors, used by lawyers, educators, students, engineers, executives; people who think -- to plan, organize and present their ideas.
Over time the products became more full-featured, especially on the Macintosh. Then the category died out, no one can explain fully why that happened, but in the early days of personal computers, outliners such as ThinkTank, Ready and MORE were popular programs.
Outliners are everywhere
Outlining as a user interface, survives to this day.
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The expanding and collapsing file system viewer first appeared in Macintosh System 7, and now has become a common feature of all file system browsers. Word processors, presentation programs, script editors, project planners, personal information managers, all have outliners built into them now.
Perhaps this offers the most likely explanation of what happened to outliners, the idea was good enough that it found its way into every other application category.
Screen shot
Here's a picture of Frontier's outliner editing XML text that will be rendered as a preferences system.
Here's a screen shot of the home page of this site, edited in an outliner, of course!
Lost ideas
There were ideas in those early programs that are still unique, are not commonly available in the current-day counterparts. Examples include cloning, hoisting, mark-and-gather, outline math.
Antique software
In July 1999, my longtime friend Dan Bricklin did something really interesting. With Lotus's permission, he released an antique version of VisiCalc thru his website. To my knowledge, this was the first major release of antique software, and it was quite a milestone.
A couple of weeks later, David Intersimone of Borland, another friend from long ago, put up a website to distribute early versions of Borland's Tubo Pascal and C.
Then a few days later Dennis Ritchie, one of the major pioneers of our industry, and one of my heroes and role models as I was learning how to program in the mid-late 70s, released an early version of his C compiler, the one he used to develop the original version of Unix!
Thank you Symantec!
And then on the same day, I got permission from Symantec to release antique versions of my outliner software, ThinkTank, Ready! and MORE.
This is very exciting to me! The idea that my old software has a chance to survive thru the coming decades gives me a deep feeling of satisfaction that's hard to describe.
I want to thank Symantec for being so generous and open-minded. I hope good vibes and great publicity comes their way for letting us do this.
Apple and Microsoft
It's an incredible accomplishment for Apple and Microsoft that the ancient versions of this software, some dating back as far as 1983, still run on systems being shipped today.
Pointers
Read about the history of outlining software from my personal perspective.
Shortly after the re-release of MORE 1.1c, David Dunham and Symmetry re-released Acta, a classic outliner from the early days of the Macintosh.
We're following antique software, among many other topics, on Scripting News, a UserLand-hosted news site.
| Developer(s) | Dave Winer Living Videotext[1] |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 1986; 34 years ago[1] |
| Operating system | Classic Mac OS |
| Type | Outliner |
| License | Proprietary; later rereleased as freeware[2] |
| Website | outliners.scripting.com |
MORE is an outline processor application that was created for the Macintosh in 1986 by software developer Dave Winer[1] and that was not ported to any other platforms. An earlier outliner, ThinkTank, was developed by Winer,[1] his brother Peter, and Doug Baron.[3] The outlines could be formatted with different layouts, colors, and shapes. Outline 'nodes' could include pictures and graphics.
The company that made these products, Living Videotext, merged with Symantec in July 1987.[3][4] Around July 1999, with Symantec's permission, Mr. Winer released versions of the ThinkTank and MORE products on a Web site for free download.[2]
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Functions[edit]
Functions in these outliners included:
- Appending notes, comments, rough drafts of sentences and paragraphs under some topics
- Assembling various low-level topics and creating a new topic to group them under
- Deleting duplicate topics
- Demoting a topic to become a subtopic under some other topic
- Disassembling a grouping that does not work, parceling its subtopics out among various other topics
- Dividing one topic into its component subtopics
- Dragging to rearrange the order of topics
- Making a hierarchical list of topics
- Merging related topics
- Promoting a subtopic to the level of a topic
References[edit]
- ^ abcdFarber, Dan (2013-03-25). 'Dave Winer debuts 'classic' Little Outliner'. CNET. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
- ^ abWiner, Dave (August 1999). 'Welcome to Outliners.Com!'. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
- ^ abDave Winer. 'Outliners & Programming'. UserLand Software. Archived from the original on 2008-05-12. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
- ^Parker, Rachel (1987-07-13). 'Symantec Buys Living Videotext, Joins Mac Market'. InfoWorld. 9 (28): 5.
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- Price, Jonathan (October 19–22, 1997) How Electronic Outlining Can Help You Create Online Materials Retrieved April 17, 2016
External links[edit]
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- Outliners.com Archived information by Dave Winer
- How Electronic Outlining Can Help You Create Online Materials at The Communication Circle
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to MORE (application). |