Michael
Reed might look disorganised but he always has his mind mapped, his brain stormed and his plan outlined.
Note taking outliners
Michael Reed looks at five packages designed to organise the myriad of thoughts whizzing around his head.
Want to organise all your notes and thoughts? You need an outliner W tool. Typically, a note is a text document with information that you want to remember. The two key components of an outliner are the note editor and a navigator that enables you to move between the different notes. The notes themselves are generally stored in a database or as files on the hard drive.
Why not just use a word processor? With outliners ,there’s no concept of a page and the text reflows as you resize the window. They’re also not the same as a text editor, because they do have a concept of document structure with headings of different levels, and you can usually add other elements, such as images, to the notes. Generally, you should be able to spit out a nicely formatted document when you want.
All of the programs we’ve looked at are open source and cross-platform. and are both Electron applications, but they offer good performance and they’re both heavyweights in terms of features. is more ofand are also native applications, and they sit somewhere between the others in terms of features.
