Outliner
Revision r1.1 - 03 Feb 2003 - 21:13 GMT - TWikiGuest
-- TWikiGuest - 03 Feb 2003
An Outliner is essentially a Tree widget used to organize your thoughts. Each node in the tree is usually the title of your thought, and there's generally a textarea associated with each node.
As your thoughts flow from vague to specific, you add more child nodes.
Outliners generally fit in the "Easy to do bad, hard to do good." section of software applications.
As such, there are many bad Outliners out there, and few good ones.
The first Outliner I've every used was Flow on the Amiga, done by the same people who wrote ProWrite?, which was later bought by Lazarus Engineering and abandoned.