[Vimoutliner] Re: VO Junior

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 26 June 2008 10:56, Scott Scriven wrote:
> * Chris Burkhardt <chris at mretc.net> wrote:
> > * Steve Litt wrote:
> > > So I'm going to make VO Junior. ...
> >
> > improve an existing project, ... rather than starting from
> > scratch
> > * <http://www.psychinnovations.com/psych/node/37> lists a few
> > unix/cross platform programs.
>
> Some of those look pretty nice, or otherwise interesting.  In
> particular...
>
>   - TVO ( http://bike-nomad.com/vim/vimoutliner.html ) is another
>     vim-based outliner.  It claims to work with "Vim Easy", which
>     might be similar to what Steve had in mind for VO Junior.
>     Perhaps these two projects should get together?

Last time I looked, TVO has no license, so it's technically not free software 
although I think the intent is to have it free software. Also, AFAIK TVO is 
very similar to VO and isn't suitable for a newbie.

>
>   - TuxCards ( http://www.tuxcards.de/ ) and gjots2 (
>     http://bhepple.freeshell.org/gjots/ ) appear to be fairly
>     nice notebook-style outliners.
>
>   - TreeLine ( http://treeline.bellz.org ) appears to implement
>     the "hierarchic database" idea I've talked about before.

If everyone can "phone in" on the outliners they know, I can get together a 
shortlist. Here are my priorities:

1) Free software (not shareware, proprietary, or "demo")
2) Both Linux and Windows
3) Native format capable of being converted to tab indented outline (means 
text native format)

Extra points -- if it has tab indented outline as its native format, it makes 
outline sharing MUCH easier.

SteveT
 
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