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<h1 class="title">Outliners and Mind Map Software: A Really Thorough, Annotated
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<div class="node"><span class="submitted">Submitted by bobsterz on March 3, 2007 -
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<h2>I'm a big fan of outliners and mind mappers</h2>
<p>I use List Pro for lists that benefit from advanced sorting, such as
contacts, and because it synchronizes with PDA's, as well as Action Outline,
which has not note size limit, and is hailed for it's ergonomics (although it
hasn't really kept up with the times). Almost everything I do lives in Action
Outline.</p>
<p>This list was started in Wikipedia, but was removed (2/07) because it
included programs that are for sale. I haven't seen such a complete list
anywhere so I'm posting it here, with modifications and additions. I don't know
all these programs, but it looks like pretty much all those listed are among the
higher-quality programs.</p>
<p>YOU can help out by posting your thoughts and additional programs and
resources.</p>
<p>The last section of the list has "multiple platform" programs, meaning that
some of them operate in Windows in addition to other systems. Don't forget to
look there.</p>
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<h3>Did You Know?</h3>
<p>Word has an outline function that's pretty good for
Micro$oft! It has the added benifit of the style commands (another aspect of
Word that a lot of people don't know about, though).</p>
<h3>The PsycIN Directory of Mental Health Resources</h3>
<p>Interested in outlines AND mental health? I have an outline of mental health
resources that lives at <a href="http://www.psychinnovations.com/">here</a>, and
that is being imported into a more advanced set up (with searching and a better
outlining function) <a href="http://www.psychinnovations.com/psych">here</a>.</p>
<p>It's special focus is on free reading, research and news sources.</p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">Windows
Programs</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><a class="external text" title="http://www.topicscape.com/" href="http://www.topicscape.com/" rel="nofollow">3D Topicscape</a> supports outlining and
information mapping in 3D with flying and zooming.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.actionoutline.com/" href="http://www.actionoutline.com/" rel="nofollow">ActionOutline</a> simple outliner considered
highly ergonomic, has RTF.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.aibase-cs.com/" href="http://www.aibase-cs.com/" rel="nofollow">Aibase</a> is a free-form outliner (main pane can contain
trees and other object types).
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.alfaalfa.com/" href="http://www.alfaalfa.com/" rel="nofollow">AlfaPad</a> - simple outliner
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.natara.com/bonsai/" href="http://www.natara.com/bonsai/" rel="nofollow">Bonsai by Natara</a> is a powerful Windows
desktop outliner in its own right--that syncs well with its Palm OS partner.
See below.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.brainstormsw.com/" href="http://www.brainstormsw.com/" rel="nofollow">BrainStorm for Windows</a> - still selling,
launched November 1983
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.mhst.net/cuecards2" href="http://www.mhst.net/cuecards2" rel="nofollow">CUEcards</a> - free German outliner for
Windows
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.dynamiclist.com/" href="http://www.dynamiclist.com/" rel="nofollow">Dynamic List</a> - free web outliner for
IE/Windows
</li><li><a title="Ecco Pro" href="http://psychinnovations.com/wiki/Ecco_Pro">Ecco
Pro</a> - full-featured day planner with built-in outliner
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.freshoutline.com/" href="http://www.freshoutline.com/" rel="nofollow">Fresh Outline</a> - visually good tree but
notes are plain-text only (although you can add defined fields to notes).
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://theguide.sourceforge.net/" href="http://theguide.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">The Guide</a> - open source, two-pane
outliner with rich-text.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.ideacruncher.com/" href="http://www.ideacruncher.com/" rel="nofollow">Idea Cruncher</a> - Minimalist outliner for
writing and to-do list management.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.miclog.com/" href="http://www.miclog.com/" rel="nofollow">InfoSelect</a>
- freeform database, feature-rich and with a fast incremental search
functionality
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.metalgrass.com/karteset" href="http://www.metalgrass.com/karteset" rel="nofollow">Karteset</a>
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html" href="http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html" rel="nofollow">Keynote</a> - free outliner for Windows (no longer
developed)
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.richskills.com/products/1/" href="http://www.richskills.com/products/1/" rel="nofollow">kmAnywhere</a> - Integrated outliner with built-in RTF,
HTML, worksheet editors.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.iliumsoft.com" href="http://www.iliumsoft.com/" rel="nofollow">ListPro</a> - user can create columns in functional
formats, sort on multiple columns, outline can be flattened, can synch with
PDA, no RTF at this time.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.sommestad.com/lm.htm" href="http://www.sommestad.com/lm.htm" rel="nofollow">Literary Machine</a> - offers a basic
freeware version, as well as a more robust professional version.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.crystaloffice.com" href="http://www.crystaloffice.com/" rel="nofollow">Maple</a> - Sturdy, affordable two-pane
outliner for Windows.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.milenix.com/?s=1098" href="http://www.milenix.com/?s=1098" rel="nofollow">MyInfo</a> - two-pane outliner for Windows.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.mylifeorganized.net" href="http://www.mylifeorganized.net/" rel="nofollow">MyLife Organized</a> -
Smart outliner with roots in <a title="GTD" href="http://psychinnovations.com/wiki/GTD">GTD</a> movement. Provides true sychronization with
PocketPC devices.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.maxthink.org" href="http://www.maxthink.org/" rel="nofollow">Maxthink</a> - Outliner/Idea processor for focused
high-level thinking. Editor's Choice PC Magazine. 20,000 plus users. Expands
ideas into information, knowledge, and wisdom.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.ndxcards.com/outliner.asp" href="http://www.ndxcards.com/outliner.asp" rel="nofollow">ndxCards</a> - Outlining software for organizing ideas,
taking notes and writing.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.mynoteskeeper.com/" href="http://www.mynoteskeeper.com/" rel="nofollow">MyNotesKeeper</a> - two-pane outliner with
tab support for Windows.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.al-soft.com/nn2005/index.shtml" href="http://www.al-soft.com/nn2005/index.shtml" rel="nofollow">Neat Notes</a> - two pane outliner, with up to ten
additional tabs within each note and a unique "pockets" tool to temporarily
store clippings
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://nelements.org" href="http://nelements.org/" rel="nofollow">Nelements KOS</a> a 3d outliner tool.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.casesoft.com/notemap/index.asp" href="http://www.casesoft.com/notemap/index.asp" rel="nofollow">NoteMap 2.0</a> Feature-rich, very powerful outliner
marketed primarily to attorneys. Useful to anyone as a stand-alone--or as part
of the other attorney's tools made by CaseSoft. A little pricey.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.notetab.com/" href="http://www.notetab.com/" rel="nofollow">NoteTab</a> An advanced note-taker & outliner. Basic
version freeware.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.neomem.org/" href="http://www.neomem.org/" rel="nofollow">NeoMem</a> is
a free outliner
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://hardtware.de/products/outliner.php" href="http://hardtware.de/products/outliner.php" rel="nofollow">Outliner for
Windows</a>
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.pocketthinker.com/" href="http://www.pocketthinker.com/" rel="nofollow">PocketThinker</a>
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://home.arcor.de/jhoetger/scpapers/" href="http://home.arcor.de/jhoetger/scpapers/" rel="nofollow">Scribble
Papers</a> - free German Outliner for Windows
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.abstractspoon.com/" href="http://www.abstractspoon.com/" rel="nofollow">ToDoList</a> - free, powerful outliner with
a ton of features; many niceties for developers; color-coded priorities,
rich-text notes section, many sorting options, etc.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.treepad.com/" href="http://www.treepad.com/" rel="nofollow">TreePad™</a> feature-rich personal information manager,
organizer, database, and word processor--comes in several different versions.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.kinook.com/UltraRecall/index.html" href="http://www.kinook.com/UltraRecall/index.html" rel="nofollow">Ultra
Recall</a> - Outliner with multiple parent items
links, configurable item attributes and internal brower
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.whizfolders.com/" href="http://www.whizfolders.com/" rel="nofollow">WhizFolders Organizer Pro</a> - Uses a
different List based approach to outlining the pieces where the pieces can be
moved around easily in the list
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.zootsoftware.com/" href="http://www.zootsoftware.com/" rel="nofollow">Zoot</a> - a very versatile
text manager. Included here because its list of items can be nested. </li></ul>
<p><a id="Macintosh-only_Software" name="Macintosh-only_Software"></a></p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">Macintosh-only Software</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><a class="external text" title="http://www.activerenderer.com/" href="http://www.activerenderer.com/" rel="nofollow">activeRenderer outline
publishing</a> for Radio <a title="UserLand Software" href="http://psychinnovations.com/wiki/UserLand_Software">UserLand
Software</a>
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.aquaminds.com/home.jsp" href="http://www.aquaminds.com/home.jsp" rel="nofollow">AquaMindsNotetaker</a>
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.circusponies.com/" href="http://www.circusponies.com/" rel="nofollow">CircusPoniesNotebook</a>
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.zengobi.com/products/curio/" href="http://www.zengobi.com/products/curio/" rel="nofollow">Curio</a>
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://amarsagoo.info/deepnotes/index.shtml" href="http://amarsagoo.info/deepnotes/index.shtml" rel="nofollow">Deep Notes</a>
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.vortimac.com/dossier/index.php" href="http://www.vortimac.com/dossier/index.php" rel="nofollow">Dossier</a>
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?OutlineMode" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?OutlineMode" rel="nofollow">EmacsWiki: OutlineMode</a> - (X)Emacs outline mode
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.software-by-mabe.com/software/ikam.html" href="http://www.software-by-mabe.com/software/ikam.html" rel="nofollow">iKnow
& Manage</a>
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://danschimpf.blogspot.com/2006/01/macjournal-40a1.html" href="http://danschimpf.blogspot.com/2006/01/macjournal-40a1.html" rel="nofollow">MacJournal</a>
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/product/mori" href="http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/product/mori" rel="nofollow">Mori</a> -
Outliner / notebook hybrid with full text search, <a title="Smart folder" href="http://psychinnovations.com/wiki/Smart_folder">smart folders</a>, and <a title="AppleScript" href="http://psychinnovations.com/wiki/AppleScript">AppleScript</a> support.
Free for <a class="external text" title="http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/files/releases/Mori.dmg" href="http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/files/releases/Mori.dmg" rel="nofollow">download</a>.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.sebastian-krauss.de/software/" href="http://www.sebastian-krauss.de/software/" rel="nofollow">MyMind</a> - Outliner / mindmapping combination.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner/" href="http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner/" rel="nofollow">OmniOutliner</a>
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://a-sharp.com/opal/" href="http://a-sharp.com/opal/" rel="nofollow">Opal</a> the successor to the
classic <a class="external text" title="http://a-sharp.com/acta/" href="http://a-sharp.com/acta/" rel="nofollow">Acta</a>
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://blue-beach-systems.com/Products/Software/TAO/" href="http://blue-beach-systems.com/Products/Software/TAO/" rel="nofollow">TAO
from Beach Systems</a>
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://macromates.com/" href="http://macromates.com/" rel="nofollow">TextMate</a> -
Text editor with folders, folding, and simple outlining.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://eastgate.com/Tinderbox/" href="http://eastgate.com/Tinderbox/" rel="nofollow">Tinderbox from Eastgate
Systems</a> -
Create, organize, and analyze notes in multiple views (outlines, maps, charts,
etc.). Agents automate tasks. Documents are stored as XML and can be exported
to many forms (e.g., text, HTML) through templates.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.flyingmeat.com/voodoopad/" href="http://www.flyingmeat.com/voodoopad/" rel="nofollow">VoodooPad</a>
</li></ul>
<p><a id="POSIX_.28Linux.2C_BSD.2C_.2Anix.29" name="POSIX_.28Linux.2C_BSD.2C_.2Anix.29"></a></p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">POSIX
(Linux, BSD, *nix)</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><a class="external text" title="http://hnb.sourceforge.net" href="http://hnb.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">hnb</a> - Hierarchical notebook
(<a title="Ncurses" href="http://psychinnovations.com/wiki/Ncurses">ncurses-interface</a>)
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.tuxcards.de/" href="http://www.tuxcards.de/" rel="nofollow">TuxCards</a> Open source outliner for Linux
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/riot/" href="http://modeemi.fi/%7Etuomov/riot/" rel="nofollow">Riot</a> - <a title="Ncurses" href="http://psychinnovations.com/wiki/Ncurses">ncurses</a>-outliner, using <a title="Mbox" href="http://psychinnovations.com/wiki/Mbox">mbox</a> as
file-format
</li><li><a title="KJots" href="http://psychinnovations.com/wiki/KJots">KJots</a> <a class="external autonumber" title="http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdeutils/kjots/" href="http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdeutils/kjots/" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> - <a title="Free software" href="http://psychinnovations.com/wiki/Free_software">Free</a> and simple to
use outliner for <a title="KDE" href="http://psychinnovations.com/wiki/KDE">KDE</a> on <a title="Linux" href="http://psychinnovations.com/wiki/Linux">Linux</a>. Tree structured, it
refers to nodes as 'books' and notes as 'pages'. Book view shows a TOC and
view mode for all entries. No <a title="Word wrap" href="http://psychinnovations.com/wiki/Word_wrap">word wrap</a>.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://knowit.sourceforge.net/" href="http://knowit.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">KnowIt</a> Open source outliner, KDE-based
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://bhepple.freeshell.org/gjots/" href="http://bhepple.freeshell.org/gjots/" rel="nofollow">Gjots2</a> - Python/GTK/GNOME nice outline editor. Data
compatible with KJots.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://zoidberg.student.utwente.nl/zim" href="http://zoidberg.student.utwente.nl/zim" rel="nofollow">Zim</a> - A desktop
wiki and outliner </li></ul>
<p><a id="Software_for_UIQ_SmartPhones" name="Software_for_UIQ_SmartPhones"></a></p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">Software for <a title="UIQ" href="http://psychinnovations.com/wiki/UIQ">UIQ SmartPhones</a></span></h3>
<ul>
<li><a class="external text" title="http://www.MandalaIT.com" href="http://www.mandalait.com/" rel="nofollow">Mandala Notebook</a> - outliner
with Word import/export </li></ul>
<p><a id="Cross-platform_Software.2C_Multiple_Version_Software" name="Cross-platform_Software.2C_Multiple_Version_Software"></a></p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline">Cross-platform Software, Multiple Version
Software</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><a class="external text" title="http://www.lessonslearnedserver.com/" href="http://www.lessonslearnedserver.com/" rel="nofollow">Bloxware's Lessons
Learned Server</a> a multi-user server
based outliner that utilizes Apache,MySQL & PHP
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://buzz.sourceforge.net/" href="http://buzz.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">Buzz</a> a Python-based outliner
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://code-browser.sourceforge.net/" href="http://code-browser.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">Code Browser</a> a folding and outlining editor for Linux
and Windows
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.flydoc.ru/" href="http://www.flydoc.ru/" rel="nofollow">FlyDoc CRM</a>
full-function CRM and electronic document management system written on J2SE
has document/notes tree
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://inspiration.com/productinfo/inspiration/index.cfm" href="http://inspiration.com/productinfo/inspiration/index.cfm" rel="nofollow">Inspiration - Visual Outliner for Mac and Windows</a> -
Versatile visual outliner now being marketed for business use; also available
for Palm OS
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://outliner.sourceforge.net/" href="http://outliner.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">Java outline editor</a>
(<a title="Free software" href="http://psychinnovations.com/wiki/Free_software">free software</a>/open
source software: <a title="BSD License" href="http://psychinnovations.com/wiki/BSD_License">BSD License</a>)
</li><li><a title="Leo (editor)" href="http://psychinnovations.com/wiki/Leo_%28editor%29">Leo</a> - free multiplatform outliner
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.iliumsoft.com/" href="http://www.iliumsoft.com/" rel="nofollow">ListPro</a> shareware software for Desktop PC with MS
Windows / PocketPC / Palm
</li><li><a title="Microsoft Word" href="http://psychinnovations.com/wiki/Microsoft_Word">Microsoft Word</a> in outline mode is probably the most
popular outliner (Windows/Mac/Linux under WINE or CodeWeavers)
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.natara.com/Bonsai/index.cfm" href="http://www.natara.com/Bonsai/index.cfm" rel="nofollow">Natara Bonsai</a> - Works/Syncs on Palm and Microsoft
Windows. Software can be purchased bundled together or separately.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.decafbad.com/2005/07/map-test/tree2.html" href="http://www.decafbad.com/2005/07/map-test/tree2.html" rel="nofollow">outliner.js</a> Open source CSS+Javascript based basic
XOXO outline editor
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://support.opml.org" href="http://support.opml.org/" rel="nofollow">OPML Editor</a>
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.codejedi.com/shadowplan/" href="http://www.codejedi.com/shadowplan/" rel="nofollow">ShadowPlan</a> - Outliner for Palm with Desktop for
Windows, Macintosh and Linux.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://tkoutline.sourceforge.net" href="http://tkoutline.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">Tcl/Tk outline editor</a>
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.tiddlywiki.com/" href="http://www.tiddlywiki.com/" rel="nofollow">TiddlyWiki</a> - self-contained wiki has
outliner functions (as wiki engine)
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.bellz.org/treeline/" href="http://www.bellz.org/treeline/" rel="nofollow">TreeLine</a> - free database outliner in
Python
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.treepad.com/" href="http://www.treepad.com/" rel="nofollow">TreePad</a> Windows, Mac and Linux versions. Basic
version free.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://bike-nomad.com/vim/vimoutliner.html" href="http://bike-nomad.com/vim/vimoutliner.html" rel="nofollow">TVO: The Vim
Outliner</a> - A better Vim outliner
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.vimoutliner.org" href="http://www.vimoutliner.org/" rel="nofollow">VimOutliner</a> - Free software (GPL v2)
outliner built for keyboarding speed. Uses the Vim text editor as its engine.
Features promote/demote, expand/collapse, body text, interoutline linking,
checkboxes, color schemes, and executable lines to run external programs.
Downloadable from VimOutliner.org, or as Debian or Gentoo packages.
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://www.jhorman.org/wikidPad/" href="http://www.jhorman.org/wikidPad/" rel="nofollow">WikidPad</a> Open source Python based
powerful outliner based on the Wiki approach
</li><li><a class="external text" title="http://microformats.org/wiki/xoxo-sample-code" href="http://microformats.org/wiki/xoxo-sample-code" rel="nofollow">xoxo.py</a>
Open source Python library for XOXO outlines </li></ul></div></div>
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