Simple Outliner (Free) for Pc

Great!

I really need a program that lets me outline term papers for school on my iPad, and I gave this one a try first. It doesn't work at all for what I need: -Only about the first 6 words of any entry are displayed (one line of characters across the screen); I like to write several sentences per line and Outliner just cuts these off at the edge. To see these cut-off characters, you have to edit the line, then move the cursor with your arrow keys (if you have a keyboard) or using the text-select option. -To include more in an item, you can open a whole page and type there. (Only the first 10-ish words of this will appear on the main screen.) I would have gotten by using this, but I cannot make the right gesture (swipe from left to right) so that it works - I've spend minutes trying to open a bullet and finally I gave up. -The tutorial is fine & quick, but it doesn't tell you how to move your documents off the iPad (to any other location). I got the free version - officially for the iPhone - so perhaps the iPad version doesn't have these problems. I, for one, don't want to spend the money to find out. If you don't need these features - seeing all of you line or adding a lot of text to a line - then the program is fine, but nothing great. I suggest you look further before trying this.

Very glad I tried this free app before buying yet another expensive overly-complicated program. This program is FAST. The data entry is super easy -- adding items, deleting items, changing levels, and rearranging items is easy. The developer did a great job of putting all the functionality right on the screen -- no sub-pages or sub-menus except for the page that allows you to create additional lists. Let me say it again -- fast, fast, fast. Much better then Penultimate, and waaaaaaay better than Things, which gets bogged down with all the GTD stuff. The paid version will eventually link to Google Docs. At that time I'll upgrade. CONS: It did take me a while to figure out how to delete items. The secret is to wipe the icon on the far right of the item, which makes a delete button appear. The "add a new list" interface is . . . Idiosyncratic. And a tad buggy sometimes, but if you play with it for a few minutes it works. PROS: Excellent interface. WISH LIST: More visual indicators -- either colored text or highlighting, or maybe an expanded bullet icon set.

This app has a few major flaws. I wanted a program to be able to do outlines with optional checklist elements. With this app, you can put a little checkbox symbol at the beginning of your outline line, but there's no way to check that box! Well, you could manually change the symbol to the checkmark, but that's awfully cumbersome. Next, there's no file management or organization of your outlines, just one long list. Finally, the app is just plain ugly. As someone new to the Apple world I'm really enjoying the pretty graphic design of the included apps. But this one is really hard on the eyes. The one nice thing about this app is that it offers a free demo version! Luckily, I found that Carbon Fin Outliner does outlining with optional clickable checkboxes, has file management via tags, and is pretty, to boot!