Super Slick Web-Based Outliner

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I'm a big fan of outliners-- a substantial portion of my life lives in shadowplan, the palm/windows/osx outliner--and I'm always looking at interesting new examples to play with. (As an aside, there is a fantastic series of articles running in About this Particular Macintosh called About this Particular Outliner that anyone even mildly interested in outliners should check out.) I've been tinkering with a couple of web-based tools lately: tadalist and sproutliner. They're both well designed with clean, easy-to-understand interfaces, but sproutliner wins on features - it's actually an outliner whereas tadalist is, as the name signifies, just a way to make lists. Anyway both are free and well worth checking out.

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David Hamilton. "Super Slick Web-Based Outliner." Academic Commons Issue Name (Spring 2008): 29 August 2008. <http://www.academiccommons.org/>.

Add this to the web-outlining competition

You can easily add 'Lessons Learned Server' to the web outlining competition. This is a web-based outliner that can really scale and contains a strong search too. Actually, I'm one of the development team members. We dont offer an online service (yet). But, the software server is downloadable and contains a really good pro-longed trial version. Let me know what you think @ LessonsLearnedServer.com

Re: Super Slick Web-Based Outliner

Tadalist, an amazing app from 37Signals, with their usability based design principles, very intuitive and an amazing web based application. The future of Ruby on Rails really creates a new revolution of web based applications, and also a framework for new workflows, etc. I guess with all of these online to-do list applications, etc now we just need world-wide free WiFi...