2026-01-06 19:28 UTC
My love of outlines goes back to learning to write 10-minute essays as a freshman at the UW. We learned to spend the first 3-5 minutes writing our outlines (using the tools of that era, paper and pencil), then we would turn those outlines into prose. I quickly learned that those outlines were also great for putting structure to my history class notes, taking notes on one side of the page in my notebook, then returning later to rewrite those notes as an outline on the facing page.
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@kcase@mastodon.social 2026-01-06 19:57
As my writing tools evolved with technology, so did my outlining tools. I used the Outline mode in Emacs on BSD, then the outlining mode in Concurrence on the NeXT platform. I then found myself in need of a new outlining tool as we moved to Mac OS X, so we adapted a little tool I’d written for my wife (to catalog our book collection) and OmniOutliner was born. (Crazy to think that I’ve now been using OmniOutliner for a quarter century!)