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Outlining Choices with Notenik
A hierarchical outline can be a darned useful thing, since it lets you organize content into a series of nested lists, allowing you to quickly zoom out to get the big picture, or zoom in to particular branches of the tree for all of the gory details.
Outlining is so useful, in fact, that the latest version of the Mac app Notenik (12.1.0) now supports not one, but four different ways of outlining.
But first, a Caveat…
If your goal is to brainstorm a list of items, and organize them into a hierarchy as you go, then you will probably want to use a dedicated outliner such as Bike Outliner or OmniOutliner, since tools like these allow you to quickly and easily move items up and down a list, as well as above and beneath other items.
Where Notenik can be useful is when you want to associate additional information with each item in the outline: a longer chunk of text, formatted using Markdown, let’s say, or a date, or a link, or whatever other fields might prove useful to the task at hand.
And an outline initially created using a dedicated tool can easily be saved into the OPML format, and then imported into Notenik, once you are ready to start putting some flesh on the bones of your work.
So, with that important caveat out of the way, let’s see what choices Notenik has to offer.
