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- WU-04: Outliners
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- Idea Tree
- Mountain House Publishing, Inc.
- $69
- #7073/1502
- is a non-resident thought processor or outliner that uses a tree or
- "organization chart" type of approach rather than the usual "outline" look.
- Personally, we think that the standard outline approach is more compact and
- easier to grasp at a glance, but Idea Tree is easy to use and has a very
- professional look to it. "Pull-down" menus at the top of the screen means that
- you can use the program almost without looking at the on-disk documentation.
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- You can use Idea Tree as a business tool as well. You can record customers by
- products with names, address, phone numbers and a brief commentary, make
- organization charts with descriptions and assignments, and develop project
- schedules. Other features include a word processor, output preview, a
- composition organizing system, and more.
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- Kamas
- Kamasoft
- $39
- #7073/2454
- is an outline processor. Kamasoft claims to have originated the genre in 1984.
- Our highly subjective opinion is that Kamas is a hair less intuitive, less
- slick and less powerful than other outliners we have seen, such as Grandview
- and PC-Outline. On the other hand, it costs about 10 times less and does do a
- reasonable job for a low-end outliner. As best as we were able to determine
- from the limited documentation, it will not function as a TSR (pop-up), but
- with the growing popularity of task switching programs such as SwapDOS and
- DESQview, any program can be made into a "pop-up" whether it was written that
- way or not. The bottom line is that if you want to try a good, basic outliner,
- this is worth a look. Support is provided for Windows 3.0, ThinkTank,
- PC-Outline, MaxThink, Wordstar, MS-Word, and Word Perfect.
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- PC-Outline
- Brown Bag Software
- $195
- #7073/549
- is an outlining program that can be used in resident or non-memory-resident
- modes. While originally designed for writers to use in outlining ideas, it can
- actually be used as a kind of free-form database program. After storing
- information about a subject, you can hide the information so that only the
- subject line remains visible. This way you can see several topics at once and
- view the next level of only the one(s) you choose. If you are writing, you can
- export the finished outline to your word processor. If you have never tried an
- outlining program before, you really ought to give this a try. In the resident
- mode, it uses a minimum of 80k of RAM. (Note: Brown Bag does not allow the
- latest versions of their programs to be distributed as shareware. The
- registration fee shown is for the latest version of the program, which is
- substantially different from this one.)
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- Ravitz Editor
- Ravitz, Cary
- $25
- #7073/2377
- is a combination outliner and text editor. That is, lines can be hidden to
- make it easier to work on the structures of programs, outlines and documents.
- A trash buffer temporarily preserves modified lines. It is very powerful, with
- integrated outlining and overviewing. It uses a command line, function keys,
- menus, and has mouse support. It is configurable, programmable, and DESQview
- compatible. It will let you view two files or parts of the same file at once.
- A change tracking system lets you review new and modified lines. The program
- uses XMS upper memory blocks, 42K of the XMS high memory area, and 64K of EMS
- memory.
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- OutlinePlus
- Toliver, David E.
- $25
- #3268
- makes the creation and management of outlines and other structured text easy. It
- has built-in decimal and classical labeling notation that automatically adjusts
- to changes in the structure. It feels like a text editor with such features as
- full screen and file navigation; the ability to delete and restore text; search
- and replace; the ability to reformat paragraphs and the document; definable
- margins and more. Files are saved as ASCII text. Data can be imported and
- exported. We found the program to be intuitive and easy to use.
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- EasyFold 1.2 [EF12]
- Michael Reiss
- $49
- is a combination text editor and outliner. As you type, you can press a key
- to "fold" a section of text up so that only the first line shows. Menu
- options as well as folding/unfolding can be executed quickly with a mouse
- or keyboard.
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- Professional features of the editor include macros (for keyboard and
- mouse), undo's, edit up to 250 files at once, splitscreen editing,
- search-and-replace, and SVGA support. (Special order from the 10-93 CD.
- 112k)
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