Best Macos App For Making Outlines And Multi-column Lists

Apr 22, 2020 Trying a free Mac app for creating outlines is the best first step. After all, you may find that the free app has exactly what you need, so you can save a few bucks. And if it doesn’t, you’ll know exactly which features you do need and can opt for a paid version of that free app or at least know what to look for in a different app. Create a checklist, insert photos, customize formatting, or even add another Notes user so they can view and add information to it. Although it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of many other note-taking apps, Notes stands out for getting the job done in the simplest, quickest way possible. Your notes, ideas, plans, and to-do-lists, can grow sophisticated; Outlinely has all the tools you need to make sense of them. You can organize your notes and ideas into elegant-looking outlines, and keep complexity under control. # Work anywhere. Requires a Outlinely Pro in-app subscription.

Mac

Hardware

Mac Pro, iMac, iMac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac Mini
Intel 64-bit Core 2 Duo or better (from 2007)
2GB RAM minimum
1.27GB of available hard drive space; more during installation
1280x768 display size or better
Supports regular, retina, and expanded gamut DCI-P3 displays

Operating System

10.9 Mavericks
10.10 Yosemite
10.11 El Capitan
10.12 Sierra
10.13 High Sierra
10.14 Mojave
10.15 Catalina

Windows

Hardware

Windows-based PC (64 bit) with mouse or equivalent input device
DirectX 10-compatible Graphics Cards and above
2GB RAM minimum (4GB RAM recommended)
624MB of available space; more during installation
1280x768 display size or better

Operating System

Affinity Store version

Windows^® 10 (1607 Anniversary update or higher)
Windows^® 8.1
Windows^® 7 (Service Pack 1; Aero enabled)

Microsoft Store version

Windows^® 10 (1607 Anniversary update or higher)

iPad

Hardware

Compatible with…
- iPad Air 2
- iPad Air 3
- iPad 2017
- iPad 2018
- iPad 2019 (10.2”)
- iPad Pro (all models)
- iPad Mini 5

It’s Fast—Really Fast

Pan and zoom at 60fps
Live previews of transforms in the correct Z-order
Real-time gradients, effects, blend modes and adjustments
Always fast, whatever the complexity or size of your artwork
64-bit multi-core optimisation and hardware acceleration

Beautiful By Design

Built from the ground up for creative professionals
Full support for expanded gamut DCI-P3 displays on new iMacs
Uses Grand Central Dispatch, Core Graphics, and other great Mac tech
Designed by designers… stylish and uncluttered interface
Unified Application Toolbar (MacOS Mojave and above)

Highly Customisable

Light or dark user interface
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Create and save your own custom keyboard shortcuts (for desktop and iPad)
Create your own toolbars and toolbar layouts (for desktop only)
Reorganise on-screen panels, float or dock as preferred (for desktop only)
Tweak UI tool size and choose monochrome or coloured buttons (for desktop only)
Use Preferences to set up Affinity Designer to your taste
Work in pixels, points, picas and physical document units

Naturally Easy to Use

Follows industry conventions for the most popular shortcuts
Use Apple hardware including trackpads, magic mice, and magic keyboards (for desktop only)
Use generic multi-button/wheeled mice and graphics tablets (for desktop only)
Check the Hint Line and Context toolbar for help with current actions (for desktop only)
Full screen, windowed and separated screen modes (for desktop only)
Quickly hide all tools and panels for a bigger design preview
Work with multiple designs and multiple displays
Document presets or save your own custom document setups

Mixed Discipline Design

Task-focused design spaces create a clean, efficient environment
Switch between vector, pixel, and export modes
One Affinity file format is compatible with all Affinity suite apps

Over 1,000,000% Zoom

Zoom way beyond 1,000,000% — smoothly and quickly
See a reassuringly CAD-like level of precision
Instantly switch between favourite zoom levels

Rich History

Instantly undo/redo over 8,000 History steps
Store document states as Snapshots
Save History so you can undo steps later even on different computers
Undo actions performed in other Affinity suite apps
Cycle Futures feature prevents history loss after editing from undos
A seamless AutoSave protects against unexpected shutdowns

Sharing and Backup

Save to iCloud for online backup and sync
Share to email, Messages and AirDrop

Professional Samples

Peek into the minds of other illustrators with professional samples

No Subscription

For a single, one-off price you will own the current version (v1) of the app (on your chosen operating system). It’s yours to keep and you’ll even receive free updates of the software until version 2 becomes available (no planned date currently). You can then simply continue using the version you have or choose to upgrade to version 2 for an additional cost.

Languages

English (US and UK)
German
French
Spanish
Portuguese (Brazilian)
Japanese
Italian
Chinese (Simplified)
Russian

Easy setup with New Document dialog (desktop only)

Thumbnail-based
New
Presets for different types of output, e.g. Print Ready
Create your own custom page presets
New
Create as artboard
Access Affinity templates (.aftemplate)

Rock Solid Pen Tool

Instinctively and quickly create what you want with fewer clicks
Change node types on the fly without interrupting your flow
Switch between Pen and Node tools with a key press
Apply pressure, scaling, drawing, mitre and line end settings for organic strokes
Create single polycurve from multiple curves
Snap control handles to geometry, node, grid or guide
Arrowheads (and tails)

Curve and shape editing

Multi-node selection using polygon/freehand lasso drawing
New
Align/distribute multi-node selections (for desktop and iPad)
Transform multi-node selections using Selection Box
Match active node’s geometry to that of another curve’s node geometry (for desktop only)
Construction snapping for finding control handle’s angles and distances (for desktop only)
Jump through a curve's nodes with square bracket keys
New
Closed curves show winding direction at starting node
Reverse the currently selected sub-curve on a polycurve

Tool and Mode Switching

One tool flexibly selects, moves, rotates, scales, and skews
Switch to the Move tool any time with a key press (for desktop only)
Toggle between popular tools and temporarily change modes (for desktop only)
Intuitively edit objects within groups without ungrouping
Optionally move parent objects without their child layers

Artboards

Create multiple artboards within one document
Use separate canvases for different versions of icons and other web/UI elements
Create stationery variants all in one design
Output artboards as separate pages in exported PDFs
Name artboards (including using emojis)
Apply custom grids and guides per artboard
Print artboards on separate sheets

Symbols

Simultaneous and automatic editing of repeating design elements
Create symbols via easy access Symbols Panel
Replicate symbols as individual symbol instances
Synchronisation across instances by default
Switch off synchronisation for isolated edits
Edit distinct object properties independently of each other

Ruler, guides and column guides

Switch on vertical/horizontal rulers that use document measurement units (for desktop only)
Create guides in any measurement unit or by percentage
Spread origin repositioned from ruler intersection
Multi-column guide support

Constraints for UI Design

Avoids time-consuming design rework
Auto-layout on differently sized device artboards
Scale and/or anchor design elements to their ‘parent’ container
Select object edges to be constrained
Max/min fit for fixed aspect ratios

Canvas Rotation

Rotate the page like you would when using paper to sketch
Maps to popular graphics tablet and keyboard controls (for desktop only)
Disable canvas rotation to prevent accidental use

Corner Tool

Neatly round and soften corners on shapes and lines
For single and multiple nodes

Pencil Tool

Draw lines with an intuitive balance of accuracy and smoothing
Adjust weight automatically based on velocity, pressure, or use fixed width
Use stabiliser for super smooth pencil strokes
Sculpt mode for repeating and continuing strokes
Arrowheads

Live Gradient Fills and Transparencies

Draw gradients live in your design, instantly and smoothly
Apply colour and transparency gradients to fills and outlines
Easily adjust the nodes and rates of change for gradients
Use solid, linear, elliptical, radial, conical gradients and apply bitmaps
Aspect ratio control (bitmap fill/transparency only)
Linear and radial gradients respond to object scaling/shearing with skewed fill handle editing

Textured Noise

Add noise to object fills and outlines, also as a gradient

Live Boolean Geometry

Join, intersect, subtract, divide and combine shape outlines
Boolean operations are editable (Compound Shapes) without using Undo

Editable Shapes

Regular shapes are naturally smart with unique editing nodes
Easily customise shapes, achieve neat results with snapping geometry
Create perfect squares and circles by constraining primitives
Apply special and rounded corners as absolute or % values
Customise cogs, stars, arrows, pies, and 14 other smart shapes
Presets for shapes or save your own shapes (for desktop only)

Advanced Layers and Masks

Organise using layers, groups, stacks and layer naming
Seamlessly mix vector and raster layer types
Thumbnail sizing - Small, Medium and Large
Isolate, rename, lock, hide and merge layers with easy shortcuts
Unlock all locked objects simultaneously
Show all hidden objects simultaneously
Clip and mask by dragging and dropping, masks remain editable
Apply multiple masks for complex transparencies
No limits on number of layers, masks, groups, or hierarchy of layers
Limit the affect of adjustments and layer effects by drag and drop
Auto-scroll jumps to selected object in Layers Panel
Colour tagging (retains PSD layer colours)

Clipping

Add artwork within shapes and layers using Insert Inside and Paste Inside
Also Insert Behind and Insert Above the current layer

Live Pixel and Outline Views

See in standard and retina qualities in Pixel view—while still editing
Wireframe Outline view distils your shapes and line art

Live Split Screen

Split the screen to show Regular and Pixel or Outline views together, live
Drag the splitter across your design in real time
Continue designing, the view is totally live

Convert to Curves

Convert primitives, imported vectors, and text to editable curves
Optionally convert some objects to curves at export time

Multi Stroke and Fill

Appearance Panel for all multi stroke/fill management
Stack strokes and fills like layers
Any stroke can have its own stroke width
Any stroke or fill can have its own blend mode and colour gradient
Save as custom Style for later use
Place stroke in front or behind fill

Improved Expand Stroke

Detach outlines from vector objects to create new shapes
Add new outlines to expanded strokes

Power Duplicate

Duplicate objects and repeat transforms all in one go
Create geometric patterns or repeating, scaling, rotating designs

Snapping

Better snapping performance with complex geometries
Snap to grids, guides, canvas edges, margins, gaps and more
Tailor for different use cases or choose task-based presets
Force Pixel Alignment snapping option for UI and web design
Snapping candidate control (last six selected or layer based)
Dynamic alignment works smoothly on snapping candidates
Save favourite snapping settings as new presets (for desktop only)

Layout Grids

Create standard square and rectangular grids
Create axonometric grids (isometric layouts and more)
Isometric Panel (desktop) or context options (iOS) for easier grid creation, transforms and plane switching
Transform objects directly onto grid planes
Custom grids (Triangular, 2-axis and 3-axis)
Cube mode for custom grids from transformable cube
On-page draggable grid origin with grid axis scaling and angle adjustment
Snap grid to object angles to reconstruct useful grids from finished artworks or sketches
Snapping and constraining axis (for desktop only)
User-definable axis subdivisions for intermediate angles (for desktop only)
Change grid colour and opacity
Snap to standard and custom grids for accurate designing
Presets for Grid & Axis Manager or save your own grid

Misc Design Aids

Inter-object measurement guides
Clip to page/artboard canvas

Aligning and Distributing

Align to left, centre, right, top, middle, bottom
Works to selection bounds, spread (artboard), margins, first/last selected
Automatically distribute objects horizontally or vertically
Distribute to your choice of spacing
Alignment handles for precise alignment of a selection to a position on page
Change object Z-order

Transforms

Accurately position and scale objects to specific values
Use functions like +50% to scale objects (for desktop only)
Apply transforms about an anchor point selected in the Transform panel
Rotate using dedicated lollipop handle
Set a custom centre of rotation
Reposition objects by their custom transform origin
Skew using on-screen controls or the Transform panel
Flip objects with handy buttons
Point Transform Tool scales and rotates about a chosen point
Transform selected objects separately

Switch Views

Save favourite view settings in the Navigator panel
Quickly switch from one part of a document to another at different zoom

Multiple Views (for desktop only)

See the same design, live, with different pan, zoom, or view modes
Work on objects close up separately from the parent design
Work on website and UI elements as part of a larger mock-up

Assets for easy access to stored design elements

Dedicated panel for asset storage
Ready-to-go iOS design elements (icons, bars, controls, and more)
Store any object to a custom subcategory
Import/export assets

Styles

Save combinations of fill, line and effects settings for reuse
Apply styles for design consistency, e.g. your favourite letterpress
Optionally scale styles with objects
Search for styles by style name

Embed and Place Artwork

Embed PSDs, Affinity Designer files and others as part of larger designs
Double-click to open and edit embedded designs and PSDs
Place regular artwork and edit in-situ as normal
Use embedded document’s artboards selectively
Maintain embedded contents as vectors on export

Program Defaults

Apply your preferred object settings as defaults

Best Macos App For Making Outlines And Multi-column Lists

Work the Way You Want

Tailor tool behaviours and UI settings in Preferences
Zoom, select, nudge and more the way you like

Apply Raster Techniques to Vector Art

Switch to the Pixel persona, select a brush, and start shading or texturing
Finesse artwork with Dodge, Burn, Smudge and Sharpen brush tools
See a live preview at the brush tip before you apply your stroke (for desktop only)

Pixel Selections

Isolate parts of your design to constrain raster retouching
Use regular shapes, pixel-width regions, freehand lasso, and selection brush
Select regions based on colour and tonal ranges
Grow, shrink, feather, smooth and outline selections

Add Bitmaps to Your Designs

Stock Panel to access free and royalty-free image resources
Place bitmaps and scale non-destructively
Apply raster adjustments at the object level upwards
Treat images as objects or as pixel-based layers
Multi-image placement click-by-click (for desktop only)

‘Magic Wand’ Selection Brush

Create selections quickly using a smart selection brush
Automatically grow regions to detected edges, whether raster or vector

Refine Selections

Select fine detail like hair and fur with advanced refining
Set refinement border width, smoothness, mode, and feather size
Output refinement as a selection, mask, new layer, or new layer with mask

Pro Font Support

Create elegant text with OpenType, Type 1, and True Type fonts
Use advanced OpenType features including Ligatures
Insert placeholder text while constructing designs
Insert special characters and symbols
Copy and paste style between objects
Font fallbacks

Live Font Previews

Fonts are previewed instantly while creating or customising text
Access fonts by collection for efficiency (for desktop only)
Browse recent, used or your favourite fonts (for desktop only)

Live OpenType Feature Previews

Typography panel shows live feature previews
Easily select the right Stylistic Set every time
Preview Ligatures, Contextual Alternates, Swashes and more

Glyph Browser (for desktop only)

Quickly insert special characters into your text
Display in glyph or Unicode order
Filter by font subset, e.g. cyrillic
Search for phrase, glyph value or Unicode value

Character and Paragraph Panels

Style text with on-screen panels you can dock, move, and resize
Adjust kerning, tracking, shear, baseline and other character attributes
Easily set leading, indents, tab stops and justification
Optical character alignment (hanging punctuation)
Comprehensive bullets and numbering (for desktop only)

Art and Frame Text

Adding scalable art text is perfect for quick headlines and callouts
Add body text to designs using frames as containers
Create containers of any shape
Control alignment, justification, character and paragraph settings
Optionally scale text content when scaling the parent text frame
Vertically align frame text
Fit text frame to contained text
Live spell checking

Text-on-a-Path

Type text along a custom curve
Control start and end points
Set text on both or either side of lines
Convert shapes to text paths
Control all the normal text attributes including baseline

Text Styles (for desktop only)

Ensure text appears consistent
Apply character and paragraph styles
Easily update styles cross-document
Design from scratch or from text selection
Style hierarchies
Style groups

Professional Colour

True end-to-end CMYK for professional workflows
RGB, RGB Hex, LAB, CMYK and Greyscale colour models
PANTONE^® colour swatches
ICC colour management profiles supported
Apple ColorSync^™ adds monitor, printer and paper profiles
Seamlessly jump between colour modes
Lock to prevent colour mode switching (for desktop only)

Pantone^® Colour Matching

PANTONE^® Goe^™
PANTONE^® GoeBridge^™
PANTONE^®+ Formula Guide Solid (V2)
PANTONE^®+ CMYK
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PANTONE^®+ Color Bridge (V2)
PANTONE^®+ Metallic, Neon, and Pastels
Coated and uncoated variants

Full PSD Support

Accurate opening/saving of Adobe® Photoshop® PSD files
Open very large PSB files
Maintain layers, groups, gradients, blend modes, paths, masks and more
Take PSDs into Apple Motion and Final Cut Pro X

Open Files from Other Apps

Open PDFs, Adobe^® Illustrator^® files containing a PDF stream
Edit objects in their native form—shapes, text, images
SVG and EPS supported for vector designs
Illustrator objects, groups and effects maintained where possible
Open and edit Adobe^® FreeHand^® files (versions 9-11)

PDF and PDF/X compatible

Save designs as PDF for sharing
Edit and save PDFs for round-trip app compatibility
Create and edit CMYK PDF/X files for pro printing
Compatible with PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, and PDF/X-4

Professional Printing

Full CMYK handling and ICC profiles
Spot colours (for desktop only)
Overprint controls (for desktop only)
Trim, bleed and crop marks
Bleed preview

Open and Save SVG and EPS

Open, edit, and output industry standard EPS and SVG files

Smart Colour Picker

Dedicated Tool for Designer and Pixel Persona
Accurately pick colour using a magnifier over any part of your display
Point or colour averaged sampling
Sample from current or all layers
Grab in the source colour space including CMYK, RGB and LAB colour
Simple panel-based Colour Picker as alternative

Palettes and Swatches

Use colours and palettes based on all the available colour models
Automatically create palettes based on document colours
Import Adobe® Swatch Exchange (.ase) files
Display palettes created in other apps using Apple System Colour Palettes
Create complementary, analogous and other colour chords
Generate palette from any image (for desktop only)

Global Colours (for desktop only)

Update objects in your document when their base colour changes
Tint levels are retained when base colour updates
Use as solid colours or in gradients

Advanced Rendering

Per-object gamma blending
Use some adjustments across colour modes
Live wireframe and pixel views
Split screen views

Full Open or Import List

Adobe^® Photoshop^® PSD
Adobe^® Photoshop^® PSB
Adobe^® Illustrator^® AI (containing PDF stream)
PDF
SVG
EPS
Adobe^® FreeHand^® (versions 9 to 11)
PNG
TIFF
JPG
GIF
EXR (Open EXR)
HDR (Radiance)
Affinity Photo native file
Affinity Publisher native file (includes page navigation)
Extensive RAW import library (auto-process on import)
DNG
HEIF with depth map (as separate layer)

Full Save or Export List

Affinity template (.aftemplate)
Adobe^® Photoshop^® PSD
PDF (can be opened in Adobe^® Illustrator^®)
SVG
EPS
TIFF
PNG
JPG
GIF
EXR (Open EXR)
HDR (Radiance)
Affinity common file format

Retina @2x/@3x Web and UI Assets

Output standard and retina resolutions in one go
Retina versions are auto-named with @2x and @3x suffix
Create complete icon or sprite sets within one document
Prototype whole web pages or create individual web graphics
Deliver UI asset designs easily
iOS Application/Universal icon presets
Batch Builder for multi-slice imagesets (Xcode asset JSON) (for desktop only)
Xcode path templates (for desktop only)
JSON export for Spine
Export to absolute sizes (for desktop only)

Export Presets

Create your own export presets for consistency across projects
Use popular presets that are supplied with Affinity Designer
Set your default export format

Slices

Output individual pages/artboards, objects, groups, layers as slices
Draw custom slices from scratch or modify from object slices
Automatically create slices from layer contents
Auto-name exported files using layer/slice names
Slice presets for popular image formats and for UI design (for desktop only)
Apply slice presets to selected slices (for desktop only)
Multiple export setups, formats and resolutions per slice (for desktop only)
Hide layer contents during export process
Exclude layer content from export
Export at multiple resolutions in one operation (for desktop only)
Output all slices at once, just one slice, or selected slices
Export image sizes individually (for desktop only)
Copy/paste export setups and formats between selected slices (for desktop only)

Advanced Scaling and Resampling

Optionally scale content when resizing documents
Mixed format artwork scaled intelligently for highest quality
Lanczos 3, Bicubic, Bilinear and Nearest Neighbour resampling methods

Efficient Affinity File Format

Compact and fast native file format
Fully editable in Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher

16-bits per Channel Support

16-bits per channel mode for accurate colour processing
Works on all supported hardware and macOS versions without limits

Non-Destructive Editing

Apply to any object, layer, group—whether vector or raster
See effects, blend modes and adjustments instantly with no lag
Completely finish designs without switching to another app
Edit any time—all effects, adjustments, and blend modes are non-destructive
Set blend modes for strokes, layers, objects, groups, and masks
Selectively recolour artwork and designs without laborious reworking

Live Adjustments

Levels
White Balance
HSL (with hue colour ranges and colour picker)
Recolour
Black and White
Brightness and Contrast
Posterise
Vibrance
Exposure
Shadows/Highlights
Threshold
Curves
Channel Mixer
Gradient Map
Selective Colour
Colour Balance
Invert
Soft Proof
3D LUT (3D Look Up Table for complex adjustments)
Lens Filter
Split Toning

Live Effects

Gaussian Blur
Outer Shadow
Inner Shadow
Outer Glow
Inner Glow
Outline
3D
Bevel/Emboss
Colour Overlay
Gradient Overlay

Live Blend Modes

Normal
Darken
Darker Colour
Multiply
Colour Burn
Linear Burn
Lighten
Lighter Colour
Screen
Colour Dodge
Add
Overlay
Soft Light
Hard Light
Vivid Light
Pin Light
Linear Light
Hard Mix
Difference
Exclusion
Subtract
Hue
Saturation
Luminosity
Colour
Average
Negation
Reflect
Glow
Contrast Negate
Erase

Paint and Design Professionally

Give curves, lines and outlines a natural weight with graphics tablet support (for desktop only)
Create paintings at any size, you’re not limited to HD, 4K, 8K etc.
Use tablet shortcuts and controls to switch tools and control Affinity Designer (for desktop only)
Control size, pressure, and speed interactivity with live brush settings

Stroke stabilisation

Enable Stabiliser for super smooth brush strokes
Rope or Windows mode for different smoothing behaviour

Edit Pressure Profiles

Add style to lines manually with a built in pressure graph
Store pressure profiles for reuse

Flexible Vector Brushes

Natural media vector brushes include watercolour, ink, paint and pastels
Edit vector brush strokes, pen lines and pencil lines any time
Separate head, body and tail sections, plus corner treatments
Change path, weight, colour, fill, pressure gradient, opacity, and blend mode
Non-pixel aligned head/tail offsets when dragging

High Quality Raster Brushes

Brushes are responsive and natural, whether painting with a pen, mouse or pad (for desktop only)
Add easy shading and highlights using a standard pixel brush
Paint with added depth using photo-quality scalable nozzle textures
Pick up brush colour as you paint
On-page brush preview sets brush width and hardness
On-page brush preview now offers nozzle spacing and rotation control
Customise opacity (accumulation), hardness, spacing, flow, shape, rotation, luminosity, and texture scale
Pressure responsive (Jitter) to above brush properties
Wet edge support with customizable ramp profiles
New
Unified raster brush sets across Affinity range
Multi-brushes (combining brushes for a more interesting, less uniform brush stroke)
Brush symmetry (up to 32-way) and optional brush mirroring (up to five-way reflections)
Brushes with multiple nozzle textures can set their own nozzle controller/ramp
Wet edges and accumulation now on colour brushes/brushes with HSL variance
Nozzle rotation using left and right arrow keys (before and during stroke application)
Paint straight strokes constrained to X or Y axis

Use Force Touch (for desktop only)

Paint with pressure using Force Touch on supporting Mac hardware

Custom Brushes

Create completely custom vector and raster brushes using your own textures
Choose behaviour for pressure and velocity variance, corners, repeating areas and many other controls

Combine Raster and Vector Art

Seamlessly mix vector and raster design and art techniques
Apply blend modes, opacity and colour changes to achieve a perfect finish
Drag and drop in the Layers panel to control where and how brushwork is added to your vectors
Preferences let you fine tune how vector and raster techniques behave
Resize documents with or without resizing your artwork

Fill and Erase Tools

Solid colouring regions is simple with a raster flood fill tool
Create shapes for smooth gradient fills
Erase selectively without destroying vectors

Incredibly High Quality

Native vectors and gradients are output at any size with no loss of quality
Mixed media artwork is intelligently scaled and resampled

OS X/macOS

Pressure-sensitive graphics tablet and pen
Force Touch and regular Trackpad
Touch Bar
Mac keyboards
Magic Trackpad and Magic Trackpad 2
Magic Mouse and Magic Mouse 2
Generic multi-button and wheel mouse
Dictation offered by OS X

Windows

DirectX 11 and Direct 2D rendering with Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform (WARP) fallback
Hardware accelerated for smooth panning/zooming and rendering
Optimised for Surface Pro 3, Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book (including support for detachable screen)
Surface Studio with Surface Pen/Surface Dial
Generic multi-button and wheel mouse
Wacom (and other WinTab devices) support
Uses Microsoft Concurrency Runtime to fully utilise/scale across modern CPUs
High DPI support across multiple monitors

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An outline in EmacsOrg-mode.

An outliner (or outline processor) is a specialized type of text editor (word processor) used to create and edit outlines, which are text files which have a tree structure, for organization. Textual information is contained in discrete sections called 'nodes', which are arranged according to their topic–subtopic (parent–child) relationships, sort of like the members of a family tree. When loaded into an outliner, an outline may be collapsed or expanded to display as few or as many levels as desired.

Outliners are used for storing and retrieving textual information, with terms, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs attached to a tree. So rather than being arranged by document, information is arranged by topic or content. An outline in an outliner may contain as many topics as desired. This eliminates the need to have separate documents, as outlines easily include other outlines just by adding to the tree.

The main difference between a hand-written outline and a digital one is that the former is usually limited to a summary or blueprint of a planned document, while the latter may easily include all of the content of the entire document and many more. In other words, as a hand-written work an outline is a writing tool, but on a computer, it is a general purpose format supported by a robust development and display medium capable of handling knowledge from its creation to its end use.

Outliners may be used in content creation instead of general word processors for capturing, organizing, editing, and displaying knowledge or general textual information. Outliners are ideal for managing lists, organizing facts and ideas, and for writing computer programs. They are also used for goal and task management (including personal information management and project management), and for writing books and movie scripts.

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An alternative to outliners are mind mappers, which display a tree structure as a node–link diagram.

Design[edit]

The principal attribute of outline editors is that they support or enforce the use of a hierarchy of their items.

Editing: Sound parent-child relationships are enforced when the user modifies the document structure. For example:
- Promoting, demoting, copying, or deleting a parent has the same effect on the children.
- Every item entry must be within one level of its predecessor, such that each item must be a sibling or child of the preceding item (thus, no item can be a grandchild of the preceding item).
Viewing: The tool enables the user to affect the display by level. For example:
- Applying styles by outline level (e.g., bold all 1st level items).
- Displaying selected levels (e.g., show all 1st and 2nd level items, but none deeper).
- Lifting an entire section out to work on it in isolation, ignoring everything else during that editing, then dropping it back into place (known as hoisting and de-hoisting).
Search/Filter: The tool displays only items that contain the query terms plus their ancestors (parent, grandparent..) to give them context.
File import and export: Both the content and structure of outlines are conveyed when files are imported or exported (e.g., from and to tab-indented files).
Fields/Columns: Items can also have additional fields of information. This data can be shown as columns of data in the outline or as fields in the second pane (see 'Layout' below). Some outliners also allow the user to create custom fields and/or filter on fields.

Layout[edit]

There are two basic types of outliners: one-pane or intrinsic, and two-pane or extrinsic, each with its strengths and weaknesses.

A one-pane outliner is known as an intrinsic outliner because the text itself is organized into an outline format—individual sections (such as paragraphs) of text can be collapsed or expanded, while keeping others in view. Everything is displayed within a single area, hence the term one pane. One of the strengths of one-pane outliners is that, because the text itself is what is structured and because several nodes of text are visible at once, it is easy to edit across sections. The drawback is that, because the structure is not always visible, there is not as strong an overview of the whole or ability to quickly navigate between sections as with a two-pane outliner. Some word processors, such as Microsoft Word, have an Outline Mode to help with structuring documents.^[1]^[2]

A two-pane outliner separates structure from content—the structure is extrinsic to the text. A tree structure with node titles is presented in one pane, and the text is shown in another. Since the structure is always clearly shown at all times separately from content, this format allows for a quick overview of the structure, and easy navigation. The drawback is that since only one node's worth of text is shown at one time and navigation has the additional step of crossing panes, the structure is more rigid, making editing across nodes more difficult. This view is similar to many file browsers and email programs (which can be thought of as three-pane outliners).^[3] https://thenewlucky.netlify.app/red-alert-3-for-macos.html. This type of structure is useful also as a document management tool where the second pane is a document in place of textual information.

A one- and two-pane outliner may be combined as a hybrid. This allows multiple notes' text and graphics to be shown at the same time. The organizational power of outline in hybrid is in the parent outline structure, not in the second pane text, making it a very effective structure for topical organization. One additional advantage of hybrid is that single pane can be used as single pane outliner with second pane used for notes or reference tracking.

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A third approach to intrinsic outlines is the multi-column outliner. It is similar to the one-pane outliner in that the text itself is organized into an outline format. However, the text sections do not collapse or expand, and all sections are visible but held in a separate column (one for each level). This approach allows structure and content to be visible at the same time.

File formats[edit]

Several file formats support an outline structure natively or encourage the use/creation of outline structures.

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XML - XML's purpose is to aid information systems in sharing structured data
HTML/XHTML - outlines relatively trivial thanks to nested markup
OPML - simple XML-based format designed for outlines, but also used for syndication feedlists
OML - alternative to OPML
RDF - (various formats) has web-oriented node & arc graph model, a subset can be used for outline
XOXO - dedicated HTML-based microformat for outlines
CHM - standard Windows format for help, books, etc.

List of outliners[edit]

Desktop outliners[edit]

Name	Operating system	Notes
AllMyNotes Organizer	Windows	Can password-protect file access, supports skins. Free and Portable editions available.
Ecco Pro	Windows	Freeware outliner. Support subscription. EccoMV add-on for RTF pane.
FreeMind	cross-platform (Java)	Mind mapper and outliner with comments and graphical connections (links)
GrandView	MS-DOS	Single-pane outliner dating from the 1980s. No longer supported. Clone feature.
KAMAS	CP/M, later MS-DOS	(Knowledge and Mind Amplification System) Not as successful for MS-DOS as it had been for CP/M. Limited export capability.
KeyNote NF (formerly Keynote)	Windows	Mozilla Public License.
KJots	Linux
Leo	Windows/Linux/MacOS	Text editor with outlines; remarkably flexible tree structure. Written in Python using Qt.
MORE	Mac OS 7/8/9	Classic Mac outliner from the late 1980s & early 1990s
MyInfo	Windows	Two-pane, but can emulate basic one-pane outliner as well.
Outline	Mac OS X	Digital notebook for private and business use.
OmniOutliner	Mac OS X	Single/double pane outliner with columns and extensive customization capabilities.
OrgMode	cross-platform	Emacs outlining mode
Scrivener	Mac OS & Windows; Linux beta	Flexible content generator for writers; powerful multipane outliner
TheBrain	Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android	Free form graphical outliner
Treeline outliner	Windows/Linux	Free 3-pane outliner; 2^nd pane shows details of highlighted node, 3^rd pane lists details of its children.
Whizfolders	Windows	Two-pane outliner where the left pane contains the outlined list of item titles and the right pane shows the details of selected item
WikidPad	cross-platform	Wiki-like outliner

Mobile device outliners[edit]

Name	Operating system	Notes
Outline	iOS	Digital notebook for private and business use.

Browser-based outliners[edit]