Outliner for iPad

I'm something of an outline fanatic, and this app is awesome. It's a perfect blend of functionality and ease of use. One feature I love is you can collapse all the sub items under a heading, move the heading in the outline, and it takes all the subitems with it- one swipe handles it all!

CarbonFin's Outliner is still my favorite outliner on the iPad. It is by far the easiest to use and works just like the outliners on my Macs twenty or thirty years ago. Except that it is MUCH more fun to use with the iPad's touchscreen. I can outline articles or newsletters or simply jot down ideas much more quickly here in Outliner than in just about any other app on my iPad. Being in outline format, where you can simply tap the triangles to hide or show child items or whole sections, you can quickly find related items and put your new idea in context. Or not. I've always loved outliners since my first Mac, using "ThinkTank" and "Acta" and "More." Pencil and paper could never match a computer: too much scribbling, erasing and filling in margins. I never got into the habit of cutting the paper into thin strips or using index cards, which were too expensive anyway and better used as flash cards. Once affordable home computers appeared, outlining on pieces of paper was instantly obsolete. Thanks, Steve and Steve! And thanks to Dave Winer for his early easy-to-use outliners! You can write almost anything with Outliner. I've written articles where I outlined each paragraph. Each sentence was a different item and sometimes even each phrase, so that I could rearrange them until I achieved the impact I wanted. I'm sure that people have written books with it. I've tried, but I never had the endurance, nor the typing speed. For people like me Outliner is better suited to writing poetry or lyrics or short stories. And it should be great for constructing jokes. I use the iPhone version for grocery lists and to jot down or even dictate ideas. Maybe I should try dictating a novel in Outliner on my iPad! That would be doable -- Apple has a great dictation feature using Siri. Might even be fun! When does NaNoWriMo start? Why wait?

I've been using Carbonfin for several years while completing four years of graduate study. When I start my final papers, or independent projects, Carbonfin is the first app I open. The syncing over Dropbox is flawless and it's best feature. I have this app on my iPad and iPhone, and a stand alone outliner on my Mac, so I'm able add ideas whenever they come, build my arguments, and work in whatever setting I find myself. If you are in any line of work where outlining your thoughts is crucial or necessary, you must get this app.

I've tried several of the "bigger" outline apps out there and this one remains my favorite. My favorite features: - instant syncing - iPhone/iPad apps - a full featured web app for times when I need web access - outline sharing - hiding archived lists My wife and I mainly use it for sharing lists of todos when we have trips or events we need to plan together. The thing has never crashed and the syncing has been flawless.

I've tried dozens of outlining and mind mapping apps, but always return to Outliner. It just works! Keep up the good work, guys! This is one of the single most useful apps in my toolkit.

This I precisely the outliner that I was looking for. It allows me to create a hierarchical list of items where I can indent them into sub lists. Reorganizing the list is as easy as dragging an item. It also has check boxes which is great to show if I have completed an item. This is simple, elegant and priced right.

My favorite feature is that it keeps copies in synch, so the shared checklists are always up to date on whatever devices they live on. A nice to have feature would be to mark a task as in progress but not yet complete. The workaround is just to leave the task open and use notes for progress. One can also micromanage by splitting the task down into two or more sub tasks. Another nice to have would be counts of how many tasks are in the outline, just informationally.

I have three outliner apps, but this one is tops for ease of use. I get it, and the controls for moving items are great. Thanks for the new update.