{"id":2682,"date":"2013-04-02T04:58:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T09:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2682"},"modified":"2013-04-02T04:59:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T09:59:01","slug":"outliners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/04\/02\/outliners","title":{"rendered":"Outliners"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cheongiyeon<\/a>I started using OmniOutliner<\/a> sometime since 2003. I upgraded to the Pro version in 2006. The software came bundled with a PowerBook I had (so thanks Apple!). This marks my tenth year with the software.<\/p>\n

It is an indispensable part of my workflow. I use it daily. The total I’ve had to pay was for upgrades (some $24.95 and $30 – so still much less than the $69.99 fee). I can use it when I’m online or offline as it’s a desktop app! The one thing that always kept me coming back to OSX even when I used Linux daily was this integral piece of software – there were just no good opensource outliners.<\/p>\n

I’ve always thought that the one thing I’d like to do in my spare time is write an outliner that lived in the browser. So I could use it on my laptop (online\/offline), or on my tablets or my phones.<\/p>\n

So it wouldn’t be hard to say that I’m excited by Little Outliner<\/a> by Small Picture<\/a>. This is Dave Winer<\/a> writing an outliner for the web browser!\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, lately, I’ve been thinking more about depending on tools that I have some control over. I’m getting back to my opensource roots even though I write this on a Mac. Big companies shut services down (look at google reader going away), and small companies have it a lot harder.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I want to depend on Little Outliner. I would even pay for it. But I’m not sure I’d pay for it in such that I’d stop using OmniOutliner, as there’s a huge TCO gap (even $2\/month makes you think desktop software is cheaper than the cloud). And without payment, I’m not sure this is a service that will be around in 2023 (i.e. ten years from today). And thats where I need<\/a> things to be opensource.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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