The single most powerful tool available for a long-form writer (in any (human) language.) Equally useful for fact, fiction, academia, documentation, anything. Technologically simple, was done well on MS-DOS in a few hundred kB of code and data.
Maps very well onto HTML, XML, etc. As such, maps onto AsciiDoc etc.
But forgotten. Almost no modern versions and what exist are almost unbelievably primitive, far far below the capabilities of the mid-1980s -- for example, Emacs OrgMode or LogSeq. Almost too braindead to use.
I keep copies of 20-30Y old MS Word binaries around on my 64-bit Linux boxes, just for this.
Outliners are a very underserved space, eclipsed by overwrought note apps that treat outlining as formatting rather than a fundamental tool for organizing thought and communication.
Indigrid (https://innovationdilation.com/) was extremely promising but is presumed dead.
Bike on Mac (https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/bike/) is probably the best living example.
...and there's not much else.
Otherwise I end up using OmniOutliner. The filtering can be useful (and it's a feature not really available elsewhere) but often OmniOutliner can feel slow and overly feature-heavy. Printing is also not great.
Exactly. The outliner feature in Borland's Sidekick Plus was my all-time favorite, but its lifetime was brief (due to the entire product being a TSR), so I used Symantec's Grandview 2.0 sporadically over the decades, even in DOSbox out of desperation (as recently as 5-6 years ago!).
Type to create items at different levels. Drag and drop to rearrange. Click triangle to fold.
I was looking for a solution when in Asia trying to call locally lines in Europe. I tried Skype first but the quality of phone calls was really deep shit. I was saved by Viber.
Don’t get me wrong, I love it! and I don’t think there is anything close to it.
Development Comparison: https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/libreoffice-vs-openoffi...
Never liked Lightroom and it is subscription-only now.
I use DarkTable here and there but never recreated all the albums and metadata I had in Aperture.
Apple pulling the plug was a major punch in the gut and I'll never invest so much effort again in curating a digital collection with proprietary software.
Wonder what it would take to convince Apple to bring it back. It's not like there's a shortage of talent and money to do this now. And it would be immensely appreciated, unlike some of their other projects.
There’s really no modern equivalent of build a base, gather ore in ore trucks, make base defenses and units, and fight in formations and garrisonned in buildings
Out of curiosity, why did you stop maintaining it? Have you considered giving it to someone to keep up? Apologies if this is addressed in a blog somewhere.
Simultaneously the visibility around that project got me hired more than once, but my interest in doing JavaScript for employment was fading as well. I still write JavaScript/TypeScript in personal projects to this day, but I do completely unrelated work now for employment.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/image-compo...
Microsoft Money. I moved to GNUCash, but still miss Money.
Winamp, as another comment here noted, cannot be considered outdated. I have tried many alternatives but find none to be as good. Sonique was a good alternative which stalled a long time back. Thankfully Winamp still works.
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