LWN: Comments on "Outlining with Concord"

Outlining with Concord

tnoo — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 03:56:00 +0000

Wondering how this tool compares to Emacs Org-mode or the Leo editor. From the description, both Org-mode and Leo do mostly the same (indented outlines, hidden tags), and much more. Org-mode, as part of Emacs, makes it easy to link to everything else within or outside of Emacs (text file positions, dates, email, URLs, other Org-mode files), and provides a system to interpret specific tags as TODO items which are presented on daily TODO pages.

Outliners and mindmappers

skorf — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 10:13:43 +0000

It seems like outliners and mindmappers are trying to address a very similar need (editing multi-level structured documents), but with rather different styles of UI. Makes me wonder why the same software could not be able to show the same structured document in both styles.

For my part, I've been using FreeMind (free software java-based mindmapper) for years and it's a huge help in getting any project organized, and keeping it that way.