Outline making programs?

Ninja Bot

Does anyone know of a free program that will allow me to easily make an academic outline, because Word is a bitch to create legible outlines in.

embrik

Ninja Bot wrote:

Does anyone know of a free program that will allow me to easily make an academic outline, because Word is a bitch to create legible outlines in.

Actually, if you switch the view to Outline (from the View menu), it's pretty easy. Tab moves the outline in a level, and shift-tab backs out a level.

HOWEVER, I've never found a way to print them in outline form, so that definitely won't work for you if you want to print it.

After searching a bit, I haven't found anything freeware that looks any good, with the sole exception of a Sourceforge app called The Guide. It may not be quite what you want, but it's a start.

OR

Thinking back to my programming days, you might do fine with a nice programming editor, such as jEdit. That will let you work with nested documents easily, and they should print that way too.

supabeast

Try Inspiration, you can get it at inspiration.com. It's a weird sort of hybrid app that combines virtual index cards with a text-based outlining mode and the outlines can be dumped to word files. I use it any time I have to do serious academic research.