Visual Outliner is an outliner software for Windows, and it uses OPML as the native file format.
It's not just another tasklist/to do list application, but a real outliner editor that can be used to write, view, create, build, modify, reorder, and maintain hierarchically arranged text.
Visual Outliner is useful for brainstorming, as it can help you capture and organize your thoughts in a flexible hierarchical structure. It’s a great helper for writing novels, essays, dissertations, business plans, books, magazine articles, blogs and web site content in general. Outlining is a well-known solution to overcome writer’s block. Visual Outliner makes the outlining process easier, more flexible and more fun.
Visual Outliner is also a great tool to help you organize and plan for your home business, as well as strategy development, project planning and tracking, studying, note taking, event organization and more.
Visual Outliner includes an easy-to-use theme composer tool that can quickly help you build and customize your own outline theme based on outline hierarchy.
The "Bucket of Ideas” exclusive feature can help you harvest and mage your most precious thoughts and free up your creativity.
Visual Outliner satisfies all editing style demands, you can do drag-and-drop, menu actions or keyboard shortcuts.
Visual Outliner uses OPML to store data, but it can also export to plain text, html, and markdown formats for easy sharing.
POX added Visual Outliner as alternative to 2dTaskBoard
imdj added Visual Outliner as alternative to OPML Editor
Comments and Reviews
Best alternative to UV Outliner
Very nice features in an outliner (Bucket, Tags, line comments, etc.) but still buggy and a little immature. Tried but I can not use it as is.
It's the only one of its kind for Windows. I like it's flexibility and the fact the you can build your own theme based on outline hierarchy. The Bucket of Ideas is a great feature for brainstorming.
[Edited by Mark1952, November 19]