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Friday, March 15, 2002

I got tired of complaining about OmniOutliner not having OPML capability, so I hacked a quick AppleScript to make it happen. [Jarret House North] Cool. I was just asking for OPML support for OmniOutliner a few posts ago. Here it is! comment ()  10:05:18 PM  #   If you're viewing this page on a MAC and see anything funky, I'd appreciate your letting me know [jenett.radio] It looks great to me. I'm looking at it with IE5 on Mac OS X. Thanks. comment ()  3:25:27 PM  #   So what's so cool about an outline? It hierarchically structures information. In an outline I can create a heading and under that heading I can put a world of information. And then I can collapse the heading and all the information under it is tucked away for safe keeping. The heading is all I need to remind myself that I have more information waiting for me. If I need to get to the information, I can just pop open the heading and there it is. Outlines are recursive, which is a natural way to think. A heading in an outline is just a container for other headings. We work with outlines all the time. File systems are outlines. Python program are outlines. XML documents are outlines. A weblog (like any website) is an outline, both in its internal structure of months, days, and posts, as well as its forest of links to other weblogs. My weblog contains a list of other weblogs I like to visit. Visiting one of those weblogs is like popping open a heading in an outline. Inside will be many links to other weblogs. comment ()  10:06:41 AM  #   In case you didn't know, MORE was written by Dave Winer, whose interest in outliners continues today in Manila and Radio. And if next week's announcement is what I think it is, then outliners may again become a very big deal on the Mac. comment ()  9:54:33 AM  #

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