Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?

Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by twic on Saturday December 08, 2018 @11:41AM (#18636026)

Acta, an "outliner", which means a hierarchical text editor:

http://a-sharp.com/acta/

I ended up writing most of my school essays in it. You could start with a high-level outline and recursively flesh it out until you had a complete document. The tree structure made it really easy to reorder sections at any scale.

There is a successor called Opal - the last version of Acta was in 1993, and the last version of Opal was no later than 2007, so it's dead too.

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by Lukasa on Saturday December 08, 2018 @11:45AM (#18636047)

Have you considered OmniOutliner for this use case?

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by Veen on Saturday December 08, 2018 @12:05PM (#18636168)

OmniOutliner is one of my favorite applications. I use it every day as a planner/outliner. OmniFocus grew out of OmniOutliner, and I used to be an OmniFocus user. But since I started using OmniOutliner I've completed the circle and use it for just about everything, including todolists.

Only big limitation is that it's Mac and iOS only. No web or Windows version (also, the Pro version is a bit expensive)

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by jvagner on Saturday December 08, 2018 @11:55AM (#18636109)

Have a look at DynaList (https://dynalist.io/) and Workflowy. There are apps, too.

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by jakelazaroff on Saturday December 08, 2018 @03:22PM (#18637305)

Notion is a great outline-style hypertext editor that I use constantly: https://notion.so

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by badsectoracula on Saturday December 08, 2018 @01:36PM (#18636696)

Some years ago i wrote this: http://runtimeterror.com/rep/ol

I still use it at works for notes, etc although under Windows is really needs a custom lnk file to setup a fixed window size. At some point i plan on rewriting the UI bits to use a GUI instead.

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by jacobkg on Saturday December 08, 2018 @02:56PM (#18637173)

You should definitely check out WorkFlowy (https://workflowy.com). It is a next generation outliner. People use it to write books and screenplays among other things.

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by wbl on Saturday December 08, 2018 @03:06PM (#18637228)

org-mode

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