More (application)
Encyclopedia
MORE is an outline processor application
created for the Apple Macintosh in 1986 by software developer Dave Winer
. An earlier outliner, ThinkTank, was developed by Winer, his brother Peter and Doug Baron.
The company that made these products, Living Videotext
, merged with Symantec
in September 1987.
With Symantec's permission, Mr. Winer has since released versions of these “antique” software packages on the web for free download.
Functions in these outliners include:
Outliner
An outliner is a computer program that allows text to be organized into discrete sections that are related in a tree structure or hierarchy. Text may be collapsed into a node, or expanded and edited....
created for the Apple Macintosh in 1986 by software developer Dave Winer
Dave Winer
Dave Winer is an American software developer, entrepreneur and writer in New York City. Winer is noted for his contributions to outliners, scripting, content management, and web services, as well as blogging and podcasting...
. An earlier outliner, ThinkTank, was developed by Winer, his brother Peter and Doug Baron.
The company that made these products, Living Videotext
Living Videotext
Living Videotext was a software development company founded by Dave Winer in 1983.Its slogan was "We Make Shitty Software... With Bugs!", although it was never publicly run in an ad....
, merged with Symantec
Symantec
Symantec Corporation is the largest maker of security software for computers. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and is a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500 stock market index.-History:...
in September 1987.
With Symantec's permission, Mr. Winer has since released versions of these “antique” software packages on the web for free download.
Functions in these outliners include:
- Making a hierarchical list of topics
- Appending notes, comments, rough drafts of sentences and paragraphs under some topics
- Deleting duplicate topics
- Merging related topics
- Dividing one topic into its component subtopics
- Assembling various low-level topics and creating a new topic to group them under
- Disassembling a grouping that does not work, parceling its subtopics out among various other topics
- Promoting a subtopic to the level of a topic
- Demoting a topic to become a subtopic under some other topic
- Dragging to rearrange the order of topics
External links
- Outliners.com
- JLarue.com, article on Classic Outliners
- ThePrices.com, article on electronic outlining