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CarbonFin Outliner allows you to organize your thoughts, tasks, and projects. Easily create a todo list for today, or track an entire project anywhere you are. Share your outlines, edit them online, and collaborate with other Outliner users.
Category Price Seller Device
Productivity $4.99 Jeremy Dewey iPhone, iPad, iPod

Highlights
• Create outlines full of notes, structured lists, tasks, or detailed projects
• Sync your outlines automatically to Outliner Online or Dropbox for web or desktop editing
• Get a quick view of project progress - tasks with subtasks show a pie-chart indicating percent completed

Organize
• Search through all your outlines or an individual outline
• Tag your outlines, and filter based on tag
• Archive old outlines to hide them from view without deleting

Easy-to-use Editor
• Drag and drop to move items within an outline
• Copy, paste
• Undo, redo
• Expand all, collapse all
• Optional outline numbering
• Zoom in to focus on a single subtree

Outliner Online
• Securely synchronize your outlines with Outliner Online
• View and edit your outlines in any web browser
• Import and export outlines as plain text or OPML
• Keep all your devices synchronized
• Share an outline with other Outliner users to collaborate

Dropbox
• Sync your outlines with Dropbox to allow quick import/export
• Seamlessly access and edit across your iOS devices and PCs


-= Recent version history =-

Version 3.8
• Open In... support
• Ability to hide the outline list on iPad
• Minor UI tweaks

Version 3.7
• iOS 9 multitasking support
• One-tap access to notes on iPhone. To enable this, some UI was shifted around. The item chevron is gone, replaced by the "item info" toolbar button that previously only existed on iPad. The delete button was removed to make room for this, so swipe-to-delete is the only deletion mechanism.
• iOS 8.0 or higher is now required

Version 3.6
• Added zoom to focus on a single subtree
• Support for iOS 8 and the new iPhones

Version 3.5
• Automatic sync

Reviews

Excellent overall App
Jovenrenzo

This app is excellent, and I uses on a daily basis. This should have been a native app for iOS My only wish is better printing options (at least for the web page) like printing a selection or only a sub-tree After years of use, I keep my opinion with this App... “One of my most used and dependable App” Glad to see it up to date with the latest updates of iOS


Great tool, have used for years
Egasber

I switched to android, and there simply isn’t an app that is as useful for outlines as this one. This was one of the main reasons I came back to iPhone. Bought it again instead of using old account, just support the author of such a useful app. Glad to have it on my phone again.


Passcode
Feeling duped in NYC

Definitely need a passcode option.


Improve export capabilities
jenesaisqui123

This is an absolutely excellent tool. It would be perfect if outlines could be exported to Word in an outline format. As a writer, i would much appreciate such a convenience.


Unclear on the concept
silly redux

The app provides for the use of tags. I had intended to make an outline of a project and use tags to identify resources and people for each item. The developer just told me that tags can only be applied to a WHOLE outline, not individual entries. Makes the app useless for my purpose. Why tag a whole outline when you have a title. Support, when explaining this limitation asked. “Does that make sense?” Well...no.


Best App in the App Store
Steve24680

I do surveys and this tool is a game changer. I love it. I can give my client a copy of my “report” as soon as I’m finished. It took time to set it up but it has saved me so much time. It was easy to learn and use.


Great App.
Wghobbs

My go-to app for personal, business & university teaching. Intuitive and easy to use. One small suggestion: If there was a way to put projects into folders such as home, business, School, etc. as they say in Texas “I’d be in Hog Heaven!”


Great app!
Checker1111

I’ve been using this app for years and it is still one of my all-time favorites.


The Outliner I use Every Day!
RCH

I just pulled some notes from this app from a trip six years ago, and that reminded me to give this program a long-overdue great review. It’s wonderful to have information and lists so readily available. I use this Outliner for do-lists, shopping lists, as a short-hand diary, and for project planning. I take notes at conferences; having all those notes/logs in one place is a great asset for my work. Easily exported with OPML if needed. The beauty of this app is its simplicity and reliability. The one bad review was probably user error. This program has never, ever crashed on me. I use it on an iPad and an iPhone, and sync to the cloud. There are so many costly, overblown outliners on the market. But for daily use, Simplicity Rules!


Superb (with one request)
InMyOpinie

This is a very well thought through solution that makes creating multi-level outlines super easy. It’s a pleasure to use. My one request is for hyperlink support - making links in the outline or notes tappable will extend the app’s usefulness even more.


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