Alternate VimOutliner Website
(Steve Litt's Alternate Site)
Copyright (C) 2011 by Steve Litt

Other VimOutliner Resources

Official VimOutliner mailing list: http://lists.vimoutliner.org/mailman/listinfo/vimoutliner
Jim Tittsler's alternate VimOutliner website: http://sites.google.com/site/vimoutlinerinfo/
Historical VimOutliner site from the early 2000's (unmaintained since 2005): http://www.troubleshooters.com/projects/vimoutliner/index.htm
Steve Litt's presentation on outlining and VimOutliner: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8810772602188234059#
Peter Stuifzand's "GTD and VimOutliner": http://peterstuifzand.nl/gtd-vimoutliner.html
Various VimOutliner content from Steve Litt: ./littvolinks.html

What is VimOutliner?

VimOutliner (often abreviated VO) is a computer program to create and modify outlines. It uses the Vim editor as its basic engine, and shares most of Vim's keystrokes. VimOutliner has been designed from the bottom up for maximum input speed, so it's ideal for taking notes, brainstorming, outlining books and other projects, etc. It runs under both Linux and Windows. It's free software (GPL v2). It has the following features:

Collapse/expand
Promote/demote
Auto-indent
Body text
Interoutline linking (Windows installations must have cygwin for interoutline linking)
Executable lines (embed any content via an executable)
Checkboxes with completion percentages

Downloads

The latest tested version is 0.3.5. You can download it as a tarball (.tgz), vimball (.vba) or .zip file at https://github.com/vimoutliner/vimoutliner/downloads. If for some reason that's not available, you can download from this website the 0.3.5 tarball or vimball or zipfile., but remember, the newest versions are always available at the GitHub site.

0.3.4 is an earlier version, which you can download here.

Installation

Many Linux distributions have VimOutliner packages. Unfortunately, not all of them work right. If yours doesn't work right, use the download from this website, and use its install.sh install script. If you're the "trust but verify" type of person, you can open install.sh in an editor to see what it's doing. It's pretty easy to understand. Install VimOutliner as a regular user, because it installs in the user's home directory, not computer wide.