Outliner Lighto

Outliner Lighto is a small outliner program for the console. It can manipulate trees of text-based nodes which can be used for simple notes, tasks (with nested percentage support) and pointers to other nodes (allowing, e.g., cross-node references).

Features

Here are some of the features Outliner Lighto has:

• User-friendly console-based interface with single key commands wherever possible
• Uses a different color for each depth level for nodes that have children
• Automatic percentage calculation for nodes that are set as tickable
• Brief mode shows a single line per node even if nodes have long text, allowing for faster browsing of the tree
• Viewing nodes and their children (example) as flowing text (example) for nodes that represent, e.g. paragraphs in sections
• Scripting support through the LIL scripting language

Downloads

The latest version of Outliner Lighto is 1.1 released on Sunday, May 26 2019. It is available in source code form for Free Pascal as well as binaries for several operating systems. Note that to build the source code you also need the FPLIL source code (which is part of LIL).

File	Size	Operating System	Notes
ol11src.zip	225KB	All	Source Code
ol11d32.zip	289KB	DOS	32bit DOS version
ol11h32.tgz	960KB	Haiku	Only tested with Haiku R1/Beta1
ol11l32.tgz	216KB	Linux 32bit i386
ol11l64.tgz	237KB	Linux 64bit x86_64
ol11o32.zip	591KB	OS/2 / eCS / ArcaOS	Only tested with eComStation
ol11w32.zip	225KB	Windows 32bit

Please note: if you want to compile Outliner Lighto for any other platform than Windows or Linux with the provided source code, you may need to make minor modifications to the source code and/or FPLIL, otherwise it will not compile. I might address that in future versions with additional preprocessor macros.

Documentation

Outliner Lighto comes with documentation in the form of man pages in the source code distribution and the Linux and Haiku binaries as well as their HTML conversion in all binaries. It also has a scripting reference (only for Outliner Lighto specific functionality) in all versions and the program itself has a simple key reference screen.

Note: the documentation for 1.1 is missing the Ctrl+S key combination when editing a text node which can be used to split nodes at the cursor. I noticed this at the last moment and since i make all these builds by hand, i'll leave that for the next release...

About

Outliner Lighto is written by Kostas "Bad Sector" Michalopoulos. It is released under the zlib license as shown below:

Outliner Lighto
Copyright (C) 2011-2019 Kostas Michalopoulos

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
warranty.  In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
arising from the use of this software.
Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
freely, subject to the following restrictions:

1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not
   claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software
   in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be
   appreciated but is not required.
2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be
   misrepresented as being the original software.
3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.

Kostas Michalopoulos <badsector@runtimeterror.com>