outliners
Hierarchy organization software
Outliners are software applications designed for organizing information hierarchically, letting users create nested lists of ideas, notes, or tasks that can be expanded, collapsed, and rearranged.
Writers use outliners to structure documents before drafting; project managers use them to break work into subtasks.
I sketched the book's structure in an outliner before writing a word.
The term also describes people who create outlines, though this sense is less common.
Those who open territory
- innovatorsCreators of novel things
- groundbreakersInnovators who start trends
- pathfindersThose who discover routes
- visionariesThose who anticipate change
early adopters · trendsetters · explorers · vanguards · founders · discoverers · first movers · frontrunners
Organized by rank
- bullet pointsMarked summary elements
- collapsibleAble to compress compactly
- indentationInward cut or setback
- nodesPoints of connection
branches · organizing · note-taking · productivity · brainstorming · planning · structuring · documentation
Unorthodox, independent-minded people
- rebelsArmed opposition fighters
- outsidersThose not belonging
- misfitsThose who don't belong
- iconoclastsAttackers of cherished beliefs
contrarians · dissenters · rogues · lone wolves · free spirits · black sheep · renegades · individualists
Departures from expected patterns
- exceptionsCases not following rules
- deviationsDepartures from a norm
- extremesOutermost ends of range
- aberrationsDepartures from the norm
data points · standard deviation · distribution · bell curve · variance · skew · regression · scatter plot
trailblazers
Those who open territory
- innovatorsCreators of novel things
- groundbreakersInnovators who start trends
- pathfindersThose who discover routes
visionaries · early adopters · trendsetters · explorers · vanguards · founders · discoverers · first movers · frontrunners · originators
hierarchical
Organized by rank
- bullet pointsMarked summary elements
- collapsibleAble to compress compactly
- indentationInward cut or setback
nodes · branches · organizing · note-taking · productivity · brainstorming · planning · structuring · documentation · mind mapping
mavericks
Unorthodox, independent-minded people
iconoclasts · contrarians · dissenters · rogues · lone wolves · free spirits · black sheep · renegades · individualists · radicals
anomalies
Departures from expected patterns
- exceptionsCases not following rules
- deviationsDepartures from a norm
- extremesOutermost ends of range
aberrations · data points · standard deviation · distribution · bell curve · variance · skew · regression · scatter plot · quartile
outlinersblank pages
Sheets without content
scratch pads · journals · digital whiteboards · sticky notes
- rough outlineUnpolished preliminary plan
- chalk outlineDrawn perimeter marking remains
- plot outlineSummary of story events
- body outlinePerimeter of physical form
- book outlinePlanned structure of chapters
- bold outlinesThick boundary lines