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Dave Winer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The list was started<\/a> by Jesse Grosjean<\/a> of Hog Bay Software, as part of the development of his Bike outliner<\/a> for the Mac.<\/p>

I, Dave Winer<\/a>, offered to transcribe the list and provide a means for it to grow here on opml.org<\/a>.<\/p>

This page is of course an outline<\/a>, so you should be able to open it in any of these outliners.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

OmniOutliner can also directly open and save OPML files, although opening the same file at the same time as Bike doesn’t work the way it does between Bike and BBEdit. Bike sees changes made by OmniOutliner, but OmniOutliner doesn’t see changes made by Bike. [Update (2022-05-25): I think this is a Bike bug<\/a>.]<\/p>\n\n

Dave Winer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Outliners will have compatible apps that render them.<\/p>\n

Right now the renderers are specific to the outliner.<\/p>\n

It’s as if you could only use one word processor with a printer.<\/p>\n

As we get more interop between outliners, based on OPML, it will be possible to write renderers that work with all of them.<\/p>\n

You could even mix outlines from different writing tools in a single presentation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Previously:<\/p>\n