Hiero (pronounced "hire·oh") is an outliner developed specifically for the Linux platform. Though it can be used to manage all kinds of hierarchical text, (task or "to do" lists being a good example) the hope is that it will be particularly well suited for use by those needing to draft essays, articles, dissertations, etc. According to Wikipedia, "an outliner is a computer program that allows text to be organized into discrete sections that are related in a tree structure or hierarchy. Text may be collapsed into a node, or expanded and edited." Hiero is of a class of outliners commonly referred to as "single pane" outliners, named for the fact that they use but a single pane to display both the outline's overall structure as well as each node's details.

When used in the context of writing, an outliner helps an author to focus on the scope and structure of his writing without his becoming bogged down in unnecessary details (like formatting). As such, an outliner is the perfect tool to use in the early stages of authoring content when the overriding concern ought not to be how the content will be displayed but rather, what content will be included (and in what order).


FEATURES

  - Multiple outline documents can be opened simultaneously
  - A node's text can include Pango markup
  - Nodes aren't limited to a single line of text or even a single paragraph
  - Hiero has a rich set of node editing functions
  - Keyboard shortcuts make working from the keyboard a breeze
  - Drag and drop is supported
  - Find / find next is supported
  - Supports multi-level undo/redo.


DOCUMENTATION

For complete documentation, see the user guide that's available via the application's help menu.


CONTACTING ME

If you have any questions or comments, send them to "bwb@fireflysoftware.com". Additional contact info may be available on my Ubuntu Launchpad page at https://launchpad.net/~bwb-s.

Hiero is licensed under the GPL. See "http://www.gnu.org/licenses" for details.
