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Introduction

Tines is an outliner, a planner, an organizer, and a notebook. It is based on the old hnb (hierarchical notebook) software, originally written and maintained by Øyvind Koläs. Larry Kollar ([email protected]) currently maintains Tines.

You can use Tines as a straight outliner, editing individual files in OPML, hnb (a simple XML format), or tab-indented text formats.

A more powerful way to use Tines is to keep all your working outlines, project notes, and calendar entries in a single file. If you do not specify a file name when starting Tines, it uses .hnb (soon to be .tines).

Roadmap

When I started listing all the updates I wanted from hnb after fixing the 64-bit issue, I realized I'd need a more organized approach. Maybe I'll get a little help.

These items are in no particular order or priority. If you want to pick one up and do it, no matter where it is in the roadmap, that would be great. (I would particularly like to have UTF-8 support as soon as possible, but I'm not sure my coding skills are up to the job right now.)

1.9.19alpha (YOU ARE HERE): The fork from hnb 1.9.18pre7. This version runs on 64-bit computers and fixes a minor bug that caused other outliners to reject hnb's OPML export. It also sports updated menus and a barge-load of documentation updates. There may be a segfault or two still lurking in lesser-used corners of the program. Reports are welcome, patches are cherished.

1.9.19 - 2.0:

  • finish renaming (.hnb to .tines, for example)
  • import/convert .hnb files
  • rewrite/expand the documentation (mostly complete)
  • Planner menu (complete)
  • automated test suite (using libcli)
  • new command: export_branch (export from the selected node instead of the entire tree)
  • new command: insert_above (insert new node above current) (we have a working substitute for now, using key bindings - use Ctrl-B to insert above)
  • new command: sleep (put the process in the background)
  • move tutorial.inc, etc. into /usr/local/share/tines
  • new attributes (mapped to OPML "type" attribute for import/export)

2.0 - 3.0:

  • autoconf
  • code cleanup
  • replace XML code with xmllib
  • UTF-8 friendly
  • use OPML as the default file format, maintaining hnb as a legacy format
  • use XSLT as basis for all export activity

3.0 and beyond: (this is pie in the sky stuff)

  • Add Qt for optional GUI, maintaining console mode
  • (???) Complete rewrite, maybe as an interpreted language (for example, Perl/TK or Python/Qt)
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