I think the use case using Kinopio as an outliner is worth exploring. Perhaps it is niche, but it has potential to unlock interop with other systems. Outliners are hot right now. Logseq, Remnote, Roam, Dave Winer’s latest (Drummer), lots of others. Not that they’re new either. People love to think in outlines. (I used Logseq to take lecture notes this semester and appreciated the extra structure vs Kinopio) Also, mind mapping seems to be a common way that people find Kinopio (at least from my informal surveys when people enter the chat). And mind maps are a sort of outline.
A lot of these tools support OPML, which allows for interop.
- https://twitter.com/davewiner/status/1469335468718403593
- https://brettterpstra.com/2014/09/18/how-i-mind-map/
- https://www.macworld.com/article/214271/from_brainstorm_to_outline_why_i_use_opml.html
Kinopio is super flexible and not as structured as an outline, but maybe if there are ways to make it kind work, that might be valuable to bring more people in. It wouldn’t be too hard to import from OPML since you can express hierarchy with positioning and connections (like we’re talking about here). What if there were a way to structure things so you could export?
Just some thoughts, maybe this should be spun into a new thread. Thanks for reading 