as many topics as desired. This eliminates the need to have separate documents, as outlines easily include other outlines just by adding to the tree. The main difference between a hand-written outline and a digital one, is that the former is usually limited to a summary or blueprint of a planned document, while the latter may easily include all of the content of the entire document and many more. In other words, as a hand-written work an outline is a writing tool, but on a computer, it is a general purpose format supported by a robust development and display medium capable of handling knowledge from its creation to its end use. Outliners may be used in content creation instead of general word processors for capturing, organizing, editing, and displaying knowledge or general textual information. Outliners are ideal for managing lists, organizing facts and ideas, and for writing computer programs. They are also used for goal and task management (including personal information management and project management), and for writing books and movie scripts. The graphical counterpart to outliners are mind mappers. See also Abstract (summary) Concept map Hierarchy Mind map Outline of knowledge Outliner (software used to create outlines) Syllabus eSyllabus Topic Map Tree structure Notes References Mary Ellen Guffey, "Organizing and Writing Business Messages," Business Communication: Process and Product, p. 160–161. "Numbers: Lists and Outlines," Manual for Writers and Editors (Merriam-Webster, Incorporated: 1998), p. 103. White, Basil (1996) Developing Products and Their Rhetoric from a Single Hierarchical Model, 1996 Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Society for Technical Communication, 43, 223–224. "Report writing", Britannica Student Encyclopedia, Encyclopædia Britannica Online (Accessed January 5, 2006) William E. Coles, Jr. "Outline", World Book Online (Accessed January 5, 2006) Ted Goranson's About this Particular Outliner 'Outlining and Styles' Jon Franklin "Writing for Story", Penguin 1994. Cinematic techniques Writing Documents Trees (data structures)