Strata is a Minimal Native Outliner for MacOS
Outliners are the superior tool for thought and I wanted a native option for MacOS.
Strata is a new outliner app for MacOS that I’ve built. It’s completely native and only 2.5 MB. You can get it here.
I wrote about outliners extensively in the past. An outliner is a text editor that organizes information in hierarchical nodes. You might have seen one if you ever used Workflowy, Dynalist, OmniOutliner, or Roam Research.
Outliner is a superior tool for thought. I find them most useful when I have to organize a lot of information or draft a complex article without a clear idea of where I’ll end up.
With Strata, I built the tool that I’ve always wanted for myself. Your document is basically a series of nested bullet points, and you can do a lot of things with them.
- Each bullet point (or node) is a task you can complete
- You can collapse nodes and all of their descendants
- You can easily move them around
- Or you can focus on a specific node and hide all others
The best part about outliners is that they’re extremely flexible. You can use Strata for note-taking, journaling, task management, writing, or all of these things combined. It’s malleable. Most closely, it resembles Workflowy, but works locally and it’s blazing fast.
If you want to try it, you can download the latest release from my GitHub here. If you used it, let me know what you think. What did you like? What can be improved? What features would you like to have?
