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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/11142
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Okay, there are like a billion outliners out there but I'm not sure if there is one that does what I want. Maybe you can help.

- I want to write chunks of text **without headline, numbering, bullets**. Just text like in a text editor, one sentence/paragraph/fragment after another.
- One chunk of text should appear immediately below the other. Also just like text in a text editor window.
- I want to be able to create **columns of annotations** that represent the story throughlines, e.g. one column for the protagonist's outer quest, one column for his inner development, one for the antagonist, one for the romance, and so on. 
- I want to be able to drag each row of outline+annoations to anywhere else in the document, or copy/paste it.
- I want to be able to copy **only the outline text** without annotations and paste it into a separate text document so you can read, print or mail it around.
- It would be perfect but I guess no software has this feature if I could draw arrows from any part of the document to any other.

Here is what the working area should look like. Done in Excel, which does what I want, but which I hate because it is so visually unappealing and constantly reminds me that I'm writing text into a software that was made to deal with data.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4D9HS.png)

Original score: 3