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# Hyperbole Koutliner: The Best Autonumbered, Hyperlinking Outliner for Emacs
Bob Weiner - Pronunciation: Wine-urr, <https://gnu.org/s/hyperbole/man/hyperbole.html#Koutliner>, <mailto:rsw@gnu.org>

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The Koutliner (pronounced Kay-outliner) is a powerful, easy-to-use
multi-level autonumbered outliner for producing structured documents
in Emacs.

Learn how to use the Koutliner for critical outlines that must have
unique, legal-style autonumbering for each section, simple
cross-references, automatic permanent hyperlink anchors and outline
view control via single alpha characters.

Learn when to use the Koutliner and when to use Org mode for outlining.

The Koutliner is just one part of the extensive Hyperbole package
designed to handle many of your everyday information management and
hyperlinking needs.  See: <https://gnu.org/s/hyperbole/man/hyperbole.html>.

About the speaker:

Bob Weiner is a software developer who designs powerful, flexible
easy-to-use systems that work out of the box with few dependencies.

He developed the the Koutliner as part of the Hyperbole package prior to
the advent of Org mode, when he needed an Emacs-based outliner with
legal-styled numbering.  Let's see how it differs from Org mode and
how it can help you in rapidly structuring thoughts or notes.



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