Provide visual and text outliners in content
This feature involves an inbuilt or web-based outliner tool. This may be implemented in a number of different ways – as a built-in tool in the operating system, or as a web-based outline service.
This feature enables the user to outline the text that they wish to convey in visual or textual form, acting like a scratch paper to jot down all their thoughts before actually having to write it.
Discussion by Disabilities
This feature allows users with Cognitive, Language and Learning Disabilities to collect their thoughts and collate them in a single place. These tools are also called brainstorming tools, they can be used for memory retention purposes.
Existing Products
Please note that these products are not necessarily endorsed by RtF, but represent the range of available options.
- Magical Pad(link is external)- MagicalPad.com
- Scrivener(link is external)- Literature and Latte Ltd.
- Omni Outliner(link is external)- Omni Group
- Outline for Mac and iPad(link is external)- Gorillized Corporation
- Smartsheet(link is external)- Smartsheet, Inc.
- Little Outliner 2(link is external)
- Outline Edit for Mac(link is external)- Robin Schnaidt
- UV Outliner(link is external)- Fedir Nepviyoda
- Evernote Corporation(link is external)
- Google Docs(link is external)
- Microsoft One Note(link is external)- Microsoft Corporation
- DocsPlus(link is external)- CrickSoftware
Related Research and Papers
- Assistive and instructional technology for college students with disabilities: A national snapshot of postsecondary service providers(link is external)- Craig A. Michaels, Fran Pollock Prezant, Stephen M. Morabito (2001)
- How computers change the writing process for people with learning disabilities(link is external)- Richard Wanderman
- Support services for college students with learning disabilities(link is external)- Sunday O. Obi
- Evaluating Software: What Thoreau Said to the Designer(link is external)- Paul Taylor
- What use are the new technologies?(link is external)- Chris Abbott
- New Technology, Writing And Learning(link is external)- James Hartley, Päivi Tynjälä