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A workspace of panes
Open as many resizable, re-orderable panes as you like and drag rows between them. Floating panes hover over your work and minimise to draggable circles.
Thortiq Outline
Turn a train of thought into a clear plan.
A fast, local-first outliner where notes, tasks, tables, kanbans, drawings and PDFs all live on the outline. Capture at the speed of thought — add structure when you're ready.
Opens the live app in this tab. No install, no account needed to start.
Product launch
Research
Customer interviews
Market notes
Launch plan
Write announcement
Publish documentation
Built for flow
Structure appears as you think.
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Saved sessions & favourites
Save a set of panes focused on specific nodes — each searched and filtered independently — and reopen the whole layout in one click. Like boards, but better.
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Properties & smart tags
Put typed properties on any node. Tags carry properties too, so applying a tag adds the missing fields — instant structure with zero setup.
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Tables, kanbans & databases
Turn a branch into an editable table — children become rows, properties become columns — then group, sort, filter or flip it into a kanban. Simple Markdown tables work too.
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Search nodes
Type a query into a node and matching nodes appear as its children — live. Show the results as an outline, table or kanban with your own grouping and filtering.
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Real task management
The Tasks pane gathers every task into Overdue, Today, Next Seven Days and Future — drag to reschedule, or group by any property. Checklists stay out of the way, and Google and Microsoft 365 calendars plug into your day.
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Canvas & drawings
Lay nodes out on a canvas as mind maps, cards and card groups. Drawing nodes open Excalidraw in a pane and show as thumbnails in the outline.
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PDF annotation
Read PDFs in a pane and highlight the good bits — each highlight becomes a quote in your outline with a link that jumps straight back to the spot in the PDF.
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Habit tracker built in
Define habits with custom frequencies and keep your streaks alive — right next to the plans and tasks they support.
Connected services: sync, document sharing and calendar integration are paid services, currently in closed beta. Join the waitlist from inside the app to get access to sync. Everything local is free.
Coming from Workflowy?
All the speed. None of the “I wish it could…”
Things Workflowy just can't do:
Search nodes
Floating panes
Smart tags
Property databases
Kanbans
Markdown tables
Drawings
Task management
Habit tracker
Mind-map canvas
PDF annotation
Calendar integration
Saved sessions
Plus the small stuff that adds up: click a structure line to collapse a branch, quick-select the expansion level, hover-to-open while dragging, a portal manager in the gutter, numbered lists, rich formatting and code blocks. And it's local-first — offline in your browser, end-to-end encrypted sync, separate documents for work and home.
Availability
In your browser, in seconds.
Nothing to install and no account needed to start. Open the app, type your first line — and when you want your outline on every device, join the sync waitlist from inside the app.
Outline documentation