Outliner: Scroll 4+

Scroll’s a simple, straightforward & ultra-helpful tool for keeping notes & listing & developing ideas.

If you upgrade (at £4-99 for iPhone, Mac & iPad, it surely has to be one of the best value upgrades out there!), you get not only syncing & unlimited notes, but a great choice of colours, too!

The first thing I did with it was to list all the things I wanted from a novel template for the Scrivener writing app, then re-order them, expand on them & add a lot more stuff as well, & within 20 minutes I had a useable design for it. That might not sound like much, but I’ve spent years trying! And believe me, it makes my work much easier.

Installation tip: I couldn’t immediately get syncing to work, but when I deleted & reinstalled the iPhone version it worked fine.

I’d unhesitatingly recommend Scroll to anyone who wants to list information & develop their ideas. It has tags & gives reminders, too, so if you use David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” or any similar kind of methodology you’ll find Scroll an invaluable companion.

Do give it a try! I’m sure you won’t regret it 😊

As an author, I use Scroll for planning my novels. It’s perfect for outlining, and allows me to add a lot of detail to my notes in a precise order and to every single book individually. I like the design and I can keep all my notes in one place categorised under the name of the novel instead of in a million different apps and places.

For people who have a lot of stuff going on, this app is incredible. If you like your folder structure in columns, this is the notes version of that.

I REALLY hope the developer continues this to make it full featured, so we can colour notes and their descendants, reduce the (currently large) note size for those with lots who don’t want to scroll for miles, export completed for those who have to report on their work, export notes to PDFs in well laid out formats, perhaps export a note to a mind-map even?

The developer is on to something brilliantly logical missed by other note taking apps and it has huge potential.