Outlines are IA by Christopher Butler:

The text-outline as an information architecture tool is useful when evaluating the effectiveness of an existing visual design. Whenever I look at a page or screen, the first thing I do is scan it to understand what kind of information it contains and how that information is arranged.

I’ll plug all sorts of things into Workflowy (my outliner of choice) to see the raw structure. And then drag the bullets around to remix and re-organize.

May 16, 2023 · IA · text · work


Most of my friends still had mothers but the fathers were endangered, then extinct.
“Jim Brown, born ineligible to play for the Redskins, integrated their end zone three times yesterday.