Using LooseStitch is extremely easy. You start out your outlline by adding rows to it. Jot down anything relevant that crosses your mind. You can rearrange and structure your thoughts later. Or delete them if you must.

Once you have your basic points in front of you, start reordering them. Move a point up if it is more important or needs to get addressed earlier. Move it down if it can wait.

So far, your notes won't look any different from a good old Todo list. But not to worry. You will tap into the real power of an outliner when you start grouping points to form a heirarchy of ideas.

To group points together, insert a row before the first point of a group. Simply add a row anywhere in the outline and move it in place. This new row will act as a heading for the points below it, so give it a meaningful title.

Once the heading row is created, click on every row that is logically part of this heading and indent it. The dot beside a heading row will become a disclosure triangle that you can use to expand or collapse the group.

Think of this group as a list within a list. Of course, nothing prevents you from creating lists, within lists, within lists...
There, that's an outline. Now you know. Go watch the Getting Started with LooseStitch video.

LooseStitch even lets you colour your rows and mark off items as completed. In fact there is a whole lot more you can do with LooseStitch.

But enough said for now. You must be really itching to create your own outline. We won't hold you back.

Create

• Add, Delete Rows
• Indent, Outdent Rows
• Move up, Move down
• Expand, Collapse, Expand All, Collapse All
• Colour rows using one of 4 colours. Use this feature to either assign priorities to rows or if you are working with others, let each one pick a colour.
• Mark row items as completed
• Import from OmniOutliner via industry-standard OPML file format.
• Leave comments for others in your team to see.

Invite

• Send email to friends or clients to collaborate with you on your outline.
• Keep track of who has already received an invitation to join.
• People you invite only require a password to access your outline.
• Any changes to the outline are stored immediately on our server. There is no need to make a separate File Save operation.

Share

• Export your outline for use with other applications.
• We currently support exporting to Text, OPML and HTML.
• Work seamlessly with OmniOutliner.
• Copy one single line of code into your blog or website and you can publish your outline right where you want it.
• Published outlines always use your latest document, so any changes you make will be reflected on your site.

Settings

• Change Title of outline
• Change outline password.
• An email is sent automatically to others you have invited.
• Assign a permalink to your outline to give it an easy to remember URL.
• Enter your name anywhere in LooseStitch and it will remember who you are the next time you visit our site.
• If you are in a different timezone from people you work with, tell LooseStitch where you are and it will adjust date and time displays accordingly.