>
> ​Yes, so it has one level of numbering rather than the much more difficult
> and useful hierarchical numbering that the Koutliner has.  Every Koutline
> node automatically has both a relative and a permanent identifier so you
> can refer to it uniquely from anywhere (together with its filename).
>
Yes, you're probably right that Koutliner has better indexing facilites
compard to org-mode where resolving to a ndoe is done via string matching (
a rather ugly regex, actually ).

>
>
>> ​Org has very useful facilities there.  I would say that Koutliner's
> properties are much more lisp-like and separate from the visible buffer
> text​, so you maintain a cleaner view of what you are working on, though I
> understand the properties can be collapsed in Org-mode.
>

But org-mode also has much more generic notion of a node. It understands
source blocks, example blocks, result blocks, headlines etc. Obviously I
have way less experience with Koutliner but it seems to understand only
chunks of text.


>
> ​How do you reference a headline without including much of its text?
> Adding names with special syntax again visually litters the buffer.
> Koutlines have built-in link anchors​
>
> ​with no extra effort.
>
See above, the special syntax is due to org's more flexible notion of a
node.


>
> ​If I have 100 nodes in a list, imagine how long it would take to create
> all the named references and hyperlinks in Org-mode versus pointing and
> clicking to generate the links only in the Koutliner.
>
Without programming, yes, that would be a pain. Furthermore org does not
update internal links when a subtree is re-parented etc. Hopefully
Koutliner is better in this regard.


>
> ​Hyperbole is certainly good for embedding explicit and implicit links
> within comments of programming languages and also giving you implicit links
> within the code.
>

org-babel supports literate programming in the more traditional form,
chunks of code interspersed into a document rather than vice versa.
Although implicit links from comment is a very nice feature.

I'm excited about the future of Hyperbole. I see a lot of potential with
third-party custom button packages, language specific implicit links,
perhaps even leveraging Koutliner for literate programming so I hope that a
community builds up around it. Org-mode was just an outliner until people
grabbed it and ran with it.

-deech

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