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Hyperbole Koutliner: The Best Autonumbered, Hyperlinking Outliner for Emacs

Bob Weiner - Pronunciation: Wine-urr, https://gnu.org/s/hyperbole/man/hyperbole.html#Koutliner, rsw@gnu.org

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Format: 20-min talk ; Q&A: BigBlueButton conference room https://media.emacsconf.org/2026/current/bbb-koutliner.html Etherpad: https://pad.emacsconf.org/2026-koutliner
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Description

The Koutliner (pronounced Kay-outliner) is a powerful, easy-to-use multi-level autonumbered outliner for producing structured documents in Emacs.

Learn how to use the Koutliner for critical outlines that must have unique, legal-style autonumbering for each section, simple cross-references, automatic permanent hyperlink anchors and outline view control via single alpha characters.

Learn when to use the Koutliner and when to use Org mode for outlining.

The Koutliner is just one part of the extensive Hyperbole package designed to handle many of your everyday information management and hyperlinking needs. See: https://gnu.org/s/hyperbole/man/hyperbole.html.

About the speaker:

Bob Weiner is a software developer who designs powerful, flexible easy-to-use systems that work out of the box with few dependencies.

He developed the the Koutliner as part of the Hyperbole package prior to the advent of Org mode, when he needed an Emacs-based outliner with legal-styled numbering. Let's see how it differs from Org mode and how it can help you in rapidly structuring thoughts or notes.

Questions or comments? Please e-mail rsw@gnu.org

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