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What is Outline?

Outline is a knowledge base, wiki, and networked documentation for growing teams. The product has been designed from the ground up to be fast and intuitive to use. Outline's hierarchy, backlinks and robust search functionality make it easy to find documents.

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Outline is a knowledge base, wiki, and networked documentation for growing teams. The product has been designed from the ground up to be fast and intuitive to use. Outline's hierarchy, backlinks and robust search functionality make it easy to find documents.


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Outline
Year Founded
2018
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San Francisco, California
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2,167 Twitter followers
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DEERGASI V.
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DEERGASI V.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"""Simple Technique for Thought Organisation """
I like that there will be a link for each change the post or website has undergone when it truly functions. As a tool for our internal knowledge ba...
Maksym M.
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Maksym M.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Excelent tool for internal team documentation and processes"
Interface, speed, quality, good API. rich markdown, many integrations
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Maksym M.
MM
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Outline?

Interface, speed, quality, good API. rich markdown, many integrations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Outline?

Not so easy to run it locally for development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Outline solving and how is that benefiting you?

We generate a lot of documents every day automatically via API based on JIRA data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simran G.
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Content writer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Outline?

I liked the Markdown Editing feature provided by Outline, as it allowed me to format text, create headings, and incorporate images and links without the need for complex formatting options. This made it easy for me to focus on content creation and ensure document consistency. Also, it is effortless to integrate it with other popular tools, like Google Drive, Dropbox, and GitHub, thus making it a precious tool for my team as we were looking to streamline our document workflows and maintain organised documentation, something that we had been looking for for a very long time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Outline?

Although Outline requires very few improvements, I felt it lacked some advanced formatting options available in traditional word processors. Such as advanced tables or custom styles options available in Outline to be limited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Outline solving and how is that benefiting you?

Outline solves the problem of organizing and collaborating on documents effectively, making it easier for me to structure information, work collaboratively in real-time, and find relevant documents quickly. This benefits me by saving time, improving teamwork, and enhancing the overall efficiency of document management and knowledge sharing within my team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hariharan R.
HR
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Outline?

The UI is very light and intuitive. It is straightforward to create folders and files. We, as a team, found it very easy to create a collection and collate the required documents in outline and found it very easy to access as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Outline?

One issue I felt concerning is while adding Google docs, sheets link in a document, the response is slow, and the preview snapshot of the link is too large. I also felt there could be image editing features; I wanted to crop an image post addition into a document, which I could not do straightforwardly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Outline solving and how is that benefiting you?

We can easily document and share my work within and across teams. I can also easily view my fellow team members' work and comment on it without asking them for the documents every time. This helps us in speeding up the work and introspect easily. Overall, outline is helping a lot in keeping up the pace of our work execution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kanna V.
KV
SDET
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Outline?

The outline is a user-friendly interface to enhance productivity. It helps me in staying organised and manage information effectively. As a normal user, I find Outline more efficient than Microsoft Word as we can create structured silhouettes with nested topics and subtopics, making it effortless to break down complex concepts into sections, giving me more focus on the tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Outline?

To give the users the best experience while using the tool, they can focus on a few things, as cost structure can be a bit lesser for those with basic outlining needs, and improve the performance by fixing the stability issues. The mobile app version is not as efficient and best as the desktop version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Outline solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can search the topics with standard search in the collection even though there are 1000s of subjects present in the outline; with this powerful search function and intuitive navigation features, Outline makes it effortless for users to find specific information within the outline. Our organisation uses Outline, which makes it ideal for team projects. I can share the strategies with others, allowing collaboration, editing and review. This gives efficient teamwork and enhances productivity. Able to integrate with Google Drive enables users to save directly to the cloud, improving data accessibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kaushik M.
KM
Frontend Team Lead | UI/UX Designer | Freelancer
Information Technology and Services
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Outline?

We & personally I am using Outline to make documention & discussion of our project which is a NGO organization. It is very easy to use & user friendly flow to create step by step production process of your projects. Thank you Outline!!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Outline?

Nothing to dislike about Outline software. But yeah I just want that documents supports to add media in that. So we can collabrate nicely. On other hand every thing is perfact. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Outline solving and how is that benefiting you?

I should recommend many users to use Outline. Just because this is the best platform to manage documents & notes about you projects. And collabrate that documents with your team. I most like the comment feature, Just because Everyone from our team can get a place to forwards their ideas for project. Thank you Outline!!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hemang T.
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Senior Database Administrator
Computer Software
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Outline?

Using Outline, we can create knowledge base documents for co-teammates. We can collaborate live with comments on the documents. Overall, the Outline experience is effortless; the Document mentions the topic and starts writing like a notepad. And it supports key shortcuts to edit our document. Support Dark mode. We can share the permission with our co-workers, who can edit the same document. It provides the archive and trash feature also. Even we can integrate it with Slack for quick sharing the documents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Outline?

So far, I couldn't find any thing bad about the OUtline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Outline solving and how is that benefiting you?

The outline is solving our Documentation problem, where in industries, we have some challenges, and once we solve we have to do the documentation and keep it somewhere where everyone can access that later on to whom its relates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

pratik j.
PJ
Student
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Outline?

The easy and user-friendly tool is used to organize your ideas so that you can showcase or use them after some duration, and it is used to present them clearly with many more attractive features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Outline?

It is new in the market with no other tough competitors so what the testing and multiple lacking sides are not getting via users as the product is not much popular Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Outline solving and how is that benefiting you?

It solves the problems like ordering and structuring the data. There are more attractive documentation features collaborated with ai which suggests a lot of new paths to manage and gives better solution as compare to my ideas as well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
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What do you like best about Outline?

What I loved best is that I've been using Outline for my team for the past few months, and found it to be a great way to store & share knowledge, & it's been really helpful for us to collaborate on projects & be on the same page. I love it's easy to use interface, powerful search function, collaborative features & integration capabilities with other tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Outline?

I thought a lot, but couldn't really come up with something negative or even a suggestion for improvement! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Outline solving and how is that benefiting you?

Previously our team's knowledge was siloed in different people's heads or in different documents, making it difficult to find the information we needed when we needed it. Outline has helped us centralize our knowledge in one place, so everyone can easily access it now.

We also used to often receive a lot of information from different sources, & it got difficult to keep track of it all. Outline has helped us organize our information better.

All this has made our overall organizing, retrieving & collaboration really seamless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
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What do you like best about Outline?

Integrates with Slack - some people may like this or not like this aspect depnding on your Slack outlook. Our team already uses Slack so integration was easy and I liked that aspect of it. The user interface of Outline is beautiful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Outline?

Difficult to install - has too many requirements. Installation list is long - sign up for Slack, install many prerequisites, fill out keys, etc. Would also be nice to have Docker support! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Outline solving and how is that benefiting you?

Needed a Wiki and Knowledge Base - Outline fulfilled that need. It benefits us by providing a beautiful, intuitive end-user experience for entering knowedge base articles and finding resources on the internal Wiki. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Keerthi Kumar S.
KS
SDET
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Outline?

The best thing about Outline is that it allows everyone to see the updates which others are doing in live mode. This feature helps in taking the notes/documents which are upto date. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Outline?

There is nothing much to dislike about outline, it is a great tool to store and share notes/documents with the internal team, but one thing which might help users is the option to select the theme for the application like a light/dark mode setting and more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Outline solving and how is that benefiting you?

Outline basically helps in maintaining a common base to store and share the up to date notes/documents about the project with the team. It helps the team to be updated with the work that others have been doing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.