SmartOutline is a unique, professional productivity tool that allows you to organize, secure, collaborate and work with information in new and innovative ways. SmartOutline operates from a tree-like or Explorer style interface. While working with a SmartOutline document, you are able to work with your information in a flexible, organized environment. After adding information to your outline, you can save it to an ".OUT" outline document format. From there, export to many popular office file formats and share with others. You can write notes, add calendar events, reference articles or even annotate any web page using shapes, RSS news management, clip art and text highlighting tools. SmartOutline is a open framework that interpolates various applications that import, export, automate to create a tailored experience that is rich and ready for the future. It also has many new features that allow you to use the internet web pages for data storage and mark-ups. SmartOutline easily allows you to secure individual items on your outline or the entire outline itself. SmartOutline utilizes a smart file storage, recognized by a '.out' extension, format similar to your everyday office document. Normally applications of this type, Personal Information Managers (PIM), store your information in centralized databases. This works great, until you want to travel or send your information to someone else. We wanted your data to be portable and flexible. Because your information is stored in a neat, compact file format, it may be emailed, shared with someone else on the internet, archived and easily managed. This means you can outline many different types of mixed information, save your file for that session and open another file for different task session. You can even work with multiple outlines at the same time and drag & drop information between them. With SmartOutline, notes and calendars doesn't even begin to scratch the surface.