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MORE was positioned as: Intelligent Idea Processing; Desktop Publishing Power; Desktop Productivity Power; Macintosh Power. Technically, it was described as an outline processor application that was created for the Macintosh in 1986 by Dave Winer and others that was not ported to any other platforms. An earlier outliner, ThinkTank, was developed for Apple II, Apple III, PC and then ported by Peter Winer to the Macintosh.

MORE was the result of combining three planned products into one expanding around the outliner. In MORE, the outlines could be formatted with different layouts, colors, and shapes. Outline "nodes" could include pictures and graphics.

The company that made these products, Living Videotext, merged with Symantec in July 1987.

In 1987, MORE had evolved into a tool that was used to create presentations, a category that ultimately would be dominated by PowerPoint when Microsoft chose to pass up on acquiring Living Videotext.

Functions included:

Appending notes, comments, rough drafts of sentences and paragraphs under some topics
Assembling various low-level topics and creating a new topic to group them under
Deleting duplicate topics
Demoting a topic to become a subtopic under some other topic
Disassembling a grouping that does not work, parceling its subtopics out among various other topics
Dividing one topic into its component subtopics
Dragging to rearrange the order of topics
Making a hierarchical list of topics
Merging related topics
Promoting a subtopic to the level of a topic

Acta was a software program for creating outlines. It was originally developed for the Apple Macintosh and released in 1986. Acta started as a Desk Accessory, presumably to be used in conjunction with a Word Processor. In 1987 Version 1.3 was bundled with MORE.

Platform: Apple Macintosh 512Kb RAM, Macintosh Plus, Macintosh X/L external Disk 3.5 or Hard Disk

OS: Mac OS Classic

Application Software (AS:) Idea Processing

Version: 1.1c

Platform :	Apple Mac Compact
Format :	Disk 3.5
Publisher :	Living Videotext
Authors :	Dave Winer, Peter Winer, Doug Baron, Robert Bierman
Date :	1987
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