Sift Outliner

Keyboard-first nested lists

Only for Mac

Free · In‑App Purchases

Mac

Sift is a calm, keyboard-first outliner for organizing ideas and tasks in a state of flow. Everything is a list inside a list — zoom into any item to focus, navigate entirely from the keyboard, and let everything else fall quiet. Infinitely nested lists, a clean three-column view, status and color tags, search across every level with breadcrumb trails, dark mode, and a distraction-free monotasking view. Fully offline — your notes stay on your Mac. Free for up to 100 items; unlock Sift Pro once for unlimited.

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Sift 1.2 — onboarding, mouse multi-select, and a sharper selection style. What's new since 1.1 • Welcome Tour: a short, hands-on guide walks you through every shortcut on first launch. Bring it back any time from the Help menu without touching your existing notes. • Refined selection style: the focused row now paints a clean full-width grey bar with white text and crisp markers — much easier to spot at a glance. • Mouse multi-select: ⇧Click and ⌘Click extend the selection to a row from where you already were. • ⌘E exports just the currently focused list as plain text — perfect for sharing one section. • Help menu: Visit Website, Send Feedback, and Privacy Policy are now a click away. • Inline hints in empty columns point you at search, filter, and the cheat sheet — so the shortcuts are discoverable, not buried. • Items with children render slightly bolder, giving long outlines a document-like rhythm of headings vs. paragraphs. • Colour names (your "Urgent", "Reading", and friends) now travel inside JSON backups — they come along when you move to another Mac. • Multi-select range no longer collapses when you close the filter — close it and your selection stays intact. Plus a handful of small fixes across scrolling, selection, and keyboard handling.

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    Seller
    • Juan Manuel Ferrera Diaz
    Size
    • 2.4 MB
    Category
    • Productivity
    Compatibility
    Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    Languages
    • English
    Age Rating
    4+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    Copyright
    • © 2026 Juan Manuel Ferrera Diaz