After looking for a clever way to keep notes in a marginally platform independent way, I found
vimoutliner which adds some interesting features for folding and making todo lists and so on. I noticed that there was a debian package and I thought "cool I can easily check it out". It turned out to be a bit more complicated than I expected and I replicate my steps here for posterity:
apt-get install vim-vimoutliner vim-addon-manager
vim-addons install vimoutliner
If it doesn't seem to work correctly when you open a *.otl file, ensure than your vimrc has
filetype plugin on
The other note, which is in the /usr/share/doc/vim-vimoutliner/README.Debian is that the ,, commands are in fact \ commands.
See :help vo for instructions.
Happy outlining.
