Outline gives Google Docs™ the table of contents it should have had: a live panel of every heading in your document, always one click away from any section.

FREE, AND STAYING FREE

• See the whole structure at a glance — every heading, indented by level, in one panel.
• Jump anywhere with one click. The cursor moves to that heading; no scrolling, no scrollbar hunting.
• Works with document tabs. If your document uses tabs, each tab's headings are grouped under its name and clicking an entry switches to the right tab.

That is the job, and it does not expire, meter or nag. If a Pro licence ever lapses, everything above keeps working exactly as it does today.

PRO — $29 per year, or $69 once

• Word count per section. Every heading shows how much text sits beneath it, so you can spot the section that quietly grew to three times the size of the others. The built-in outline does not show this.
• Search the outline. Type a few letters and only matching headings remain — it earns its keep once a document passes a few dozen sections.
• Export the outline — copy it as text, or insert it into the document itself as a real table of contents, with each line linked to its section wherever Google Docs™ allows a link. Because Outline only ever touches the document you have open, this needs no extra permission.
• One licence, every tool. The same key unlocks Pro in every add-on we publish, including the ones that do not exist yet. Buy once, and the suite grows around you.

BUILT TO KEEP WORKING

Add-ons in this category have a habit of quietly breaking and staying broken. This one is written defensively: if something goes wrong, it tells you what and suggests what to do, instead of failing silently. If you hit a problem, write to us — a person answers, and the support page lists a real address.

ONE PERMISSION, AND NOTHING LEAVES GOOGLE

Outline asks for exactly one permission: access to the document you currently have open. Not your other documents. Not your Google Drive™. Nothing in Gmail™, Google Calendar™ or your contacts.

It runs entirely inside Google Apps Script™. There is no server of ours, no database, no analytics and no tracking. Your headings are read into memory to draw the panel and discarded when you close it. Nothing is transmitted to us, because there is nowhere for it to be transmitted to.

HOW TO USE IT

1. Install, then open any Google Docs™ document.
2. Open Outline from the side panel on the right.
3. Style your section titles as headings (Format → Paragraph styles → Heading 1/2/3) — the outline is built from those.
4. Click any entry to jump there. Press Refresh after you add new headings.

Questions, bugs and feature requests: gheorghe.beschea@overheat.agency — a person answers.

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