Hi,
While I have neither used VimOutliner, nor am I a professional book
writer, I usually do outline my texts before starting the actual
writing. I use the mind-mapping tool FreeMind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/
) to do the outlining, which supports links, keyboard navigation,
folding/unfolding and so on. I then convert the FreeMind mindmap to
LaTeX using a (slightly adopted) Ruby script (supposed to be available
at http://www.duminil.info/doku.php?id=freemindtolatex, but currently
down) and import the resulting LaTeX document into LyX.
Daniel
