Internet Outliner is a computer software product that is an enhancement of the trade mark applicant's other products, Internet Reader (TM application pending SN 78/109828). In addition to providing all of the functionality of Internet Reader, Internet Outliner permits the user to easily create outlines, summaries and categorizations of one or more items of textual material found on the internet or that otherwise exist on his hard disk in HTML format or in the formats of other web-based computer languages. [(Internet Reader is described as follows: A computer software product that permits the user to: a) download and read textual and graphic material that is found on the Internet or read such material that exists on his local computer or local area network, in HTML format or in the formats of other web-based computer languages; b) easily mark and highlight such material in a way that preserves the material and markings for later use; c) easily transform such material into text-based or word processing-based formats, d) transmit the marked or extracted material to other persons via the internet or intranet or portable data storage; e) compress such material for efficient storage; f) encrypt such material for purposes of privacy.; g)) take advantage of pre-assembled Internet Reader Packs for navigating to and reading from websites h) generate user-defined Internet Reader Packs]