So, I make things that I need and share them every now and again. This is one that I’ve shared. The idea for Quick Outliner arose from a conversation with a friend about the extent to which law school could be automated. Naturally, the most tedious parts arose first and the idea of automated outline creation was born. Sites like outlinedepot.com notwithstanding, finding an outline for some of the more esoteric classes like Election Law, for example, are not trivial matters. What is easy, however, is compiling a list of citations for the cases that one has read in class.
Using the citation list as a jumping off point, I began to think about ways to scrape (I hate that word, by the way) Lexis for their beautiful case summaries. After a few hours considering using YML, and dropping the idea because it just seemed too complex, I decided that building a Google Chrome extension would be the quickest and easiest idea.
