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The Leonine World
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**Leonine** refers to Leo's unique way of organizing data and programs. This has many implications:

**Browsing**: Leo remembers your outline organization. Class browsers don't. Doh!

**The big picture**: Outline nodes hide messy details, revealing the big picture *at all times*.

**Programming**: Leo outlines naturally organize programs into modules, classes and functions. Leonine sources are their own design document. How you organize outlines is a choice in a new design space.

**User-defined types**: Headlines naturally describe a node's contents: **headlines naturally define types**. Leo's core supports types such as @button, @rst, @url, etc. Plugins define @bookmark, @graph, @html and @task types. Scripts can easily define other types.

.. _`clone-find`: https://leo-editor.github.io/leo-editor/commands.html#id1

**Work flow**: The `clone-find`_ commands gather all match a pattern under a single node. No need to keep searching for them. You can change the clones, and the original nodes change as well. This is a great way to fix bugs or to write books.

**Databases**: Leo's clones create new opportunities for scriptable databases. In my brother Speed's outlines, suboutlines *are* SQL queries!