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DESCRIPTION
Opal is an outliner. It lets you organize just about anything - ideas, reports, lists, notes, projects, graphics - as an outline. It stands out for its uncluttered, fluid interface. But Opal includes features not found in other organizers:
  • Shrink a topic to a single line
  • Alphabetic and numeric sorting
  • Magnify on-screen text
  • Word count
  • Focus on part of the outline
  • Multiple selection
  • Link to other documents
  • Just create notes - no need to name them
  • Open Acta outlines
  • Spotlight search
  • Topic filtering via toolbar Search field
  • Smart checkboxes automatically track completion
  • Open or save OPML outlines
  • 'Smart quotes'
  • Complete, self-contained documentation
  • Japanese localization
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.2:
  • Detect Links Automatically is now in the Preferences dialog.
  • Added “Check Grammar With Spelling.”
  • Import RTF.
  • Support “magnify” trackpad gesture on MacBook Air or recent MacBook Pro.
  • Changed Copy Topic Without Family to Copy Special. This now asks how many levels to copy (1 is the old behavior).
  • Fixes minor bugs
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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SCREENSHOT

Developer:A Sharp, LLC
Downloads:10,079
  - Version d/l:385
Business:Applications
License:Shareware
Date:05 May 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$32.00
RATING
*****
Opal User Reviews (13 posts)Write A Review
May 5 2008

BLLOYD  Whatever this 1.2 download is, it's corrupted.

It downloads a .bz2 compressed file, and if you extract that you get a .bz2.cpgz file. If you extract that, you get a .bz2 file again.

The only way I can get it to extract is to use BetterZip and extra the package, as the default BOMArchiveHelper app won't do it.

So you get an Opal 1.2 DMG file, which when double clicked notes "no mountable file systems."

FAIL.

This isn't an issue with MacUpdate per se, as the downloads from the developer site (and their mirror) exhibit similar behavior.

Perhaps they should try a better packaging mechanism next time. I've used .bz2 archives before and they've worked (LaunchBar is compressed this way), though frankly straight .dmg files are nicer, and they can compress as well. Maybe not *quite* as well as .bz2, but 2.6 MB versus 5 MB for a download these days is pretty trivial.  (Version 1.2)

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Feb 11 2008
*****

FUNJOY  Basic outlining par excellence.  (Version 1.1.1)

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Jan 4 2007
*****

NYDHOGG  Except now it's called Opal. The classic early Macintosh outliner ACTA has been brought up to date without adding the bloat found in other outliners, but still adding a great new search feature and multiple topic selection, a very handy feature.

The property of selecting a topic with a single click and opening it with a double click (carried over from ACTA) is a particularly big winner - I can't stand outliners that open a topic with a single click - what, do these people never reorganize their outlines?!

It opens all my old ACTA outlines and runs as a Universal App providing a great bridge to the latest Macs.

Kudos to David Dunham and A-Sharp - Web Heroes in my book!

Jim

PS: I was a beta tester, but I have no financial interest in the product.  (Version 1.0.6)

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Nov 15 2006

SANDYC  Can't mount the 1.0.2 disk image under 10.4.8 using either the OS or Toast to mount it.  (Version 1.0.2)

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