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EDITOR NOTES
This is a beta release. See Related Links for the latest stable release.
DESCRIPTION
OmniOutliner is a flexible program for creating, collecting, and organizing information. Give your creativity a kick start by using an application that's actually designed to help you think. It's like having an extra brain - one that doesn't keep losing the car keys.
You can use OmniOutliner's document structure to create hierarchies of main headings and subpoints that can be expanded and collapsed, which are immensely useful when it comes to brainstorming new ideas, drilling out specifics, and lining up steps needed to get everything done. But you aren't limited to outlines - you've got multiple columns, smart checkboxes, customizable popup lists, and an Über-innovative styles system at your disposal.
Use OmniOutliner to draft to-do lists, create agendas, manage tasks, track expenses, take notes, plan events, write screenplays...and just about anything else you can think of.
It's a smarter way to write, a more productive way to stay organized. Whatever your project, OmniOutliner has the tools you need to get the job done.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 3.9.4 beta 1:
Bugs
- All Automator actions should now work correctly under every supported OS.
Other
- The help files are now updated for every localization.
- Due to the issues with Automator actions in the past couple releases, OmniOutliner is now being built on 10.6. No issues are expected due to this change, but any and all testing is greatly appreciated.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later.
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| OmniOutliner User Reviews (37 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jul 18 2007 |
SAGGIS This program is utterly fantastic, perfect for use in lectures, best program to come with my Macbook Pro. This with OmniGraffle make killer programs. | |
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| Sep 29 2009 |
KLAGRECA Love OO, but...no PDF export? I know there's the print to PDF option, but shouldn't there be a PDF export option, similar to the functionality of Apple Pages, Open Office?
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| Nov 18 2009 |
DONMONTALVO Print > Print To PDF
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 | Jan 2 2009 |
A.KRZYZAK Fantastic program. Great flexibility for many purposes.
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| Apr 19 2006 |
GERBER Great little outliner. Eminently Applescriptable, file attachable, and generally extensible. There may be better pure outliners, but this is a wonderful general brainstorming and stuff-writing-storing program. It's also lickably OmniSoftware. Mmmm! New beta works great. No problems.
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| Nov 22 2005 |
BARGEPOLE Elegant, stable, easy on the eye, great implementation of styles, ultra-scriptable, plays nice with Quicksilver and seems to have become an ubergeek fave. BUT... I do have to agree with previous posters, the absence of even the most primitive form of linking (the ideal would be word-to-word, but even cell-to-cell would be something) is pretty much incomprehensible. NoteTaker, Hog Bay, Tinderbox, TAO, NoteBook et al. can all do it with various degrees of sophistication, and it's useful. Very. So, Omni guys: how about it?
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| Jun 12 2005 |
SAMB Sorry, this is not state of the art! Look at the price and compare with others. Omni Outliner "professional" can't even link between items. Looks pretty, that's all. Software from yesterday.
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| May 16 2005 |
GREG While I own licenses to both OmniOutliner and Tao, I use Tao for this reason: Tao works properly with SpellCatcher X, OmniOutliner 3.0 does not. The same applies to Grammarian X and other programs. This is because Tao conforms to Apples prescribed input methods. OmniOutliner 3.0 does not.
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| Dec 13 2004 |
CRAIG Folks, Grow Up! OO2 and OO3 are both very well developed programs.
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| Dec 14 2004 |
ANONYMOUS I think the primary problem is that a lot of us did in fact grow up, and we found that the OO software line really did not. It added tangent features, while neglecting features the rest of the industry has adopted. Sure, it's a finely made program, it just doesn't stack up the way it used to several years ago. Multiple alternatives have columns now, and that was really its only major plus.
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| Dec 11 2004 |
STREPIDUS I tried CP Notebook, I tried using Word's Notebook layout view, but in the end, OmniOutliner 3 turns out to be exactly the app that I was looking for to take class notes. It's fast, doesn't get in the way, has styles (and style!), and has an educational discount that I will definitely take advantage of. Simply wonderful...
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 | Dec 10 2004 |
BRIAN COVEY - SUPPORT MANAGER Boy; there's a lot to respond to here. Yeah, there are different users out there, and they want different things. When we decided to start in on OmniOutliner 3, there were at least three broad categories of users we could go for. Some folks used OmniOutliner 2 as a to-do list and organizer - they wanted one set of features. Other folks looked at the fact that we had columns and summaries and wanted us to go in a more spreadsheet-y direction. The largest broad category of feedback we got, though, was "I really like writing in OmniOutliner, but I need to export my document to Word, or AppleWorks, or before I can show it to anyone." Many of these users were the folks that ponied up far more than Outliner costs, even at the new pricing for a tool from back in the day called MORE. I used to do a lot of OmniOutliner support, and I cannot count for you the number of times that we got email that began "I really like OmniOutliner, but I used to use this tool called MORE..." This broad class of users was the bigger than the other broad categories, and when you're developing any application, you have to prioritize. The features you *could* implement will always be more numerous than the features you have time to actually implement. So, yes, we focused on better presentation in our documents and on the printed page. We added tools for the folks that we know wanted those things. Those users are lawyers, students, teachers, and authors. If you're the type of user that doesn't care one whit about what things look like, if you're the sort of user whose documents are just used to keep yourself on track and they never leave the format of your monitor, then I can understand you being a little disappointed by version three. It, quite honestly, was not designed for you as a user. And I'm sorry for that; if we had infinite time and infinite resources, we'd have loved to develop everything at once and present you with an app that did the data-driven stuff you're after and had great presentation features. We ran the risk, however, of becoming the Mozilla of outliners, though - nifty, feature-packed code that takes so long to appear that no one really cares any more when it does arrive. Okay. About pricing. For the standard version, we definitely had some people here who opposed increasing the price at all. However, other people felt very strongly that the product was underpriced at $29.95, and the "That's all? Are you crazy?" look we'd get at MacWorld when we demoed version 2 factored into the "what do we price 3" discussion. We definitely do not plan to do this with every iteration of the product. Of course I can't promise we'll never increase the price again, but this was a 'fixing what we thought was wrong' decision, not an "inflate the pricing" strategy we want to adhere to every time we release a new version. As for Pro, we had a lot to consider. We looked at the feature set, we looked at its retail competitors, NoteTaker and NoteBook ($69 and $49), we looked at our past experience selling Pro versions of our software. We offer features no other outliner does (named styles, for instance), in addition to being on par with similarly-priced apps. Of course, charging for the sum of its parts means that some folks only want one feature in Pro, and that one feature costs them the whole upgrade. Other folks, though, get a heck of a deal. And if you don't need any of the features in Pro at all, that's why we offer standard. We look at it as saving some of our customers money, rather than forcing anyone to pay for features that they don't need. And lastly: comparison with other applications. All I'll say is that when you have multiple applications that are doing the same sorts of things, you end up with feature overlap. In some case this is out-and-out copying; in other cases, it's a simple case of parallel evolution. If you don't care a whit about styles, then OmniOutliner 3 may not be for you. We don't hate you for that fact, and all we ask is that you not hate us or our users because they do. If anybody copied anything, Tao, Outliner, and the other Outliners popping up in the last three years all copied from MORE; we just picked different features and we did it in different orders. =)
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