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OmniOutliner Pro

OmniOutliner Pro - 3.0

outline & organize thoughts, tasks, projects...

All Time: (4.2)
Version 3.0: (5.0)
Selected Version: 3.0
Release Date: 2005-01-05
License: Commercial
Downloads (version 3.0): 1,388
Downloads (all versions): 60,787
Price: $69.95

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Product Description:

Welcome to OmniOutliner 3, an amazingly 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 ᅢテᅡᄐber-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.

We've updated OmniOutliner with version 3 to deliver the features most requested by our current customers: support for inline images, links to external URLs, more flexible options for searching and navigating, and rich formatting options for presentation on screen and in print.

However, we didn't stop there - some features are just more relevant to the power user, and that's why we've created a "Pro" version of OmniOutliner with even more options.

What's new in this version:

New to OmniOutliner 3.0 are many new options for styling and editing documents, as well as support for attachments, new export options, inline notes, improved AppleScript support, a batch find feature, and much more.

  • STYLES
    New to OmniOutliner 3.0 are many new options for styling and editing documents. OmniOutliner has a powerful new Styles system designed to give you everything you need to apply style changes - from one word at a time to document-wide.
  • ATTACHMENTS
    OmniOutliner documents can now include images, sound files (you can even record audio directly into your document with OmniOutliner Professional), movies, web links, and links to files or applications on your computer.
  • EXPORT OPTIONS
    OmniOutliner documents can be exported as plain text, rich text, OPML, HTML, or you can write your own custom export plugins. OmniOutliner's HTML-exported web pages allow you to expand and collapse items in a browser, and include all of your document's styles. Outlines can also be turned into presentations by exporting to Apple's Keynote format.
  • APPLESCRIPT
    OmniOutliner can interact with any other AppleScriptable program, so you could create an AppleScript to take a list of actions and dates from OmniOutliner and draw a calendar of them in OmniGraffle.
  • BATCH FIND
    In OmniOutliner 3.0, there is a new feature for when you need to find a specific word or phrase in your outline. Type in your search word, and OmniOutliner searches your whole outline at once. All of the matching results will show up in the Utility drawer and update with each letter you type, so you get results immediately.
  • INLINE NOTES
    Notes can now be displayed right beneath the items they're associated with, so you can see all of your notes without having to select each item in turn. If you prefer the old way, you can still choose to view notes in a pane at the bottom of the window.
  • FOLDED EDITING
    Folded editing works with you to actively hide and display the information in your outlines, so you can save time and be more productive by focusing on exactly what you want to see.
  • SECTIONS
    The new Sections drawer in OmniOutliner Professional reveals your entire document framework at a glance, and allows you to jump from one place to another.
  • NAMED STYLES
    Named styles are sets of style attributes that you can save and apply to any part of your outline. Once you've set up a style to your specifications, drag it into your named styles list, then it can be used over and over.
  • CLIPPING SERVICE
    OmniOutliner Professional's new clipping service allows you to select text from other applications and seamlessly store that information in OmniOutliner without actually copying and pasting. Archive snippets from email, content from web pages, paragraphs from TextEdit, etc.
  • AUDIO RECORDING
    OmniOutliner Professional allows you to capture audio directly into your documents so you can add voice memos, or whatever audio you like. The audio file is embedded in your document along with a notation of the date and time.
  • SAVED TEMPLATES
    OmniOutliner Professional documents can be saved as templates, which can then be used as starting points for new documents. Templates preserve everything about an outline, including its content, its styles, and its document preferences.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.3
  • Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.2 or higher

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Feedback Summary:

Version 3.0:
Overall Rating: (5.0) Features: (5.0) Support: (4.7)
Ease of Use: (5.0) Quality / Stability: (5.0) Price: (4.0)
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OmniOutliner Pro Troubleshooting ReportCannot open OmniOutliner Pro 3.7.2 (2008-11-19) - Version: 3.7.2, 12/18/2008 11:05AM PST

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Ceancord
Previous version (6.2) opened and used OK. This new version, downloaded, as advertised in VersionTracker, proclaims that I cannot open it "on this architecture" - whatever that means.

I use it on a Mac, now OS 10.5.6.

So?

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OmniOutliner Pro CommentaryStill no servable version or locking of open docs - Version: 3.6.5, 5/4/2008 06:35PM PST

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Otter2
I'm a licensed user with 8 licenses for OO Pro which I use in my estate planning law office for a variety of tasks, all of which involve project management, process control and checklists to make certain that we don't forget to do anything.

I am astounded that after all the years of development, and several requests to make OO docs servable or at least lock themselves to other users when they are opened, that I can open a document on one machine, have another user open the same doc on their machine, make changes to the document on my machine and save them, have the other user make changes to the document on their machine and save them which will overwrite the changes I've made and saved. But for the fact that all the users in my office know about this glaring defect in an otherwise great product, this oversight could create a disaster for us if some checklist item got deleted by a second user opening and modifiying a document that another user had opened first.

OO is a great organizer, but only for one person at a time. And I think it's time I looked for a project management package that is servable.

otter

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OmniOutliner Pro Commentarystill alive? - Version: 3.6.2, 8/2/2007 05:13PM PST

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G983475
I sure do wish there was an update. The app is great at what it does, but there's still a lot missing. It could be the king of outliners/notetaking apps with some more development.
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