OmniOutliner 5

OmniOutliner 5

By The Omni Group

  • Category: Productivity
  • Release Date: 2017-04-05
  • Current Version: 5.12
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 40.75 MB
  • Developer: The Omni Group
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 11.0

Description

This is OmniOutliner 5: a flexible, svelte, and focused app for creating, collecting, and organizing information and ideas. OmniOutliner Essentials is simple—everything you need to get started. Pro adds powerful features like smart columns, password protection, keyboard shortcuts, and plenty more. Try out both for free! Use an outline to put structure on new ideas, rearrange them and construct beautiful documents for sharing with built-in themes. But it’s way more than just an outlining tool—you’ve got multiple columns, smart checkboxes, pop-up lists, and a fantastically rich styles system. Draft a simple to-do list, create an agenda for a meeting, take notes, plan events, write anything from diaries to screenplays, or any other task that calls for structured text. FREE TRIAL With the free two week trial, you can try all of the features of Essentials and Pro. After the trial, you can continue to use OmniOutliner to view documents for free. ESSENTIALS EDITION FEATURES (AVAILABLE VIA IN-APP PURCHASE) • Filters: Use the search field in the toolbar to do a quick keyword filter. • Document Stats: Row, word, and character count are displayed in the bottom bar. • Distraction-Free Mode: Automatically hide the toolbar when switching to full screen. • Side Margins: drag the margin borders to set the width of your outline independent of your display width. • Cell Highlight: The cell being edited is indicated by a highlight on the left edge to give you more context. • Touch Bar: Use and customize the Touch Bar for quick access to features. • Dark Mode: OmniOutliner’s UI adapts to match your document theme. • Bottom Padding: You’ll no longer be stuck typing at the bottom of the window with the extra padding added below outlines. • Typewriter Mode: Keep your eye line constant by keeping the active row in the middle of the screen. • New File Format: OmniOutliner 5 uses a new .ooutline format: a flat (zipped) file that is more compatible with third-party cloud platforms. • Pro Document Compatibility: Documents with Pro features are fully viewable in Essentials, along with an option to import a copy that removes all Pro content. PRO FEATURES (AVAILABLE VIA IN-APP PURCHASE) • Filters: Create and save complex filters based on status, column data, and boolean operations. • Password Encryption: Add a password to secure your documents (AES-256 encryption). • Slide-in Sidebars: In full screen, moving the cursor to either edge of the screen makes the sidebars appear temporarily. • Style Preview: A preview of the style you are inspecting is shown at the top of the inspectors. • Multiple-Row Focus: Focus on multiple selections by command-clicking them in the section list. • Resize Column to Fit: Select a column and have OmniOutliner adjust the width with the Resize to fit button in the Column Type Inspector. • Specify Column Widths: The Column Inspector now has an editable field for the width. Columns can also be set to resize with the window or be set to a specific width. • Keyboard Shortcuts: Easily customize shortcuts to your own liking. • Excel Export: Export to xlsx format. For video tutorials and other information, please visit our website! If you have any feedback or questions, we'd love to hear from you! The Omni Group offers free tech support: you can reach us by email at [email protected], by phone at 1-800-315-6664 or +1-206-523-4152, or on twitter at @omnioutliner. Thank you! Subscription Terms of Service: https://www.omnigroup.com/legal

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Reviews

  • Great app for organization

    4
    By Southgtlman
    I have used this app for years. I have tried others also but keep coming back to OO. The ability to explore a point in detail and then collapse it is a huge factor. Many or most other apps do not have that feature.

  • Column Width Adjustment

    1
    By nDimensions
    I am revising my review to a single star. The column width resizing is just deeply flawed. When I narrow a column, it moves away from the left edge of the screen. I have to continually resize columns to make them useful. Very irritating UX.

  • How not to design an app

    1
    By HappyCatMachine
    It is as if Omni decided to just ignore every user interface standard. Doing anything in this app requires one to learn the Omni-way. It's super powerful and cool when it works but alas, every time I try to use it I have to relearn it! I suppose now I'll have to wait for them to release a new version, fixiing the many problems, and I'll end up having to PAY for the 'feature' of making it usable.

  • Best OutLiner

    5
    By squalamack
    I always go back to this app. For outlining--and for editing outlines--nothing is faster or more powerful.

  • Quirky, pricey, powerful

    4
    By red.planet
    OmniOutliner (OO) has a steep learning curve and is expensive for a single-purpose app, but if you're willing to spend the time and the money, it is the most powerful and best-featured outliner I've found. I'm a published author who's been using OO for a few years. I use it for various projects and have outlined two novels and numerous short stories with the software. There are many other outline and writing apps available, but none of them have the full feature set I've found with OO. Notion is okay and is easier to use, but the ability to fully customize your outline using OO is extremely helpful for long, complex outlines needed for novels. Evernote is basic and gets the job done, but doesn't have the feature set, including bullets that can be expanded or collapsed -- again, features that are helpful with complex outlines. There are also many apps that are specifically intended to help you outline, but none of them had the full feature set of OO, and I didn't find them as aesthetically pleasing (which becomes important when you're working in a deeply complex outline for more than a year). OO is expensive. You can buy it outright or pay a subscription, and both of them are pricey. Since I've grown tired of the subscription racket, I purchased the app outright. Other apps like Evernote and Notion come with full featured writing capabilities, so that might work better for you if you only need an occasional outlining tool. Other dedicated apps are similarly priced with subscription models that are approximately the same cost as OO. When you first start using OO, it seems complex and quirky, which it is. In order to leverage the full power of the app, you need to spend time learning it, using the in-app guide. After spending a few days with it, you'll start to understand the logic of the choices that were made, and things will flow more smoothly. I actually abandoned the app a couple of times because I didn't understand why I couldn't simply highlight two or three dot points and move them around. Read the guide, and everything you want to do becomes clearer and easier (including moving two or three dot points around). Bottom line: If you need a full-featured, aesthetically pleasing outlining app, you'll be hard pressed to find a better one than OmniOutliner.

  • UGH

    2
    By hdhehkfjha
    I want this to work, so bad. But instead of making me work efficiently, I am grinding my teeth and spending way more time trying to keep my outline and notes orderly instead of letting the program turn them into confusing jibberish. Try this out if you are a glutton for punishment and want to triple the amount of time it takes to do anything.

  • I really want to love this app.. but

    3
    By Sank63
    I've been trying to use Omnioutliner for a couple years. I love the idea of it. I certainly see the potential. However, if you want to hear a user cussing at his Mac, come by when I'm trying to do somethign in this tool. It might be the least intuative piece of software I try to use. - Promoting and demoting- easy tab and shift tab, unelss it defaults for some reason to makeing every return a child. .and then I have search teh manual to figure out why. - Open a OPML Doc. and half the functionaliy is missing. Can not figure out how to update or save as the right file.. - Formating is clugey, have to figure you inspector or formatting window you want, It's a long list for me. Maybe I'm just not that saavy or have a block when it comes to this tool, .. here we are. The good news, and why it has three stars, when I do finally figure out how to make it work, it's great. Sadly that's about 1/2 the time

  • Need to create an account with Omni!

    1
    By SBCpp
    I downloaded the latest version of OmniOutliner to start my 14 day free trial with the intension to subscribe to Pro for Mac and iOS. After I dowloaded the app, I clicked to launch it but to my surprise there are only 2 options available: 1) free viewer and 2) create an account to start the 14 day trial. Wait a minute, this is being sold on the App store and supposedly sync with iCloud Drive. Why do I HAVE to creat and account with the OmniGroup? NO! Thank you very much!

  • Superb

    5
    By Hjoin
    I have been using Omni Outliner for years. I keep and take notes, keep and present meeting minutes, and work on writing projects. The ability to drag and drop lines and rearrange the outline works so well for me. I also keep a book of short writings with each poem or short piece in the text area or outlining area under its title. I know the app is much more capable to do many more things than I've learned. I have found it indispensible for the way I work and the needs I have for a writing, organizing program.

  • Spinning Beachball Viewer

    1
    By *holden*
    I have OO Pro. I've tried using it for course notes. I want all my notes for a single course in one document. OO Pro would be perfect for that task if only it worked. Love the promise of foldable outline form, customizable formats, combined with LaTeX integration (albeit clunky) and images. 3/4 or the way through a course and OO Pro cannot handle the volume of attachments (images and rendered LaTeX) on my MacBook Pro/6GB RAM/1TB SSD. Even clicking on OO Pro after returning from another window leads to a long wait. The problem has existed for at least 6 years and Omni appears to have no will to fix it. Invest your time and money elsewhere.

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