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Posted by MadaboutDana
Dec 19, 2013 at 09:53 AM
Those clever folks at outline.ws have just launched their fully enabled OneNote editor for Mac (Outline for Mac), which looks really rather good: http://outline.ws/mac
If the quality of their iOS offering is anything to go by (Outline+), it should be a seriously nice piece of software.
The big pluses their apps have over OneNote itself (and its various clients) are: drawing, rearranging of text boxes, multiple synchronisation with e.g. Dropbox, Box, SkyDrive etc. In this sense their apps are even more powerful than Microsoft’s own (although I would be the first to admit that OneNote for iOS and Android isn’t bad).
Of all Microsoft’s Office applications, OneNote is perhaps the most entertaining to use (once you’ve got to grips with its ridiculously over-redundant interface = billions of ways of doing the same thing, at least on Windows). Also, it’s a great place to store seriously huge amounts of data, including documents, images, etc. My various OneNote databases take up around 1GB on my iPad, and they’re growing rapidly!
The Outline versions streamline the concept, while preserving important features like a very powerful search function and adding drawing (which you can’t do in OneNote for iOS, Android etc.).
Posted by MadaboutDana
Dec 19, 2013 at 09:59 AM
... also, you’ve got to love any software that has a category called “RECENTS” on its navigation bar. Sounds like the meerkat stars of all those comparethemarket.com ads…
Posted by Hugh
Dec 19, 2013 at 06:18 PM
Thanks, madabout. Now it has an editor, it’s definitely worth considering.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Dec 20, 2013 at 11:56 PM
Outline is an great option for OneNote users who want access to their notes on their Mac (and iPad), but for those who don’t use OneNote but are looking for an app that replicates its powerful features, Outline is NOT the app for you… at least that’s my view. It does lists and text okay, and you can add a photo or an attachment. But so many of the great features of OneNote are absent in the Mac version of Outline. Anyway, I just want to make sure people understand what they’re getting with Outline: A handy way to view and make textual edits to their OneNote notes. If you get it hoping to have found the “Mac OneNote,” you’ll be disappointed. At least I am. Curio and Circus Ponies Notebook are better options right now, I think, and I am hopeful that the Mac version of Magical Pad will be a nice option when it comes out (supposedly in February).
Steve Z.
Posted by Lucas
Dec 21, 2013 at 05:52 AM
I would just point out that the new Outline software for Mac can be useful if one wants to have outlines synced between a Mac and an Android device (or an iOS device for that matter). I had been looking for a way to take notes in a “one-pane” outliner style and have them synced across my Mac and my Android, and the new Outline fits the bill far better than anything else I’ve found. Outlines don’t collapse, but there are some other useful organization features (tabs, tags, etc).