Acta and Opal

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Posted by MadaboutDana
Jan 28, 2015 at 07:56 PM

The last time anybody mentioned Opal, the reincarnation of Acta, was back in 2006 (I think).

Is anybody using this rather exotic but thoroughly traditional Mac outliner?

Posted by Hugh
Jan 29, 2015 at 10:36 AM

MadaboutDana wrote:
The last time anybody mentioned Opal, the reincarnation of Acta, was
>back in 2006 (I think).
> >Is anybody using this rather exotic but thoroughly traditional Mac
>outliner?
> >http://a-sharp.com/opal/

I use it, and I like it for its simplicity and lack of exoticism - when I need to use a Mac outliner that’s simple and unexotic. (In passing it’s worth recording that on this forum I think it’s been mentioned several times since 2006; I and others have mentioned it and its developer, David Dunham, has also contributed.)

Posted by Hugh
Jan 29, 2015 at 12:46 PM

Perhaps I should explain why I see Opal as “unexotic”, Bill. Compared with Tinderbox, of course it is. But Tinderbox is sui generis. Compared with, say, OmniOutliner, Opal is somewhat simpler. But I started using Opal alongside Neo and its predecessor TAO: you just have to look at TAO’s user interface (for example: http://www.macupdate.com/images/screens/uploaded/JPG/13891_scr.jpg) - now that’s exoticism!

Posted by Paul Korm
Jan 29, 2015 at 04:15 PM

Yes, but TAO has elan :-)

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