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Posted by Hugh
Nov 5, 2017 at 04:09 PM
And in my view, the absence of clones remains OO’s biggest flaw.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Nov 5, 2017 at 04:40 PM
I agree, especially in an outliner that costs that much. On the other hand, do any of the MacOS/iOS outliners have cloning?
Hugh wrote:
And in my view, the absence of clones remains OO’s biggest flaw.
Posted by Paul Korm
Nov 5, 2017 at 05:45 PM
OmniOutliner might appear “old fashioned”—but it has features that many / most “outliners” do not have:
- By using columns we can have a nearly unlimited number of customer “attributes” / “fields”, or whatever you want to call them—without resorting to fragile things like hashtags, tags, or TaskPaper’s @something construct
- OO syncs flawlessly across platforms—always has—on iCloud or on OmniGroup’s still-free OmniPresence—I don’t have to subscribe to something just to use my own hardware
- It has a large, active development staff behind it
- I supports multiple export formats
I really like (and frequently use) the other apps mentioned in this thread, but when it comes to doing work for clients, I always return to OO.
Posted by Bob Spies
Nov 5, 2017 at 06:15 PM
I second everything Paul says about OmniOutliner. It’s conservative about adding new features, but the amount of attention that’s gone into making its existing features work smoothly and flawlessly sets it apart—in my opinion—as the highest quality hard-core outliner out there.
The one thing I’m disappointed about is Omni’s decision way-back-when to move all personal task-management features into a separate product (OmniFocus). I find personal task management to be something that’s far more effective when integrated with the outliner I use for my working and reference notes. Grandview and Circus Ponies Notebook both could do this, but alas neither is around today. I know there are web options, but I manage far too much confidential information to trust a web-based solution.
I’m also a fan of TaskPaper mainly because of its brilliant use of formatting conventions built on top of a text file format.
Posted by Luhmann
Nov 6, 2017 at 02:53 AM
Another way of defining my personal “idiosyncratic standards” for an outliner might be to say that I want a Workflowy-inspired outliner that works across platforms.It still seems to me that only the four outliners in my original post meet such a requirement. Other people may not like the workflowy-model of how an outliner should work, but for me it is close to perfect, and Dynalist has come the closest to perfecting it on desktop, while Mubu and Outlinely have done the best on iOS.