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Posted by avernet
Apr 5, 2018 at 11:54 PM
Paul, I agree, OmniOutliner seems like the best out of the 3 I mentioned. But I still feel somewhat uneasy about the way it shows attachments and the somewhat outdated look of the whole user interface.
Chris, it looks like Dynalist is a great option; its $96/year is just a turn-off, but I should maybe reconsider.
Dellu, I hadn’t considered OneNote, as I would put it more in the Evernote, Bear, or Google Keep category. Like you said, it doesn’t support infinite nesting, and overall doesn’t work like an outliner.
Thank you all for your answers so far!
Also, if I can ask a follow-up question: what do you do for the use case I have a mind? Have you found a good solution or combination of solutions to keep track of notes about notes about books, articles, restaurants, travel plans, people, ideas, recipes, and such?
Alex
Posted by Dellu
Apr 6, 2018 at 02:26 AM
Alessandro Vernet wrote:
Have you found a good solution or combination of
>solutions to keep track of notes about notes about books, articles,
>restaurants, travel plans, people, ideas, recipes, and such?
For personal stuff, about travel, restaurants and like stuff, I used to use DayOne (now, MacJournal). I just tag them. I don’t do much organization. I really don’t have much problem with this since I usually write less number of notes.
My problem is with my academic notes. I have thousands of them.
I use these apps:
1) Tinderbox
2) Devonthink
3) Keep it
4) Scrivener
5) Curiota
I use tags and saved searches to group notes on a specific topic within Devonthink and Keepit.
I also don’t find organizing my notes in outline that simple task. I often use Tinderbox for the task. But, I sometime lose track of the whole organization. Often times, I don’t even know where to put a certain note. My inbox gets crowded. It becomes messy. Even if Tinderbox is the best tool for this kind of task, it is still very difficult to come up with a consistent system that could work all the time.
I wish there is an easier way.
Had their license be fair, Atlas Ti would have been the ultimate solution for me—it includes the whole process of reading PDF, writing notes, tagging, mind mapping…everything.
Heck, they have a diabolical licensing system.
Posted by satis
Apr 6, 2018 at 02:27 AM
OmniOutliner is a well-supported app with an active dev team, and an active support board at https://discourse.omnigroup.com/c/omnioutliner
I bought OO Elements for my Mac but never upgraded to Pro, despite having a need for an app that handled lots of in-line image attachments. I thought Omni’s implementation wasn’t that great. Last year when Elements/Pro came out I asked them about any limitations (slowdowns, etc) in adding image attachments to individual Pro outlines and the answer was nothing more specific than It Depends.
I never settled on a Mac outliner with the image handling I wanted. For my purposes I am currently outlining in text (using OO Elements, though I’m learning to use TaskPaper) with images references separately in folders. I’m thinking of putting the images in OneNote or Apple’s Notes app…
Posted by MadaboutDana
Apr 6, 2018 at 12:05 PM
I’ve been very happy with Outlinely, not least because of its Mac/iOS support, but there are a few irritations. It’s a very powerful outliner, however (much better and much faster IMHO than OmniOutliner), with a good search function.
The other outliner worth considering is Cloud Outliner 2. It’s a little simplistic, but works pretty well. Not as powerful as Outlinely or OmniOutliner, but fast and efficient.
Todoist, one of the best multiplatform task managers, is also a mean outliner, and worth considering for its sheer flexibility.
Posted by satis
Apr 6, 2018 at 07:43 PM
I have Cloud Outliner Pro for Mac and iOS and - well, I bought them, and deleted them. Way too basic, slow-scrolling with large outlines, no image attachments (important for this thread), and the choice of only night/day themes with no adjustments is annoyng since I don’t like either one.