It’s where you’ll design the look and feel of your document. Styles are split up into two sections in the sidebar: the top half is for document styles, and the bottom half is for named styles (rows and highlighted text).ĭocument styles affect background color, default fonts, default font sizes, row colors, how various children rows are styled, etc. It’s the core feature of the app, but they’re not necessarily intuitive until you start playing around with them. Styling in Outliner can be intimidating since there’s so many different ways you can customize your document.
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The one thing that the Pro version does get though is the ability to expand and collapse rows using the disclosure triangles.Ī quick primer on styles, the inspector, and templates While these are nice-to-haves, I don’t think they’re necessarily must have features. With the Pro version of Outliner, The Omni Group adds a few extra features like Word export, added customization for text (line height), the option to hide row handles (the bullets), the option to hide columns, and ability to customize the toolbar per document. I’ve never been one to attach files to my Outliner notes, but the recording audio in the app is incredibly handy when taking meeting notes or recording lectures. You can drag and drop files into rows, paste hyperlinks, and record audio right from the toolbar. Information in Outliner isn’t limited to just text. By default, Documents are up with a rich text column that gives you ample space to type away (as check boxes aren’t exactly useful on their own). Thus, the outlines you create with Outliner can be interactive. They’re really just isolated verticals of information, providing additional places to store information like dates, check boxes, pop-up lists, durations, rich text, numbers, and sums. Outliner is unique in that you can have multiple columns like a spreadsheet, but columns really don’t interact with one another. Once you kind of get what’s happening, creating and applying Styles isn’t too hard. Styles can be applied to the whole document, to individual rows, or to highlighted characters within the rows themselves. In a style, you can define a number of properties like the font, font size, font color, background color for the row, if text is emphasized, how it’s aligned, the line height, and the list goes on and on. Styles are Outliner’s bread and butter, which are kind the equivalent of “swatches” for text. It’s where you’ll see a basic overview of your outline, where you can search through everything, and where you can apply various Styles to spice things up a bit. Where the cool stuff happens is in the sidebar, which is much improved over whatever was going on in OmniOutliner 3. And each bullet point can be annotated with a footnote, which is just called a note. You’ll see little arrows, which you can click to hide and reveal information. Tab indents rows, potentially making them children to what might be above.
You type, you get characters next to a bullet, and you hit enter to start another bullet below. The basics of the app are pretty easy to grasp. And unlike Microsoft Word’s outlining tools, Outliner is, for the most part, pleasant to use. It’s an app for brainstorming, for taking class notes (and even like they taught you in school with a margin for page numbers), for keeping a list of items you’re selling at a garage sale, and really for just about anything that doesn’t quite need an actual spreadsheet. Ideas are defined as hierarchical relationships, with topic headings expanding into sub topics expanding into specific details and so on and so forth. The skinny, if you’re not familiar with Outliner, is that it’s basically an app that makes really pretty lists. I tend to think in bullet points, whereas Federico tends to think in relationships, so I use Outliner the same way he uses MindNode. And honestly, I really don’t know where to start. For posterity, we’ll call it Outliner for the rest of our overview. As Ken Case said himself, “… other than a few tweaks to the inspectors and toolbars, its design has mostly stayed the same: it’s starting to feel a bit long in the tooth.” 2013 came and went, and as they say, all good things take time. As an app that was first released in January, 2005, OmniOutliner 3 was in need of an update. So it was back to the Mac as it were, with OmniFocus 2 being at the forefront of the company’s plans with OmniOutliner 4 due afterwards in the first quarter. It was just over a year ago that CEO Ken Case of The Omni Group outlined the company’s plans for 2013, following a successful “ iPad or Bust!” campaign that allowed the company to bring all five ( well okay… “four”) of their desktop productivity apps to the iPad.
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