Comments on: OmniOutliner http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/omnioutliner/ falling indelibly into the past Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:06:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Scott http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/omnioutliner/#comment-928 Scott Mon, 18 Jul 2005 06:14:35 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=451#comment-928 <p>I’m still getting into OO3....  It’s a little bit outliner, little bit spreadsheet, little bit text editor, little bit country.  Wait.  Scratch that last bit. And you can turn off that checkbox in the preferences. </p> <p> FWIW, I use Stickybrain pretty religiously for grabbing web pages and keeping information in one place. </p> <p> My problem is that I tend to write in fairly explosive bursts, and so I wind up scratching out some kind of flowchart/outline on a note card or envelope and then just downloading everything onto the page in a word processor.  I always just clean up afterwards, which gets confusing when you’re moving big chunks of text around. </p> <p> In OO, each paragraph gets a chunk.  I can provide temporary headers, move bits around, “hoist” something to the top temporarily to see how everything fits, collapse everything so I can just see the structure.  It’s neat. </p> <p> I’m still just learning the program, too, but at the moment I have two essays going in OO, and it’s had a remarkably positive effect on my productivity. </p> I’m still getting into OO3….  It’s a little bit outliner, little bit spreadsheet, little bit text editor, little bit country.  Wait.  Scratch that last bit. And you can turn off that checkbox in the preferences.

FWIW, I use Stickybrain pretty religiously for grabbing web pages and keeping information in one place.

My problem is that I tend to write in fairly explosive bursts, and so I wind up scratching out some kind of flowchart/outline on a note card or envelope and then just downloading everything onto the page in a word processor.  I always just clean up afterwards, which gets confusing when you’re moving big chunks of text around.

In OO, each paragraph gets a chunk.  I can provide temporary headers, move bits around, “hoist” something to the top temporarily to see how everything fits, collapse everything so I can just see the structure.  It’s neat.

I’m still just learning the program, too, but at the moment I have two essays going in OO, and it’s had a remarkably positive effect on my productivity.

]]> By: Jason http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/omnioutliner/#comment-927 Jason Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:50:45 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=451#comment-927 <p>Groovy, but a bummer for the WinCrowd.  Alas, if only you could game with a Mac ;-) </p> Groovy, but a bummer for the WinCrowd.  Alas, if only you could game with a Mac ;-)

]]> By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/omnioutliner/#comment-926 KF Fri, 15 Jul 2005 06:38:35 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=451#comment-926 <p>I’m afraid so.  It’s a shame; it’s a great tool.  The Omni folks also put out OmniGraffle, a diagramming package, and I accidentally figured out today that you can open OmniOutliner documents in OmniGraffle, to get a multi-dimensional, graphical view of the same hierarchical data.  Very groovy. </p> I’m afraid so.  It’s a shame; it’s a great tool.  The Omni folks also put out OmniGraffle, a diagramming package, and I accidentally figured out today that you can open OmniOutliner documents in OmniGraffle, to get a multi-dimensional, graphical view of the same hierarchical data.  Very groovy.

]]> By: Jason http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/omnioutliner/#comment-925 Jason Fri, 15 Jul 2005 02:57:09 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=451#comment-925 <p>OO is Mac OS only, yes? </p> OO is Mac OS only, yes?

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