![]() There is also a public forum, and a public Slack workspace to discuss features of all Omni apps. There are semi-closed beta tests for all new releases, which you can register for free of charge. They are known to closely work with the community. There is also telephone support, which underlines their premium goals. The Omni Group as a company provides quick support in multiple languages via e-mail. While I could not find many references for early versions, the release of OmniOutliner 2.0 for Mac dates back to 2002. OmniOutliner as a product is one of their oldest apps which is still in their current lineup. While their apps also come with high price tags, the applications are as polished and advanced as they would be on the Desktop. Over the years, many of their applications made a successful move to iOS.Īs one of the few, The Omni Group tries to bring premium applications to the iPad. Initially, they were very invested in Mac development. Up to now, they grew to over 50 employees to develop and maintain a variety of applications, all targeted at the Apple market. The company dates back into the earlier days of Apple software development, with being founded in 1992. OmniOutliner is created by The Omni Group. Next, some general details about outlining and why you should do it. First, I'll talk about the history of The Omni Group and OmniOutliner itself. In this article, I'll take a look at OmniOutliner and discuss how it can beat Markdown outlines or mind mapping.īefore looking into the app itself, let's take a look at some background information. Outlines are intended lists of bullet points, a way to structure and brainstorm new project ideas, take notes in a meeting, or structure your documents. Putting history aside, OmniOutliner is an excellent tool for outlining tool for Mac and iOS. This is a pity, as OmniFocus historically actually sprouted out of OmniOutliner Pro as a third party addon for GTD. However, OmniOutliner is for some reason lesser known. As the name suggests, it is closely related to the task management suite OmniFocus, which you probably know. OmniOutliner is an outlining app by The Omni Group. My reviews target neutral conclusions based on my usage, to let you draw your own judgments if this app is right for you. Note, that I am not paid for the review, and I am free to write whatever I want, or even decide not to review the app at all. I also opened up OmniOutliner for the Mac and the templating and weird font-level formatting just made me angry at it all over again.Disclaimer! I received this app for free by The Omni Group (Thank you!) (But I don’t want to scratch the surface to find out.) Dynalist seems a more comprehensive (and complicated) product, but I think that Workflowy was easier to work with, and faster, so for now I think I like it a bit more.Ĭheckvist still seems uglier and more ungainly, though perhaps that’s only skin deep. I pasted a TaskPaper document as well as an OMPL file from my clipboard. I have free accounts on both services and just decided to try them out again in the web versions on my Mac. Check out their monthly blog to see what they’ve been doing: Having said that, they are making constant improvements. If they did, I’m sure the mobile experience would be much better. It has been clear from the beginning that the Dynalist developers don’t really use their own app on mobile, and certainly not on iOS. I prefer Dynalist, but agree that if I were just selecting between the two iOS apps right now I might use Workflowy instead. I don’t think I could do all this with Workflowy. Dynalist is a great way to pick up a file needed for a task and quickly move it over to another machine. The web version in Edge on Windows 10 is great for me at work, where I do not have a Mac-I can drag emails from Outlook, files, etc., and set up tasks as calendar events with the Google calendar integration. I use Dynalist mainly on Mac and Windows 10, and find I’ve been using it more. Workflowy’s big strength to me is the single tree idea, and the way it really handles extremely long outlines very, very well. I’ve used both, and other tools like Checkvist. Would appreciate any thoughts on others who have used both. My calendar does diary, my files are in icloud. In the end I miss the simplicity of Workflowy. I also found the line change from normal to edit mode extremely annoying when editing a lot of entries. The dates option is more problematic than useful as dated things usually need export, which is another major problem for me with Dynalist. I’ve also come to realise that I don’t use the wiki-links, or attach files much. ![]() ![]() ![]() As this is my mobile tool it creates a lot of friction. I think the main reason for my switch back is that dynalist on an iPad Pro is woeful. I then switched to Dynalist for the last year and hardly use it at all. ![]() I used Workflowy for a few years and it was my goto app. ![]()
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