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OmniOutliner 4 requires OS X 10.9 Mavericks, so if you haven’t upgraded to the latest version of the OS, you can’t run it.

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Many of these features you can live without, and I’d suggest that you audition both versions before you spring for the Pro features, because you can upgrade to Pro after purchasing Standard.

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The Pro version costs $50 more than the Standard version, and provides several additional features, including expanded styling options, more control over indentation and line heights, the ability to hide and show columns, AppleScript support, manual page breaks, create customized toolbars for particular documents, and different ways to customize and display notes. I found OmniPresence worked exactly as claimed, synchronizing items effortlessly between devices. Though OmniPresence provides similar syncing as services such as Dropbox or Box, Omni Group says that it is more compatible with OS X’s Versions and Auto Save, and that it better handles file structures such as OS X’s package files. Once you’re set up, files and folders placed in the OmniPresence local folder are available and automatically synced to your iOS devices, and to other Macs that also have OmniPresence installed.

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This app syncs documents in a local folder on your Mac with documents in OmniGroup’s iOS apps (OmniOutliner and OmniGraffle).Īfter installing and launching OmniPresence on your Mac, you must specify a cloud location, either the free Omni Sync Server service or your own WebDAV-based server.

There are versions of OmniOutliner for both Mac and iPad, and rather than struggle with implementing iCloud syncing across platforms, OmniGroup created their own synchronization app, OmniPresence. OmniOutliner 4 takes a cue from the company’s OmniFocus task manager, and renames Hoist to Focus. In previous versions, the Hoist command allowed you to display only the current topic and its subtopics, hiding the rest of the outline so you can work on the current topic without distraction. When you need another dimension to work with your information, OmniOutliner’s columns fill the bill.Īlong with the user interface changes come changes to familiar terminology. You can now also add the styles from a template-its theme-to your own outlines. Of course, you can save your own outlines as templates. The program also automatically populates pop-up lists to make data entry faster, and parses date entries such as “next Wednesday,” “tomorrow,” and “+5d (for 5 days ahead).” A new favorite feature is the ability to zoom the outline to view it larger or smaller.Ĭreating outlines is faster with the addition of the Resource Browser, which contains more than a dozen premade templates to help you get started. OmniOutliner has always been unusual in that it supported not just outline rows, but also columns, and you can now hide columns you don’t need to see. The Inspector, where you make style changes and specify how the outline displays, has been overhauled and reorganized, to good effect.

The previous version’s drawer, which held a miniature view of your whole outline, along with a pane for row styles, has been changed to a sidebar that can be hidden. The biggest change in OmniOutliner is the refreshed user interface that’s cleaner and easier to use.

The Omni Group says that Mavericks is required because the user interface upgrades they implemented in OmniOutliner didn’t work well in Mountain Lion.

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