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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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