OmniOutliner 3 Public Beta

[Kathi Bade]

Phil -

Thanks so much for giving a great example of exactly what I've been 
looking for in OO - and exactly what I knew from email conversations 
with James would not be in this version.

This feature is what I need to make OO useful to me.  I'm a former In 
Control user, and moving to OS X caused me to abandon in, because I 
always seemed to have a problem shutting down Classic if In Control 
was running.  Given that In Control is all I ran in Classic, this 
didn't seem to be a winning situation.

There is no product on the marketplace for OS X that replicates what 
this marvelous piece of software used to do.

I thought I could maybe make OO work for me, as it does have a very 
nice OS X interface, and lets me use the outline format which I love.

But without exactly what you are asking for below, OO is just nowhere 
near as useful as it needs to be for me.

I'm having to seriously revise the way I manage my workflow because 
of the lack of a product that effectively handles outlining and 
scheduling; and it just might have involve another product as well as 
other manual changes.

I sincerely hope it doesn't come to that - I hope Omni hears this, 
and moves this functionality up the priority list for the next 
version; and that new version comes out SOON.  I won't buy another 
version until this feature is here; and given how long it's taken 
Omni to get this one out the door, I don't have hopes that it will be 
available any time soon.

Thanks again for stating so well what I really need also.  :-)

Best regards,

Kathi

P.S. - I'd love your "point 2" also, although I've been putting all 
my energies into "point 1"


_________

Congratulations on a fine new product - looks nice.

However, from my opinion, it has little new functionality.  I was 
really hoping that some of my suggestions from the summer would have 
been put into OO3.  Now if OO3 Pro has this, I'll buy it in a 
heartbeat.

What I was hoping for was to use OO3 for my task list.  It can be 
used for such (and always could), but a few keys were missing:

1)  be able to "unwrap" the hierarchical list during sort.  I want to 
be able to do this:
								Priority
		Project A
			Task a1				Today
			Task a2				This week
			Task a3				Next week
		Project B
			Task b1				Next week
			Task b2				Today
			Task b3				This week

could be sorted on the priority column to:

			Project A:Task a1				Today
			Project B:Task b2				Today
			Project A:Task a2 
	This week
			Project B:Task b3 
	This week
			Project A:Task a3 
	Next week
			Project B:Task b1 
	Next week

In other words, I may have several "order something" tasks related to 
different projects that I may like to do at the same time.

2) We need the ability to hide "done" items and re-show them.

I recall emailing back and forth with a gentleman in the summer and I 
was REALLY hoping that this type of functionality would be in OO3. 
Like I say, if it's in OO3 Pro, I'll be the first in line to 
purchase.  If not, then my search continues.

Thank you,

Phil Butler

On Dec 3, 2004, at 7:56 PM, Ken Case wrote:

>I think our team has done an amazing job, and I hope you enjoy using 
>OmniOutliner 3 as much as I do!
>
>http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner/beta/
>
>				Cheers,
>				Ken
>
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