Omni Outliner 3.0 Manual

CONTENTS LET’S TRY IT 8 Meet the Outliner: an overview of OmniOutliner’s interface 8 HELLO 2 Mini-tutorial: Essential Keys 9 Welcome to OmniOutliner 2 Tutorial: Selecting, Moving Around, and Styling 10 Welcome to This Manual 2 Tutorial: Columns, Notes, and Sorting 14 AN IN-DEPTH LOOK 18 WHAT’S NEW 3 Inspectors 18 Interface Improvements 3 Toolbar 23 Utility Drawer 24 Document Improvements 4 Particularly Useful Features 25 Printing Improvements 4 Preferences 27 Pro Features 5 Import, Export, Save, Print 29 INSTALLATION 7 HELP 30 Further Help 30 How to get OmniOutliner on your Mac so you can start working. 7 Keyboard Commands 30 Try the Online Help 30 1 HELLO! WELCOME TO OMNIOUTLINER We all have ideas knocking around in our heads. OmniOutliner is for getting those ideas out into the open where you can see them, shuffle them around, neatly present them, and share them with other people. With it, you can quickly jot down notes into a list, or you can forge monumental masses of information into shape with pixel-by-pixel precision. Hierarchical lists and tables can be used to express nearly any idea you have. You probably already write them all the time on paper or with word processors and spreadsheet programs. But OmniOutliner is specifically built for list and table creation, so it’s more powerful than a word processor, while being lighter and cleaner than a spreadsheet. OmniOutliner is designed to be fast and simple, so you can jump in, start getting things done right away, and worry about the intricacies later. But it’s also powerful, so that once you are ready, you can exert a nearly supernatural level of control over your data. We’re not kidding; it’s spooky. WELCOME TO THIS MANUAL OmniOutliner seems simple at first, and you can actually use it quite happily without delving into its innermost features. But then you’d be missing out on much of the fun. This manual is here to introduce you to some of the things you might not discover on your own; not everyone is the rash, adventurous type who goes selecting every menu item just for amusement. You can refer back …