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Omni Group posts OmniOutliner screencasts

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Mar 14th, 2007


OmniOutliner is arguably the Photoshop of the note-taking industry; it's endowed with a plethora of powerful abilities that are wrapped in a well-designed experience, and it wears many hats for its many users. It only makes sense, then, for the Omni crew to team up with ScreenCastsOnline to produce a series of free tutorial videos that demonstrate some of OmniOutliner and OmniOutliner Pro's key features. If you've ever needed a crash course on everything you can do with this powerful app, these videos range in topics from a basic introduction, levels and styles, columns in notes, embedding files and exactly what's so special about the Pro version.

As one would expect from a website that makes a living out of producing screencasts, these tutorials are very well produced and a great resource for users both old and new.

Tags: note taking, notes, NoteTaking, omni group, OmniGroup, omnioutliner, screencast, screencasts, screencasts online, ScreencastsOnline, the omni group, TheOmniGroup

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OmniFocus Sneak Preview

by Dan Lurie (RSS feed) on Jan 9th, 2007


OmniGroup today hosted a special event at the flagship Apple store in San Francisco to give users a sneak peak into their upcoming GTD productivity software OmniFocus. TUAW was there and brings you this special bulleted report!
  • OmniFocus, unlike its predecessor KinklessGTD will feature an instant data propagation across the app, thus doing away with the need for a "sync button," and ensuring your data is always where you expect it to be.
  • OmniFocus will have a simpler and more streamlined interface than OmniOutliner, on which KGTD was built.
  • Users will be able to view multiple or individual projects and contexts in either a single window or multiple separate windows.
  • OmniFocus will support existing KGTD QuickSilver inbox-entry actions.
  • OmniFocus will also feature a standalone proprietary quick-entry method via keystroke, similar to Yojimbo.
  • Future versions will support user definable smart folders.
  • The first version of OmniFocus will not require 10.5 Leopard, but all following versions will due to the use of Leopard only technologies.
  • Like KGTD, OmniFocus will support syncing with portable devices through iCal.
  • OmniFocus will be fully applescriptable.
  • Future versions will support integration with OmniPlan.
  • Future versions will support universal action creation from other applications (such as turning an email message or iCal to-do into an action).
  • Future versions will support attaching or tying of files to actions and projects.
  • OmniGroup is planning to release OmniFocus within the next few months.

Tags: gtd, kinkless, omnifocus, omnioutliner

Filed under: Software, Productivity, Internet Tools

Hawk Wings lists 10 Mac OS X tools for Getting Things Done

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Jul 15th, 2006

Tim Gaden at Hawk Wings has compiled a list of ten Mac OS X tools that can help you implement the Getting Things Done philosophy in the way you work. The tools are broken down into three categories: email clients, dedicated GTD apps and web-based solutions for that ultimate cross-platform effect.

Mail.app, of course, starts off the list. Once combined with a few Smart Folders and the powerful Mail Act-on and MailTags plugins, Mail.app can become a most powerful GTD tool indeed. Other featured tools include kGTD (an OmniOutliner Pro template), a Todo.txt script for the ultimate in plain-text GTD, EasyTask Manaager (a stand-alone app without the GTD learning curve), iCommit (a web-based PHP tool), Backpack, Gmail and even wikis.

Check out Hawk Wings' list for more ideas and tools to help you, well, get things done.

Tags: backpack, getting things done, GettingThingsDone, gmail, gtd, hawk wings, HawkWings, icommit, information, kgtd, mail, mail act-on, mail.app, MailAct-on, mailtags, manage, management, omnioutliner, organized, tim gaden, TimGaden

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The Omni Group hints at new product

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on May 28th, 2006


The Omni Group has begun hinting at a new product on their blog by offering clues on their blog as to what it is not. In posts like A trickling of inklings, they have let us know things like the product's sub-$20 price, that it is not a replacement for Mail and that it has nothing to do with the iPod. They also have plainly stated that they have other new products and updates for existing products planned for 2006. This should be good news for those of you who (like me) are fans of their excellent offerings like OmniGiraffe OmniGraffle and OmniOutliner. Here's hoping they don't keep us in suspense for too long.



Tags: app, application, apps, blog, hint, hints, Omni Group, Omni Mouth, OmniGraffle, OmniGroup, OmniMouth, OmniOutliner, products, software

Filed under: Software, Productivity

OmniOutliner, OmniOutliner Pro 3.6 released

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on May 4th, 2006

The Omni Group has finalized version 3.6 of OmniOutliner and OmniOutliner Pro, their "amazingly flexible program for creating, collecting, and organizing information." The final version itself doesn't usher in any mind-blowing new features aside from the built-in help being fully localized, but check out their release notes for all the new features they rolled out in previous 3.6 beta releases if you haven't been keeping up.

Version 3.6 is a free upgrade for existing 3.0 customers, and is available from the Omni Group's site.

Tags: collect, ideas, information, note, note taking, NoteTaking, OmniOutliner, organize, organizer, organizing, thoughts

Filed under: Books and Blogs

The Omni Group has a blog

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Apr 6th, 2006


The Omni Group has an Omni Mouth - their new blog, that is. Developers of such fantastic apps as OmniOutliner and OmniGraffle, The Omni Group is joining the ranks of software houses with blogs who want to offer up some insight into being developers, as well as thoughts on the more humorous side of their business. One post dated yesterday presents a statement from their CEO on the ground-breaking Boot Camp announcement and what it means to their app development, while another post transcribes some of the more unusual phrases heard from their support room such as: “Bananaphone," “OMG I’M IN UR BASE KILLING UR DOODZ” and, of course, “There’s a new Strong Bad email.”

While it probably won't be the hottest place to find the latest Mac-related news and juicy tidbits (*ahem*), it should be a good blog to add to your newsreader if you're curious about the inner workings of one of Mac OS X's most prominent and well-known developers.

Tags: blog, developer, developers, development, humor, Omni Group, Omni Mouth, OmniGraffle, OmniGroup, OmniMouth, OmniOutliner, OmniWeb, thoughts

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Omnigroup releases free Intel updates

by Dave Caolo (RSS feed) on Jan 11th, 2006

Hot on the heels of yesterday's announcements, The Omnigroup has released free universal binary updates for registered users of the majority of their applications, including OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner, OmniDiskSweeper, OmniObjectMeter and OmniDictionary. These will all run natively on the new Intel-based iMac and the MacBook Pro. Grab your copies now for that sweet new MacBook Pro you just ordered.

Tags: imac, macbook pro, MacbookPro, mactel, omnidictionary, omnidisksweeper, omnigraffle, omnigroup, omniobjectmeter, omnioutliner, universal binary, UniversalBinary

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