Customer Reviews

Omnioutliner Pro 3.0 (Mac)

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I purchased OmniOutliner 3 to prepare outline notes for five 1-hour seminars and so far it's OK, but not great. The first time I used it, the program did what I expected and provided an outline format with the standard letters and numbers, but the next time, it defaulted to no numbering or lettering for the sections and subsections. I had to set them up one by one. That made the outliner a bit of a pain to use. Perhaps there's a way to do that, but no "Quick Start Guide" came with the software to explain the basics of outline setup and use.

I also found the default font very small and had to increase it to 20 points before it became readable to my "old" eyes. The font sizes given in the outliner do not match those you find in a normal word-processor. The outliner 20-point font comes close to 12- or 14-point type in a "real" document.

I wanted to select several sections of text to use color to emphasize key points, but Omnioutliner lets users choose only one contiguous section at a time. That makes for a lot of work. The drag and drop does not work. If you want to move text to an area below the bottom of the Omnioutliner window, the window does not scroll up. Parts of some menus are in a foreign language, Spanish, perhaps? If you paste a URL into OmniOutliner, you get a hot link. The software lacks a way to include a complete URL as text rather than as a link. I want to copy from OmniOutliner and paste URLs in PowerPoint or Keynote, but that appears impossible. For now I'll use this software but have my eyes out for something with better basic capabilities.