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"Each update to The Omni Group's OmniGraffle improves the chart-drawing application by leaps and bounds. And the recently released OmniGraffle 3.0.1 Professional is the picture of a specialty program hitting its stride. ... - this app is marching boldly into the future of diagramming in OS X."

"OmniGraffle is stunning. OmniGraffle is easy to work with and use. OmniGraffle is one of the most functionally superb applications I have ever used on either platform.

Does it sound I like this program? I love this program! I've done Website design work for many years and I do not know how I made it without using the powerful designing, diagraming, and charting tools that are in OmniGraffle. I cannot believe the functions that are available from OmniGraffle, or the uses that it has. I've been playing around with it, laying out websites with it, planning my next office design with it, laying out my backyard plantings with it, setting up a poster for my Daughter with it, redesigning my business invoices with it, well you get the idea. I have not found an end to what I can do with OmniGraffle."

"OmniGraffle has gone from strength to strength. I use it for mocking up web page designs, making complex information architecture drawings and even creating promotional brochures. ...I consider OmniGraffle one of the key arrows in my software quiver."

I can not begin to adequately express my consummate bliss of having discovered Omnigraffle. It is unsurpassed by any other software of its nature, on either Macintosh or PC.

I am elated to have learned that Omnigraffle not only supercedes its competitors--it annihilates them. It offers unprecedented efficiency, productivity features, and common-task intelligence. You have produced an astonishing slice of bliss, and I hope you are thoroughly proud of yourselves.

Your guiding light actually saved me from a fate worse than death - having to move over to Visio!

This is great software. ...for this network designer/developer, there is NOTHING better than OmniGraffle.

I use this application just for fun, it's extremely easy to use, and fun to play with.

I like the changes made between versions 2 and 3. Instead of the feature creep and bloat that sometimes plague new versions of other programs, OmiGraffle has only become better and easier. A solid OS X App and a great example of Cocoa programming. Nicely done OmniGroup!

• Have you been a longtime Mac fan? How do you typically use your Mac in your home or business?
• What do you use OmniGraffle for?
• Which OmniGraffle features are most important to you, and why?
• How would you describe OmniGraffle to other people?

I've been using Macs since 1986. At home, I'll typically be using Eudora, OmniWeb and Fire for IM. OmniGraffle will of course be open. Most recently I've used it to keep track of how my TiVo, satellite, TV and stereo are hooked together, as well as furniture layout and my maps for planning imminent world domination. At work, I have to use with my PowerBook on the sly, but I'll generally utilize OmniGraffle for diagramming storage networks, competitive analysis (I like Venn diagrams) and keeping track of software interop matrices. I'll typically lay out the diagram in OmniGraffle and then finalize/release it in Visio or Illustrator for final consumption and distribution. I like the simplicity of laying things out in OmniGraffle. The mouseless editing and single key action keys simply let me get things done more quickly. Plus things just look good -- the UI is a much more pleasant work environment than the alternatives. (I get depressed when I work in Visio.) How would I describe OmniGraffle? Aside from sticking your tongue into the Firewire port, it's the quickest way to get something from your head into the computer. You spend your time working on the idea, not fighting the software.

I've been a "fan" of the Mac since the mid-90's, so about 10 years. Before then I had heard of them but hadn't "had the pleasure", so to speak! I use a Mac with OS X at home as a workstation for pretty much all my "client side" activity: reading email, browsing the Web, creating documents (graphics, word-processing, etc), and playing BZFlag.[1] The "server side" (file serving, mail server, and umpteen others) of things is handled by i386 systems running Debian Linux[2] and OpenBSD[3]. I have also used Macs at work in the past where they had proven to be more reliable workstations than anything else at the time.

I don't use OmniGraffle to do extraordinary things, only very ordinary things. I know other people have performed all sorts of miracles with it. My successes so far have been network diagramming, some simple road maps, and a very poor attempt at planning a new layout for our garden. The neatest thing for me that I have been able to do in OmniGraffle so far is quick and understandable diagrams to explain the flow of information and distribution of tasks (aka "stuff") in the planning stages of software projects. It's all very well to have some stuff scribbled on paper with "magic happens here" in the middle of it, but with OmniGraffle it's easy to adjust the connections between things and add new objects to the diagram. That makes it much better for me than the old paper method! I've also occasionally seen things - like a flow chart on a web site - and thought "that could look so much better", so I've reproduced it in OmniGraffle as an exercise. There are a couple I've been meaning to finish off and submit to the web sites that the originals are published on, but I haven't done that yet ...

A lot of my favourite features are new things in version 3. The millions of little inspector windows, having them be able to be grouped together or individually torn off and put where they're needed, that's really cool. Being able to copy the style from an object (colours, gradient, fill, stroke, text formatting, etc etc etc) and then apply it ("paste") onto other objects is something that, by rights, should be able to do in every application. OmniGraffle is I think the first program I've used that has this wonderful feature though. Certainly the first diagramming app to do it! Very useful indeed. Another feature of OmniGraffle I like is the stencils - there are premade objects that you can just drag into your documents, which saves a lot of time (especially if you're not terribly creative).

I would say that OmniGraffle is my friend. =) It is an intuitive, exciting tool that deserves to be looked at for your diagramming and charting needs on Mac OS X! Now go and download it, before you're subjected to some REAL marketing.

I've always used a Mac as my primary computer, I've never really felt comfortable using anything else. When I was in high school I saved all my money from a summer job and bought a refurbished Macintosh running OS 6. 13 years later and I'm still buying them.

I use a Mac at home and at work. There is a really blurry line between what I consider a home or a work task. I generally sync my two machines 2 times a day (when I commute) and continue to 'work' after I arrive home in the evenings.

I do a fair amount of Information Design / Information Architecture work and OmniGraffle is a wonderful tool for planning and organizing this type of work. I have also used OmniGraffle for working out some data visualization problems -- it's applescript interface is very useful for this.

OmniGraffle is a diagramming tool. A visual thinker's outliner. Beyond that, I would just have to show them 2 boxes with a connecting line -- and then move one of the boxes. That little demonstration usually works.