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1. billo

   04.04.06 10:41 AM

   Omni software pwnz!  kayak.com uses OmniGraffle for all top-secret architectural diagrams, and I use OmniOutliner to prevent my addled brain from getting the better of me.

   
   W00T!

   
   -billo, chief architect, kayak.com

   #1 omni fanboy.

2. Peter Young

   04.04.06 11:48 AM

   G'day Linda and all the ships at sea -

   
   Brilliant use of technology… nice vehicle to communicate with the whim and lattitude that has become you and your gay [meaning happy of course…] band of friends there at Omni.

   
   Ever think about having a contest… maybe call it—> “The Many Things can Be Accomplished Using Omni Software”  I would love to see a page or pages that detail out how peoples [plural form of course] use the products… “ahhhhh - I use it to draw pictures with it…. ahhh its kind'a cool!”  maybe just a bit beyond todals like my “Ralph” example above.

   
   Cheers my friend - say hello to your kid for me -

   
   Peter

3. Matthew Barker

   04.05.06 1:43 AM

   I think “all things omni” may be redundant. 

   In “The Book of Mirdad”, the (possibly fictitious) mystic Mirdad

   spends a chapter giving forth on the Omniwill.  Perhaps there's

   a connection.  When I get a chance, I'll post some excerpts

   for all (omni) to judge.

   
   In any case, is it possible that someone will write a package of

   extensions to OO that will convert it into an e-mail client?  It seems

   like the perfect application framework.  Sort of like all of the emacs

   fanatics who've turned emacs into an everything environment.

   
   Cheers,

   Matthew

4. Linda

   04.05.06 3:09 AM

   Matthew: OmniOutliner, the email client? The mind boggles. Well *my* mind does, anyway. But it doesn't take much for that to happen (hey look! Clouds!).

   
   I'll let the Outliner technical <strike>geeks</strike> folks weigh in on that one.

5. Tim

   04.05.06 3:21 AM

   Never say never, but writing an email client is a ton of work.  Just to get started you have to handle a ton of protocols implemented in various buggy ways by different servers.  Maybe if Apple were to factor Mail.app out into a CoreMail framework that did all the hard stuff for us this would start to become reasonable.

   
   Sooo…. don't hold your breath unless you look good in blue.

6. James

   04.05.06 3:25 AM

   OmniOutliner isn't an application framework per se. To create a mail client we could maybe reuse pieces of OmniOutliner but we would basically e starting from scratch.

7. Andrew Dunning

   04.05.06 4:28 AM

   Personally, I'd rather have my OmniWeb back first.

8. Matthew Barker

   04.05.06 6:09 AM

   It was, in fact, a joke… 

   well, a half-hearted joke.  I figured

   if folks extended emacs as far as they

   did and I've seen linux booting on a

   wristwatch, then why not OO as an application frame-

   work.  Just watch, kGTD is only the

   first step [and a pretty good one too!].

   By giving in to Kinkless,

   the Omni Outliner team sowed the seeds

   of their own destruction.

   
   When I first started using OO, I recall

   reading on the Omni site that some had

   written entire books in OO.  When someone loves their hammer (or any tool)

   that much, they'll find a way to make

   every problem a nail or, more similarly:

   I've used my screwdriver as a pry bar,

   paint stirrer, can opener &, by grasping

   the shank, a hammer.

9. leeg

   04.05.06 7:21 AM

   Tim: “Maybe if Apple were to factor Mail.app out into a CoreMail framework that did all the hard stuff for us this would start to become reasonable.”

   
   Ah, you must mean Pantomime :-)

   http://www.collaboration-world.com/pantomime

10. Aidan

    04.05.06 7:25 AM

    I notice you guys have a TrackBrack URI for each post, but you don't display the trackbacks anywhere (not even in a feed).  'Course, now that I've posted this, the link will magically appear to make me look stupid.  Not that it takes magic to do that.

11. Test Track

    04.05.06 10:26 PM

    Trackback test…

    
    Does this work?

    
    ......

12. David Kasprzyk

    04.06.06 11:03 AM

    A big hello to Linda lady and all the other fun Omni people from here in sunny SoCal!  Linda, Riley is very cute so he needs more pictures than the cat.

    
    Cheers to you all and keep making those slick products I love using!

13. Geof Harries

    04.07.06 6:59 AM

    I second the comment about Omniweb - I'd dearly love to return to OW but the development has been few and far between in the past year. Is this app alive?

14. Tim

    04.07.06 12:11 PM

    OW 5.5 is under development, yup!

15. Andy

    04.09.06 2:44 PM

    I just discovered this blog, cool idea. Now how about putting a forum on the site to replace the mailing list?

16. Home

    04.19.06 2:24 AM

    This is what I was looking for, glad I found it.

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