The Omni Group

I only can say: congratulations. I know how hard you’ve been working, each day, and the result is awesome. This OmniOutliner is a new app, nothing in the App Store has the workflow so easy and clear.

This app is a MUST have if you use your iPad in the school, writing, brainstorming, checklist..

This app works and is fun.

The other side is that once you have it in your iPad you’ll miss it EVERYDAY in your iPhone :-) Maybe next year we could have it on our iPhones.

And the other updates sounds like you have work in progress and many things to do! Forecast in the iPhone! Amazing!! But no review mode, well, next I hope. I miss only the posibility to add a child in a task.

Update in the Omnifocus for Mac! Forecast and review and improve the user experience! Yeah!

The iPad is bringing great stuff to all Mac plataform.

Keep working OmniGroup! Thanks!

I mainly hope that you are working with the webkit mavens to fully implement DHTML.

I have not used a flat, linear “word processor” since I first “got it” using “More” on my 1984 original Mac.

But I don’t want to copy and paste my beautiful hierarchy into a 20th century, flatlander, linear piece of junk.

This needs to be end-to-end, native, open, cross-platform DHTML supported by any browser that can read OmniOutliner output tailored for HTML5.

It’s only then that broad adoption of the outline paradigm will overturn the tyranny of the Flatlanders.

As it stands I’m all alone in totally abandoning the flat paradigm so I have nobody on the receiving end with a copy of an OmniGroup product enabling them to view an elegant outline.

You are therefore nearing a growth ceiling. The general public just don’t get that “the index IS the document and the document IS the index. You should not limit you growth to a public of crusty old “More” evangelists like me.

I firmly trust that you business will expand logarithmically only when DHTML is seen everywhere educating the broad public to the painfully obvious (to us) advantages and elegance of the collapsable hierarchy.

Great on iPad OmniOuliner!! However I’d make the WebKit work priority over everything else you have lined up.

By the way, why doesn’t this feedback page window drag and scroll? I can’t move back up to see the beginning of what I wrote.

All I can say is finally! As a college student, Omnioutliner has become my favorite notetaking and drafting tool. I’ve been periodically checking (every other day) for updates since your Mac Expo video, and reading this makes me very happy. I was actually considering on getting a Macbook Air 11” because I don’t like carrying the heavier Pro around.

I hope the long wait was worth it.

Great news, I’m mostly interested to see the major changes in Omnifocus Mac. I hope the UI get some love also.

I have eben patiently waiting for this and did not go to carbon fin. I tried it out but it’s not what I’m looking for. I want professional software, not something “that works”. So far omnipresent products have satisfied me a lot. More so than any other software I have used and I try a lot. I’m looking forward to outlined to see if it can accomplish one very important task: finally make me start writing my new book.

Could you mention what features from the Mac version will not be in the iPad version?

OH! Good question. Perhaps your sync server will do the job, but I’d love to see Dropbox integration for all the iOS apps!

Thanks for the updates, as usual - keep up the great work.

The teaser has me wet!

SOON, the app I’ve been lusting for since Jobs demoed the iPhone!

I’ve never been so excited for a piece of software! OmniFocus just became the application of this decade. *Wow*.

Guys, you are all wonderful people. Thank you for all of the software over the years and the continued support. You are all fantastic developers.

As has been raised in several previous comments, Dropbox integration is a must. My main disappointment with Omni’s excellent iPad apps to date is that they sync via iDisk rather than Dropbox (OmniFocus excepted from this - your sync server option there is excellent). iDisk is a pretty horrible solution for data syncing, which is why most people have moved on to Dropbox which just works. I find the lack of Dropbox support in apps like OmniGraffle a real stumbling block that make it that much more difficult to jump back and forth between the Mac and iPad versions. It’s much clumsier than it should be.

If you want some inspiration, take a look at how Dropbox has been implemented in iThoughts and iThoughts HD. The developer of those apps has really nailed it. You pull files off of Dropbox and then can synchronize all of your changes within the app on multiple files back to the server. There are visual indications for all of your files within the app to let you know their sync status. To me, that’s how things should be done.

If OmniOutliner is released without Dropbox support, I’ll really have to give it some thought as to whether it’s worth buying. There are so many writing apps now that sync flawlessly, that I’m just not willing to deal with MobileMe (I cancelled my subscription this year - not enough value for the money) or set up my own WebDav server. That just shouldn’t be a requirement in this day and age.

Voop, all the Omni document-based apps read and write to WebDAV as well as iDisk and iTunes document transfer.  You might have a bit of a wait if you want automatic sync of a disk volume, though.

Colum, Keith, Sterling, you should be able to access DropBox via DropDAV, once the DropDAV people get around to fixing their bugs.  The Omni Sync Server works fine with the other Omni apps, and isn’t limited to use with OmniFocus.

Use the Contact Omni feature from the app or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) to get your requests into the development database.

If I may recommend something…you said your team was putting together screenshots etc. In my opinion that should not take that long. Unless you want to wait until apple approved the app I would put up info material asap to keep interest up/raise it while we wait for apple. If you say “we are working on screenshots”, knowing that everybody can take good screenshots in a few minutes and polish them in an hour, then you should, in my opinion, do it. Otherwise it looks odd.

You know… I debated even buying the iPad when it first came out, and ironically, the two apps that were a deal-maker for me were OmniOutliner and OmniPlan. Once I heard that OmniGroup had committed to releasing the entire product line for the iPad, I made the decision to buy it. I was already content and happy with OmniFocus for iPhone, and was still able to use it, so I was quite happy, but eagerly awaiting OmniPlan and OmniOutliner… and yet, these are the last two being released, almost a year later!

I’m not complaining… just very, very eagerly anticipating… :) Keep up the great work guys… try not to dedicate your development efforts to any other platforms so that I won’t be motivated to buy those devices, too…...

One more vote for direct Dropbox integration.  All my other document-related apps have it, I couldn’t live without it, OmniOutliner needs it.