A few more ideas and questions

[Michael Rose]

Hi,

I've just discovered the very nice cooperation between OmniGraffle and 
OmniOutliner and it has prompted the following thoughts on features I'ld 
like for OmniOutliner (keeping in mind that I totally agree with your 
philosophy of keeping OmniOutliner a simple and focused application that 
plays well with others)...

- a URL column type, so a single click on those column items will open the 
URL.

- attach an AppleScript to an item

- apparently OmniGraffle only imports OmniOutline1 files so far. When it 
correctly imports OmniOutliner2 how will it habdle multiple columns etc?

- it could be an idea for OmniGraffle to provide basic import functionality 
but to provide AppleScripts for more advanced imports, e.g. for ToDo's with 
priority columns I would want to use the priority to change the color  or 
maybe add little shape for each column attached to an item.

- This might be too messy, what about simple roundtripping. If I import an 
outline in OmniGraffle and change text without changing topology can I 
export back to OmniGraffle?

- a simple alternative approach to this might be for OmniOutliner to import 
.graffle files (assuming the .graffle file is hierarchical)

- And a related question for Outliner3.0 - wouldn't it be easier if the 
file format for OmniOutliner were in XML similar to OmniGraffle. It would 
allow XSLT stylesheet transformations etc.

- and finally, a biggie. I'ld be really realy happy if I could link 
outliner items to each other (again, you can see I'm coming from the 
hypermedia/Web/XML world :)


Thanks for listening,

Michael

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