ATPO Articles, OO's Future?

[James Moore]

The recent ATPM article has highlighted what appear to be Outliner's 
most-requested features.

* the ability to attach or link outside files
* the ability to create internal links between outliner data points.

I can tell you that the first one is being worked on for Outliner 3. I 
don't know the status of the second.

Right now Outliner is getting a lot of attention here at Omni and the 
feature-list for 3 is pretty long. Visually we're taking Outliner in 
the same direction as OmniGraffle by employing the floating palettes to 
break up the large set of formatting options that have been added. 
Notes will be inline with the option of viewing them in a separate pane 
like they are now.

Two-way integration with Graffle is in the works too.

Don't hold me to any of this of course. Outliner is still very much 
"under construction" and something may not make it into 3.0.

-James

Technical Support Engineer
Omni Group


On Nov 24, 2003, at 12:09 PM, Alexandre Enkerli wrote:

> The author's a member of this list, AFAIK. And he's quite open to 
> other people's ideas, IMHO.
>
> Like people who left comments on the articles, I like the fact that he 
> adopts a broad perspective on outlining, i.e. that there are outliners 
> everywhere, whether they're specialized or not.
>
> Does anyone see anything there that would be obvious additions to OO? 
> James, what did you think of these articles?
> Not necessarily to stir things up too much but the list has been 
> rather quiet in the last few months and with so many new products 
> coming out, it might be a good time to reassess our priorities as 
> users.
>
> Here's my personal position: editing diverse XML files might be the 
> next big thing for outliners and OO's in a good position to do that 
> with its columns and export capabilities. I certainly hope OO goes 
> forward in this direction.
>
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