OmniOutliner vs Tao (just a few newbie comments)

[Doug Lerner]

I am still trying out OmniOutliner and also stumbled across a product  
called Tao. The name caught my attention because my beloved dog, also  
named Tao, passed away a couple of months ago at age 14 years 2 mos.

Tao looks truly amazing. It has zillions of features and options and  
settings.

And I can't get it to do anything. :)

I can't even figure out consistently which menu to use to change a font!

OmniOutliner seems to have many less features than Tao. But it is  
really easy to use and looks nice out-of-the-box. Tao's HTML export  
works better, it seems. But on the other hand it is almost impossible  
(for me anyway) to set up the outline to look anywhere near as nice  
as OmniOutliner.

I think I will stick with OmniOutliner, but I hope that they improve  
the export functionality (I've sent some notes on this).

Also Tao has this convenient feature called "cloning" which looks  
useful for sections that need to be cross-filed. Tao seems to be done  
by a single developer, so I bet the whole Omni group could catch up  
feature-wise if they wanted to and still keep OO's great look and  
feel! (^^


doug