Status of OmniOutliner for Leopard (and zoom)

[Derek Motonaga]

Hi Clint and everyone-

As you probably have just seen, we released the 3.6.4 beta today which  
fixes all critical Leopard issues we're aware of. It does not take  
advantage of any new Leopard feature like QuickLook yet. Ken recently  
posted an update about OO on the forums and here's a copy of that:

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Sorry for the relative quiet on our part! We use OmniOutliner heavily  
ourselves, and we're as eager as you are to see OmniOutliner 4.

Over the past few years, we've done quite a lot of work on the  
OmniOutliner engine as part of the work we've done on OmniPlan and  
OmniFocus, and if you take a close look at those products you'll see  
several of the improvements we're planning to bring back to  
OmniOutliner:
	• Different rows can have different sets of columns. (You can see  
this in OmniFocus if you examine rows which represent different types  
of items, e.g. projects vs. actions.)
	• Columns can be hidden. (Both OmniPlan and OmniFocus support this.)
	• Multiple windows can be opened on the same document. (OmniFocus  
does this.)
	• Views can be filtered based on multiple criteria, and you can print  
your filtered view. (OmniPlan 1.5 does this.)
	• Documents can have multiple saved view perspectives that you can  
quickly select or print. (OmniFocus does this.)
	• Popup columns support "Smart Match" completion for quick keyboard  
input. (OmniFocus does this.)

Of course, we're also giving the UI a facelift, and we're hoping to  
add a few other frequently-requested features as well. (Zoomed  
editing, anyone?)

So, again, let me apologize for the relative quiet on our end! We've  
been busy improving things in the engine, but we still have some work  
to do to make those improvements available to the user.

(And yes, it's also true that we do have a lot of other projects going  
on as well—and this month's release of the iPhone SDK probably won't  
help matters any! If you know any software developers that might be  
interested in working for a small software company in Seattle, please  
send them our way.)
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If you have any further questions, just let  me know!

-- 
Derek M.
OmniOutliner Product Manager
& Support Ninja
The Omni Group

On Feb 6, 2008, at 8:21 AM, Clinton MacDonald wrote:

> Friends:
>
> Now that I have a new MacBook with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, the  
> following questions have arisen:
>
> What is the status of OmniOutliner with respect to Leopard? Does  
> everything work as before? Should we be looking forward to an update  
> that might take advantage of new features of Leopard? And, will this  
> new update have the zoom feature so many of us (okay, mostly me)  
> have been asking for?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Best wishes,
> Clint
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