Struggles w Images
I really want to love you, Omnioutliner, but you struggle when I add images. 😟
Love it
Great customer support as well!
iOS 18.1 problems
It only lets you open one file at a tim with iOS 18.1
Omni Productivity
My senior executive productivity for big projects is super charged with 3 interconnected Omni apps. OmniPlan to plan, map, monitor and update. OmniOutliner to track and identify progress accross multiple metrics. OmniFocus to drive daily focus and effort. In this combination, for me, these Omni apps genrate consistent results and deliver a clear return on my investment in time and money. Thank you The Omni Group.
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Unusable on iphone
Awful user interface makes some columns inaccessible
Highway robbery
Forcing customers to buy an account for each of their devices is outrageous and shows how this company feels about the consumer. Omni wants to gouge its customers, I wish I had known this before buying the desktop version I would have bought something else !
I’m looking for a replacement
Bugs don’t get fixed. Support is minimal. The user interface is horrible. The major advantage is integration between iOS and macOS, however it gets confused about which version is current.
Logical information organzier
We’re using this to create/store information on a hierarchical or branch-like manner. It makes it logical to organise data. Yes, there’s other tools we use like Noto/OneNote, etc. However OmniOutliner is specifically excellent for organising data in structured manner.
huh? another useless app that trips over its own shoelaces? it can’t be!?
dog-sh
having it merely installed completely prevents me from opening ‘.txt’ files in the normal iOS viewing format; upon tapping a ‘.txt’ file the app takes over and says “you actually want to open this in me, don’t you; i’ll go ahead and open this text in a fresh ‘omnioutliner’ doc for you”; app doesn’t even need to be open for this to happen, merely installed is enough; reinstalling the app doesn't even fix it!
can’t format text in any way whatsoever that’s been pasted into a document using the app’s text-formatting options.
frequently fails to recognise selected rows in the ‘inspector’ and so displays “nothing to inspect” when the ‘inspector’ is selected.
text input is laggy.
the point about it overriding iOS’s basic file-viewing systems makes it completely unusable as having the app merely installed completely disables an essential function of the iPad
thank you for wasting my time you lazy money-craving worthless degenerates
having it merely installed completely prevents me from opening ‘.txt’ files in the normal iOS viewing format; upon tapping a ‘.txt’ file the app takes over and says “you actually want to open this in me, don’t you; i’ll go ahead and open this text in a fresh ‘omnioutliner’ doc for you”; app doesn’t even need to be open for this to happen, merely installed is enough; reinstalling the app doesn't even fix it!
can’t format text in any way whatsoever that’s been pasted into a document using the app’s text-formatting options.
frequently fails to recognise selected rows in the ‘inspector’ and so displays “nothing to inspect” when the ‘inspector’ is selected.
text input is laggy.
the point about it overriding iOS’s basic file-viewing systems makes it completely unusable as having the app merely installed completely disables an essential function of the iPad
thank you for wasting my time you lazy money-craving worthless degenerates
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Dear Terry
I am deeply saddened about your behavior
I am deeply saddened about your behavior
Six Stars
This app is amazing and awesome. It got me through graduate school and continues to propel my day-to-day work by helping me organize and track my planning. I wish it were updated more; Omni seems to be on the slow burn with this app, as it hasn’t been firing up the carts in the app store. It’s a shame. I get it. If Omni were to release an OmniOutliner 4 Professional with a monthly subscription, I’d jump on it.
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Avoid for now
Although the Mac app is a solid outliner that I highly recommend, I would avoid the iOS version for now. It is very buggy, and the sync function is weak.
On the bug side, even though I paid for the pro subscription, the text of your outline bleeds off the screen, so that you’re forced to endlessly scroll horizontally to read your outline. This is a known bug that Omni needs to fix before the software becomes truly usable.
Sync is also messed up and constantly forces you to choose from duplicate versions after you use both the iOS and Mac versions, even though you’re only using the iOS version to view your outline, not edit it. Very frustrating and not consistent with Omni’s usual high quality of product.
For sure don’t waste your $50 on a pro subscription until the app is updated to address the bugs. I’ve removed the iOS version from my devices. Instead, I cut and paste my outlines into a Craft note and access them there. (BTW, Craft is a solid outliner with 80% of OmniOutliner’s functionality if you don’t need the most powerful though flawed outline ecosystem.)
Sorry to be critical, Omni developers, because I love the Mac app, but the iOS version really disappointed me.
On the bug side, even though I paid for the pro subscription, the text of your outline bleeds off the screen, so that you’re forced to endlessly scroll horizontally to read your outline. This is a known bug that Omni needs to fix before the software becomes truly usable.
Sync is also messed up and constantly forces you to choose from duplicate versions after you use both the iOS and Mac versions, even though you’re only using the iOS version to view your outline, not edit it. Very frustrating and not consistent with Omni’s usual high quality of product.
For sure don’t waste your $50 on a pro subscription until the app is updated to address the bugs. I’ve removed the iOS version from my devices. Instead, I cut and paste my outlines into a Craft note and access them there. (BTW, Craft is a solid outliner with 80% of OmniOutliner’s functionality if you don’t need the most powerful though flawed outline ecosystem.)
Sorry to be critical, Omni developers, because I love the Mac app, but the iOS version really disappointed me.
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Keeps crashing
Love this app for its clean simplicity but I can’t trust it now as it keeps crashing on my iPad.
Awesome
Would be even better if with apple keyboard in split app mode, tapping on the other app and then back resumed the keyboard editing position (rather than resigning the keyboard).
Where I go to think, plan, organize and write
I never was into outlining before OmniOutliner. In fact, I didn’t even know such software existed, nor how much I would enjoy and benefit from it. The ability to move around my thoughts and notes in a hierarchical way not just helps me organize them, but actually improves the way I can think about them. I was never one for the classroom, but OmniOutliner singlehandedly has made me feel I could be a better student if I ever went back for more graduate studies. Beyond that I love the style settings, the support for extra columns, the ability to record inline, and even the mathematical spreadsheet-like capabilities (which are in a way even better than spreadsheets since you can organize the calculations hierarchically!). This is also a great developer to support. (I have no affiliation with them.) I also personally love OmniFocus and have both it and OmniOutliner on all my Apple devices - in fact, they are the only two pieces of software I have my Mac automatically start when I log in.
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It is such a great outliner
I have used OmniOutliner Pro on the Mac since the early days of OS X.
I’ve been using OmniOutliner Pro on my iPad for a few years.
I think sometimes people overlook OmniOutliner because it has been around for quite a while now. However it is IMHO the best outliner for the iPad as well as the Mac.
The ability to have multiple columns of various types brings enormous power and flexibility. It is just such a great idea and nobody else does it.
Occasionally I try out alternatives but they never seem to be as good as OmniOutliner Pro.
I use this app for so many things, lists for packing stuff for bicycle trips is one example. I have a column for identifying the bag on the bicycle the thing goes into.
I’m in the middle of a really big writing project now and I’m using OmniOutliner Pro on my Mac and iPad for it and it is working out very well.
I’ve been using OmniOutliner Pro on my iPad for a few years.
I think sometimes people overlook OmniOutliner because it has been around for quite a while now. However it is IMHO the best outliner for the iPad as well as the Mac.
The ability to have multiple columns of various types brings enormous power and flexibility. It is just such a great idea and nobody else does it.
Occasionally I try out alternatives but they never seem to be as good as OmniOutliner Pro.
I use this app for so many things, lists for packing stuff for bicycle trips is one example. I have a column for identifying the bag on the bicycle the thing goes into.
I’m in the middle of a really big writing project now and I’m using OmniOutliner Pro on my Mac and iPad for it and it is working out very well.
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Very good - almost
Very useful and I would buy it again. Would give it five stars except one important feature it is missing apparently, is that there is no feature in the app itself to take or access photos directly. You need to take a picture in the other photo app on your phone and then copy paste into this app.
Why do I have to create an account?
I have subscriptions to several Mac and iOS apps that I bought on the App Store, all of which have a free trial period before I was charged the subscription fee. While no other app asked me to create an account, OmniOutliner would not me go past the launch page without first creating an account with Omni or just use the free “viewer” (like I need it if I never used Outliner). One of the reasons most off use buy apps ONLY form Apple’s App Stores is that we do not want to create accounts for every app we purchase. I hope the OmniGroup follow the example of other developers and let users try and purchase an use this app without having to create a separate account with Omni, especially since now it appears that we can sync with iCloud instead of Omni’s own sync server.
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Useful but -
What the hell have you done with the file manager?
Totally spoilt it - sort it out please. You have gone from hero to zero in one update. Well it’s back to carbonfin for me as I absolutely hate the update. This is an overpriced app at best now it’s in my ‘not used’ folder.
Totally spoilt it - sort it out please. You have gone from hero to zero in one update. Well it’s back to carbonfin for me as I absolutely hate the update. This is an overpriced app at best now it’s in my ‘not used’ folder.
Expensive and buggy
Don’t become dependent on this app. For the last few years I’ve dished out money for each upgrade which was supposedly optimized for the latest iOS and hardware. But each new version has gotten buggier and more unstable.
My usage is very simple: public speaking outlines. No fancy stuff. Nevertheless, the most basic functions of the app are frustratingly slow and unintuitive. Several bugs come to the fore during split screen mode. Additional bugs exist in frequently used UI elements, requiring a lot of patience.
It’s like the developers don’t actually test the app in the real world.
Unfortunately, there is nothing close to this app that I’ve found yet. So I’m dependent on it.
My usage is very simple: public speaking outlines. No fancy stuff. Nevertheless, the most basic functions of the app are frustratingly slow and unintuitive. Several bugs come to the fore during split screen mode. Additional bugs exist in frequently used UI elements, requiring a lot of patience.
It’s like the developers don’t actually test the app in the real world.
Unfortunately, there is nothing close to this app that I’ve found yet. So I’m dependent on it.
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