Useful, but lame

The document is completely mangled on every export option except for HTML. It’s lame to zip up an html folder to share with my colleagues, which I have to provide with instructions “Ok, unzip the archine, and open index.html in a web browser”.

I have to manually set the style with the function keys every time I create a new line -> obnoxious.

Custom columns are cool, might upgrade to Pro to get AppleScript support, but completely off the table until the wierdness gets fixed. Right now, the best option for export is to print to PDF and save, but even that is slightly janky.

I have to manually set the style every time I make a new line, which is a little ridiculous—shouldn’t it automatically recognize, for example, that one tab indent is a heading 2 style, two tab indents are a heading 3 style, etc? Isn’t the whole purpose of this app to automate stuff like this for you? I’ve tried using the inspector and attaching ‘included styles’ to ‘styles’, which doesn’t make any sense to begin with, and it’s still not working. For example, why would you attach a style of ‘heading 1’ to another style of ‘heading 2’? It doesn’t make sense->Chewbacca.

I’m using the default orange ‘Welcome to Outliner’ document for all of my outlines since all of the templates are pretty lame.

So, all in all, quite lame, but I still use it.

seymour budtz about OmniOutliner