I bought my second copy of Omni Outliner at the end of last week, for the desktop. I’ve gotten hooked on the PowerBook, where it came installed, and decided that the endless To Do list in my head needed to be more tangible. Decided is a cover-up for a longer discussion, but let’s leave it there. I did knock off a few checkboxes this weekend, from the mundane task of writing a friend back to the more measurable step of getting some accounts up to date in Quicken. Anyway, Omni is a slick, smooth program, which does more than I use it for, and it was (is?) on sale for $19.95, so if you’re on Mac OS X, I’d encourage a look.
My favorite thoughtful feature of the program is its strong export capabilities, especially to HTML. I’m a huge fan of CSS, but I don’t -write- compliant code except when carried along by templates… like here and in anything I write in Omni Outliner. It also exports OPML and a few others. Some have even started to take advantage of the application’s scriptability to write their own renderers. If you’re really looking for an in-depth comparison of Mac OS X outliners, try this two-part list. I never knew there were so many choices, so my easy choice of Omni Outliner may be more a testament to the power of bundling than anything (but I don’t think so). Anyone know of a similar comparison list for Windows outliners?