Omni Group OmniOutliner User Manual [nl]
OmniOutliner
PRO
Manual
OmniOutliner
PRO
Manual
Version 3.0
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Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
5 Hello!
5 Welcome to OmniOutliner
5 Welcome to This Manual
7 What’s New
7 Interface Improvements
7 Document Improvements
8 Printing Improvements
8 Pro Features
11 Installation
11
How to get OmniOutliner on your Mac so you can start working
13 Let’s Try It
13 Meet the Outliner: an overview of OmniOutliner’s interface
16 Mini-tutorial: Essential Keys
17 Tutorial: Selecting, Moving Around, and Styling
24 Tutorial: Columns, Notes, and Sorting
31 An In-Depth Look
31 Inspectors
37 Toolbar
38 Utility Drawer
40 Particularly Useful Features
43 Preferences
46 Import, Export, Save, Print
Chapter 6
49 Help
49 Try the Online Help
49 Keyboard Commands
50 Further Help
Hello!
Welcome to OmniOutliner
We all have ideas knocking around in our heads. OmniOutliner is for getting
those ideas out into the open where you can see them, shufe them around, neatly
present them, and share them with other people. With it, you can quickly jot down
notes into a list, or you can forge monumental masses of information into shape
with pixel-by-pixel precision.
Hierarchical lists and tables can be used to express nearly any idea you have.
You probably already write them all the time on paper or with word processors
and spreadsheet programs. But OmniOutliner is specically built for list and table
creation, so it’s more powerful than a word processor, while being lighter and
cleaner than a spreadsheet.
OmniOutliner is designed to be fast and simple, so you can jump in, start getting
things done right away, and worry about the intricacies later. But it’s also powerful,
so that once you are ready, you can exert a nearly supernatural level of control
over your data. We’re not kidding; it’s spooky.
Welcome to This Manual
OmniOutliner seems simple at rst, and you can actually use it quite happily
without delving into its innermost features. But then you’d be missing out on much
of the fun. This manual is here to introduce you to some of the things you might
not discover on your own; not everyone is the rash, adventurous type who goes
selecting every menu item just for amusement.
You can refer back to this manual for general guidance and ideas. If you have
a question about a specic detail, try the searchable help les in OmniOutliner’s
Help menu.
What’s New
This is just a list of the most prominent new features; for actual explanations of how
they work, check the appropriate sections of this manual or use OmniOutliner’s
Help menu.
Interface Improvements
• Inspectors
The Info panel has been replaced by ve Inspectors you can arrange around
the screen however you like. They let you control every aspect of your out-
line, from whether you want the le to be compressed on your hard drive,
to setting each letter’s underline to a different color thus making a rainbow
underline, just because you can.
• Batch Find
You can now search your whole outline at once. All of the matching results
will show up in the Utility drawer and update with each letter you type, so you
get results now now NOW.
• Inline Notes
Now you have the option of displaying notes right beneath the items they’re
associated with, rather than in a pane at the bottom of the window. This way
you can see all of your notes without having to select each item in turn, opening up all sorts of new uses for the notes feature.
Document Improvements
• File Attachments
You can now put any kind of le right inside your outline. Images are viewable,
audio and movie les are playable, and any other kind of le will open in the
appropriate application when clicked.
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8 � Document Improvements
• Styles
OmniOutliner 3 has a hugely improved style system with which you can apply
styles on several different levels, with attributes cascading into lower levels.
• Automatic Backup
Your outlines can be automatically backed up at regular intervals, so that you
don’t lose data in the event of a power outage or (horror!) a crash.
Printing Improvements
• Filtering
You can choose to print only certain columns, only checked or unchecked
items, only selected rows, or any combination thereof.
• Scaling
Outlines can be automatically scaled to t within the printed page’s width.
Pro Features
The new Professional edition of OmniOutliner includes these additional features,
as if it weren’t already cool enough.
• Clippings
You can use OmniOutliner as a clipboard by sending useful or interesting text
clippings to it from other applications. Say you’re reading some web page
and you come across a brilliant joke, or a tasty-looking recipe, or a practical
and renewable clean energy source. Just highlight it and use the Services
menu send it to OmniOutliner, where it’ll be stored away in a special outline
of your choice, organized by date.
• Multiple document templates
Create several different document templates that have all of the formatting
and preliminary structure set up just how you like them for different kinds of
work.
Pro Features � 9
• Audio recording
Pro users will nd a Record button in their toolbars, with which audio les
can be recorded and placed right into the outline. Save an audio version of
the lecture you’re taking notes for, hum the melody of the song you’re writing,
or just record your extraordinarily vocal cat’s yowling.
• Named styles
Combine several attributes into custom named styles, then use them across
and between documents.
• Row folding
Multi-line rows can have their text folded into one line until you select them,
compressing your outline down to a more viewable size.
• Microsoft® Word export
Now you can associate with people who use Microsoft Word again.
• Multi-column sorting
The Professional edition can sort items based on values in several different
columns at the same time.
• Headers and footers
You can set up custom headers and footers for your printed outline, with
different settings for the rst page and the rest of the pages. Headers and
footers can contain page numbers, modication dates, and other bits of in-
formation that automatically update themselves as you work.
Installation
1. Mount the Disk
If you have a physical OmniOutliner disk that came in a box, put the disk in
your Mac’s CD or DVD drive. If you have downloaded an OmniOutliner disk
image, double-click it (the .dmg le) to mount it.
2. Copy the Application
Drag the OmniOutliner application icon from the disk into your Applications
folder. This can be the Applications folder in the top level of your hard drive
(so that all users on your Mac can use it) or the one in your home folder (so
that only you can use it).
3. Run OmniOutliner
Double-click OmniOutliner to run it; if this is the rst time you’ve used it,
and you don’t have any licenses installed yet, you’ll see the Licenses dialog.
If you don’t see it, and you want to install a license, select Licenses from the
OmniOutliner menu.
4. Add a License
Click the Add License button. In the sheet that appears, type your name into
the Owner eld, and your license key into the License Key eld. If you bought
OmniOutliner in a physical box, your license key should be printed on the CD
sleeve. If you bought OmniOutliner online, you can copy the license key from
the e-mail receipt into the License Key eld.
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12 � Installation
Choose from the three different types of OmniOutliner licenses:
• A Computer license can be used by you and any other user on your computer. This is the most basic type of license.
• A Personal license can only be used by you, the user who installed it. You
can, however, install and use it on any number of different computers.
• A Network license is for settings such as companies and schools, to allow
a certain number of users on the network to use the software at once.
Once your license key is accepted, click the Save button and you’re set!
Let’s Try It
Meet the Outliner
Sections list
OmniOutliner Pro’s sections list gives you an overview of your outline and a quick
way to focus on one portion of it.
Batch nd
Use the batch nd eld to search your entire outline instantly.
Toolbar
The customizable toolbar. You’ve probably seen this on a lot of ne Mac OS X
applications; it works just as you’d expect.
Ruler
OmniOutliner fully supports Rich Text formatting; use the controls on the ruler to
whip that text into shape.
Sections list
Batch nd
Toolbar
Ruler
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14 � Meet the Outliner
Meet the Outliner
Attachments
Attach les and view them directly from within the outline.
Outline
Your outline can have as many items, columns, and levels of indentation as you
like.
Styles palette
Ah, the styles palette. Set up custom styles based on row, column, and level, or
use OmniOutliner Professional to create your own named styles for use wherever
you like.
Styles palette
Outline
Attachments
Meet the Outliner � 15
Inspectors
Five friendly inspectors contain a cornucopia of controls, and politely go away
when you don’t need them.
Appearance
Row
Column Type
Document
Style Attributes
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