It does seem a pity that neither Agenda nor Ecco found a sustainable niche ...

I don't think that the public is stupid, or radically averse to learning, but I do think that en masse it may prefer comfort to adventure :-)

(We have certainly bred wolves into dogs, which, like all other domesticated species, have significantly smaller average cranial capacities than their ancestral populations. Perhaps the same logic is at work in software ... )

For the moment, however, there are at least scripts which yield reasonably powerful filtering in OmniOutliner:

http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=16396

http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthre...ghlight=filter

But only in the Mac ecosystem - we are all being herded tamely towards a more iOS-like world - more comfort and less power again .... So perhaps one day we will all be lamenting the passing of user scripting ...

(I had better not venture a thought about what the "i" stands for in iOS ... :-)