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Originally Posted by DerekM
Sorry there hasn't been any news on this. We do greatly appreciate everyone's interest in this app. We have been strongly considering developing OmniOutliner for the iPhone and we may very well do so in the future. However, right now we are making OmniOutliner 4 our priority.
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Please do! I am totally in love with OmniOutliner and have wished for an iPhone app many, many times.
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1) Do you need multiple columns of data, column types, or the column summary options?
2) Do you need formatting support? Or just plain text like OmniFocus for the iPhone.
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I'm including these together because I don't need them (although they'd both be nice to have if possible), but there are some stipulations to that. Plain text, no-column documents would be fine, as long as:
- the iPhone can read those outlines with rich text and columns, even if it can't edit them
- the iPhone can create a copy of a rich-text, columned OmniOutliner file with no formatting and only information from the first column, and then edit the copy
- and most importantly, when I'm creating and editing files on my Mac, I need to always know for sure whether the file I'm looking at is iPhone editable. I point to Evernote as counterexample - I am never sure when I'm creating a rich-text-free and thus iPhone-editable note until it's on my iPhone. It sucks. It's a huge pain.
Given those requirements, I'd be happy to buy an OmniOutliner iPhone app that has no columns and no rich text support.
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3) Do you need attachment support?
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No.
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4) Should it be a viewer only, or have editing capabilities? If just a viewer only, how well does the Quick Look preview/DHTML export meet your needs? (Viewing the export on the iPhone that is)
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Edit support is very important to me.
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5) What kind of syncing expectations do you have? This would be one big reason why OmniOutliner 4 needs to be developed first as OO3 is not designed for merging synced changes.
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My preferred sync method would be like OmniFocus:
- Documents are stored on the cloud, but the app can use custom servers, not just iDisk default OmniGroup servers.
- I don't want to have to manually upload and download specific documents from the server - I want all of them (or all in a subdirectory) to sync as soon as I open the app on my iPhone. Also, I want them to be cached so that I can use them in airplane mode.
Edit: forgot to mention, I myself do not need advanced conflict resolution within the outline. For me, it would be enough to see that there was a conflict with MyOutline.oo3, and have it create new files MyOutline.iPhone.oo3 and MyOutline.MacBookPro.oo3, or similar. I don't need it to try to open both versions of the outline and see if it can merge my changes. Not that that wouldn't be nice.
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If you have any other specific expectations for the app, please let us know too. Thanks for your feedback and support!
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Not really an "expectation", but including OmniGraffle/OmniGraphSketch read-only support would be pretty rad.
I hope that you will
not make an app like ReaddleDocs or AirSharingPro or ezShare, where nothing is synced automatically. It's great that those apps can read so many different file formats, but thought-free replication of all of my OmniOutliner files (or a subset of them, like all in a certain directory or on a webdav share, etc) would be infinitely better.