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Originally Posted by Schlaefer
And no, it's not coverflow, even coverflow presents a preview for a reasonable number of documents left and right to the current, but OO doesn't do that.
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Coverflow as implemented in the Snow Leopard Finder and iTunes 10 shows only the selected item in its entirety (well, the first page), and portions of documents to either side. That's what OmniOutliner does on my iPad (agreed, it doesn't show as many partially obscured documents). As a bonus, I can actually read the displayed document, which I cannot easily do when using Coverflow in the Finder on an 11" MacBook Air. For the approximately 6 dozen outlines on my iPad, the option to sort by date modified or title combined with the scrubber allows me to get to a file quickly if I either recall the name or approximately when I last worked on it. I would have to scroll through the flat list of 70 files, too, so the proposed list seems like it is going to add the most value for finding a file whose name I don't recall but will recognize without seeing the contents. Is there another scenario where the list is a big win that I've overlooked?
I wouldn't mind having a straight list of files to browse, though (and am sending in my request now). I also wouldn't mind if the WebDAV support remembered where I last was in my hierarchy, if it remembered where a file came from, made it easier to keep multiple versions and so on. But I'm glad they concentrated most of the initial effort on what I can do with the document once I actually find it, because a glorious file management experience linked up to the Notes app would be much less useful, I think...and OmniDocumentManagerWithATouchOfOutlining just doesn't roll off the tongue as pleasingly, and is more work to type :)