Custom Graphics but Inflexible Usabilty

This app is beautiful and it’s format logical until you begin to work with it. You find out that the toolbar cannot be customized and that files must be located on the cmputer in cryptic locations for the database to even find the files let along sync and back-up. Most curiously, there are several GUI anomalies such as the entire word processing bar vanishing and new tabs often leave gaps and produce two notebooks with the same name in the sidebar.

Further, you cannot change the names of the Notebooks because it literally reverts back to the name stored in the Finder. If you change the name in the Finder, the file vanishes form the sidebar. When you create a Notebook, you have to tell the app where you want the notebook to go straight away, whether to a Cloud option or that cryptic place on the Finder. Not choosing matters when you want to deal with it later and cannot find it or sync it because some notebooks are in the Finder and the others are in the Cloud!

When I manually dragged the Notebook files in the ‘OneDrive’ Finder folder (why there?) to my iCloud folder, the Notebooks vanished from the Sidebar! This means that all management is expected to be handles automatically within the app, but the app fails to do this and customization is the Mac ethos. I get the feeling that this is PS coding poorly integrated into Mac OS?

Today after a couple of months of non use and hoping they get things sroted out, I saw an email that version 3.7 is availble. Really? Where? Ohhh, for the iPad only. It’s always like that. Beautiful content with some vital piece of information missing. I could go on. It’s very frustrating. I really want this app to work.

WalkinLA about Outline: Knowledge Organizer