Very pretty, well designed
Version 3.6.2 Upate
**** Update - OneDrive syncing issue resolved - thanks Outline Support *****
The visual designs, layout and colours on the this app and the iPad version are superior to OneNote and designed for the Mac. While the functionality is still not on par with OneNote, the important features are largely there. Version 3.0, through to 3.4 have added signficant features to prior versions (e.g. spell check, printing) and fixed many of the annoying bugs and have improved stability. I strongly prefer the OneNote/Outline style of notes to that of Evernote - however Evernote is also a great app and has some advantages such as web smoother clipping. I use Outline for taking and organizing business notes and combine it with the odd handwritten note from a Livescribe smartpen. The smartpen workflow is clunky but works.
Many of the bugs and key missing features that caused me to rate 3-star in prior versions have been addressed (thanks very much guys). I find it quite stable now and and does not corrupt my Onenote files on Onedrive. I have not used the other sync services but Customer Support suggests they work even better than Onedrive.
Great new features:
- Backup very nicely done - however, restoring backed up notebooks a bit clunky
- Print to Onenote - works extremely well using OS X extensions and looks great. As a next step, I would however prefer if the images (e.g. from Safari) were not set automatically to background. Or even better, make it an option. You can also use Shift-CMD-4 or Shift-CTRL-CMD-4 to capture part of a screen/window and past into your notebooks.
- Note printing - Finally! Enough said.
- Notebook editing - cutting, pasting, moving pages is a lot easier now. No more crashing when inserting text.
- drop down menus cleaned up and consistent with OS X (e.g accessible with ctrl-click)
- Table of contents is a useful addition
A few suggestions (list is getting shorter):
- Coping / moving sections, tabs etc is very limited and not well thought through. This makes managing multiple, large notebooks very challenging.
- Spell check very frustrating to use - when I correct spelling that has been incorrectly changed it should not continue to be changed again and again and again. Please copy how this is done in standard word processing apps (e.g. MS Word) since it works well and is what users are used to.
- should be able to change the order of open notebooks by dragging
- better Livescribe+ integration (not just via OneDrive) if possible
I have found the developer is very receptive to input from the user community and has incorporated almost all of my suggestions over the last few releases. Tech support is also fast to get back to you.
SL_fan about Outline: Knowledge Organizer, v3.6.2
