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Medium-time Experience with OmniOutliner (as Circus Ponies Notebook replacement)

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“Leap and the net will appear.” John Burroughs I’ve tried out OmniOutliner as a Circus Ponies Notebook (CPN) replacement for a couple of months now. So far, it works okay-ish to fine. I still miss the handbook style of CPN. The ability to have all information on one topic in one file that still loads fast was great. Plus the natural structure. But that’s gone. (And to be honest, there was a scary bug that destroyed info on a page without giving you any information.) But OmniOutliner is a good replacement. Writing You can easily use outlines to plan your writing. I still like the style with one content column and a source column. If you store your information in topic outlines (essentially, all information about one topic in one outline, incl. the source information) you can quickly create new writings. Think of it as having the bones in the storage to create a new skeleton for text — later you just add the fleshed out text. You can also expand hierarchical outlines only to those levels you actually want to use. Topic Outlines Still looking for the best way to store information about topics in outlines. Works well when [...]

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