Outline: Knowledge Organizer

I left Outline a year back for Evernote because they had vague little bugs everywhere, creating tables worked in a different way and the search didn’t function properly. Evernote was a refreshing change, it was fast and robust. However I sorely missed the hierarchical tree organization Outline provides. I came back to Outline and was pleasantly surprised to see that everything seem to work well. And now they have iCloud sync too, not to mention several iOS 9 features on their companion app. The search works flawlessly too. I’m so happy the Outline team have upped their game and truly done themselves proud. Some more advantages that Outline has over Evernote are: it’s a pay once and forget it deal, you own the app forever and all your notes are available offline, with Evernote you either pay them on a monthly basis or you use their free service but you have to be online to view notes and are bugged with occasional nag screens and they put their branding on your notes (at the bottom). Both are excellent products (well, Evernote is a product and a service) - if you want absolute reliability and robustness go with Evernote, the free service is pretty decent and upgrading doesn’t cost too much, though it IS a recurring expense. If you can do with a few minor quirks then go with Outline, it works better everyday and it looks absolutely gorgeous, Outline is a pleasure to work in. A few suggestions: the default “Normal” font size should be user defined, I find the current size too small. It uses over 1 GB on my MacMini even when it’s idling, I appreciate an app jumping to action when I click on it in the dock but a full GB while idling is a bit much, in my opinion. Lastly, the search feature could be improved: when I search for a term I’d first like to see the sections the contain the term listed, and when I click a section it should give me the number of occurences in that section with arrows to navigate to the previous or next occurence, all occurences should be highlighted and the occurence I am currently on should be highlighted in a different color from the rest. This is standard search functionality in all decent editor apps and it needs to be in Outline too. My hats off to the Outline team for the improvements they have made in the last year, they’ve restored my faith in their team and the product. I hope it keeps improving as I suspect it will. Cheers!

With the advent of the Microsoft OneNote app on the OSX platform I think the future of Outline is to move away from the OneNote support and embark on its own. It can function as a full fledged standalone app especially useful for those of us who wouldn’t don't to have a Microsoft account. Needed features : 1. A web clipper like Evernote’s webclipper which has many ways to customize the web clippings including highlighter and simplified article view. 2. Ability to collapse subpages 3. Better formatting tools. The current ones are limited. 4. Internal inking of paragraphs, sentences etc to any other word, paragraph or sentence anywhere else in the app. Instant personal Wiki. 5. Publish to Ibooks, Epubs ? 6. Needs better performance. It is OK for a few dozen notes but from what I see it might stutter when they runs into hundreds and thousands. 7. Tags. Really.

Where is the support for tables?? With an ability to add notes / edit notes, you are though good-enough, but not excellent, while tables are missing !!! Support for adding new tables, edit existing tables imported from Onenote and manage the same is the most important for any note application. Without which, there are other options, such as Evernote, etc for Mac !!!

Sad to say that this application is not working at all with OSX Mavericks.. I just hate it.. this app failed to open a .one file…. Even the tutorials are useless..

This Application is the Best, it works fast, the search feature also works fast. I like the Interface too. I am waiting for the Updates, so that we can write or edit the content. I am sure Outline Team will come up with new updates soon. This App is worth Buying.

Wie kann man so nervig sein? Ein Arbeiten ist nicht möglich, da man aller 10 Sekunden (kein Scherz!!!!) gefragt wird, ob man bewerten will. Egal, ob Ja oder Nein, das Pop Up kommt immer wieder.

Ich habe die App vor einigen Jahren für 22 Euro hier im App Store gekauft. Jetzt habe ich die kostenlose Basic Subscription. Echt super! Vielen Dank, dass meine Investition wertlos gemacht wurde. Ansonsten ist man halt auf macOS, iPadOS und iOS begrenzt. Wer auch Linux oder Windows am Start hat, schaut in die Röhre. Ob es noch den echten Mehrwert gegenüber dem Original OneNote bietet, könnt Ihr ja selbst ausprobieren.

I told myslef. stay away from this company and their software. No need to explain further: a payed version is now not available anymore, and payed functionality are "gone". I don't understand why Apple Store allowes those behaviors without consequences.

Leider werde auch ich, so wie viele andere gerade, davon Abstand nehmen, das Programm zu aktualisieren bzw. irgendwann notgedrungen auch nicht weiter nutzen. Der Funktionsumfang und der Fortschritt der Entwickling des Programms rechtfertigen n. m. Meinung kein Abo. Zur Generierung höherer Einnahmen ist der Schritt aus Sicht der Entwickler natürlich völlig verständlich. Liegt ja im Trend. Prinzipiel war die App bisher aber gut nutzbar. Grüße.

Habe Outline vor Jahren gekauft und war insgesamt zufrieden. Insbesondere die "Export page to pdf" Funktion hat mich überzeugt. Aber es gibt auch einige Nachteile gegenüber OneNote - kein Apple Pen support auf dem iPAD - hier hat OneNote nachgelegt - Tabellenmanagement ist nicht so gut implementiert wie in OneNote und jetzt die Umstellung auf Subscription, für einen Preis pro Jahr bei dem man das komplette Microsoft Office erhält - autsch. Bei 50 US$ per Jahr und Standard ist das Risiko unkalklierbar, dass wichtige jetzt genutzte Features nicht mehr unterstützt oder gepflegt werden. Das ist es mir nicht wert. Ich hätte gerne einen Support und Maintenance Kontrakt abgeschlossen in zB 20% vom Kaufpreis - aber wenn ich jetzt umsteige und dann die Subscription stoppe, dann fliegt mir die Synchronisation um OneNote um die Ohren.... und wer weiss was noch alles.... Schade dass die perpetual Kunden nicht gewertschätzt werden - der Markt wird es wohl regeln....