Best of all, with “folded” editing-where you see only one line of all your multiline topics, except for the topic you are editing-and the display of all your outline’s section titles in the utilities drawer, the Pro version lets you see both the forest and a bit of each tree at the same time, which is precisely the perspective that an outlining program is supposed to provide. OmniOutliner Pro offers a couple different but overlapping approaches to formatting with styles, which may be a bit confusing at first, but once you figure it out, formatting with styles gives you granular control over the display of your outline.

OmniOutliner 3 Professional improves on OmniOutliner 2’s support for AppleScript and multicolumn outlining and adds a lot, including the ability to display multimedia files directly in the document batch find better printing support for inline notes (previous versions only displayed notes in a separate pane) and support for named styles similar to a word processor’s styles. The Professional edition adds some very useful features, such as folded editing, the ability to view outline sections in the drawer, and Microsoft Word export. Mac OS X users have a variety of excellent outliners and idea organizers to choose from, but The Omni Group takes the lead in this highly competitive field with the release of OmniOutliner Professional, a turbo-charged edition of version 3 of OmniOutliner.

Omnioutliner review 2016