Welcome to OmniOutliner 2.3 for iOS!

That’s right folks, we said OmniOutliner 2.3 for iOS! Since we last met, your friends at The Omni Group have been busy working on Universal versions for all of our apps. If you have an iPhone, iPad, iPad mini, or iPod touch (5th Generation) that runs iOS 8 or higher, then your day just got a zillion times better.

When Apple introduced the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, we knew it was finally time to bring all of our iOS apps to the larger iPhone screens. Optimized and redesigned for iOS 8, OmniOutliner 2.3 has a bunch of new features to make outlining even easier. If you’ve been a long-time OmniOutliner user, it won’t take long before you notice some of these changes:

• Outline View — The outline view now freely scrolls, so the outline column can be scrolled off the screen.
• Images — Image attachments automatically scale to fit the width of the column.
• Outline View — The indentation amount for rows now scales with the zoom level.
• New Templates — Additional templates used in OmniOutliner 4 for Mac have been added.
• Appearance — The app icon and file browser have been redesigned.
• TextExpander support — For all your text expanding needs! If you have TextExpander installed on your device, open Settings from the gear menu in the document browser to update your snippets.
• Row linking — Row links created in OmniOutliner 4 for Mac will function for jumping to other sections of the document.
• Style theming — Have one document that you wished looked like another? Turn that other document into a template and apply it to any file you would like.
• External keyboard support — Outline faster! Navigate around your document, rearrange rows, and add new content, all without touching the screen. If you use OmniOutliner for the Mac, you will already be familiar with all these shortcuts.
• Export formats — Finished with the outlining portion of your project? Export your data to a word processing app using the DOCX format for the next phase. Need to switch to a spreadsheet app? Send your data over in CSV format.
• Search — In-document searching has been moved to be a top level item in the toolbar for easier access.
• AirDrop — Easily AirDrop files between iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite (v10.10) clients.
• Templates — When you create a new document, you are presented with a list of available templates which you can start from. Easily turn an existing document into a template or create one from scratch.
• Folders — Have a lot of outlines on your iPhone or iPad? Organize them with folders, and if you’re syncing with OmniPresence, the same folders and files are visible on your other iOS devices and Mac.

For a complete list of changes we’ve made in OmniOutliner for iOS, be sure to read the Release Notes by tapping the Gear icon in the toolbar and choosing Release Notes from the list of options. You can also find OmniOutliner for iOS’s release notes on our Support website.

Created with love,
The Omni Group

How This Documentation is Organized

This wonderful manual that you have before you (either in OmniOutliner itself, online, or in iBooks on your Mac or iOS device—or both) has been assembled in such a way that you’re provided with a complete tour of OmniOutliner.

You’ll start out with an overview of OmniOutliner’s interface. Don’t skip over this chapter, as you’ll find many nuggets of information and fine details about OmniOutliner that you might otherwise miss. And, if you do decide to skip this chapter and later find yourself wondering, “Hey, what’s that doohickey do?”, you can always come back here to discover what it’s all about.

To help guide you through the documentation and better learn all the things you need to know about OmniOutliner, here’s a list of all of the chapters in this book:

Chapter 1, A Quick Tour of OmniOutliner 2.3

This brief chapter provides you with a quick overview of OmniOutliner 2.3’s user interface. Not sure what a certain button does? This chapter is your guide to the basics.

Chapter 2, Adding a Cloud Account

Whether you’ve just started using OmniOutliner for iOS, or if you’ve been using it alongside OmniOutliner for Mac, it’s important for you to keep a backup of your outlines in the cloud. OmniOutliner uses our own cloud service to synchronize files with your free Omni Sync Server account or to another WebDAV server of your choosing. Once synchronized, you can access your outlines in OmniOutliner on any iOS 8-compatible device or on your Mac (if you’ve purchased OmniOutliner for Mac). It’s pretty cool; you should check it out.

This chapter walks you through the process of setting up a cloud account in OmniOutliner for iOS and discusses how get the best performance out of Omni Sync Server.

Chapter 3, Managing Files with the Document Browser

Since OmniOutliner is a document-based application, you’ll need a way to manage the outlines on your devices. This chapter provides an overview of the Document Browser, which is what you use to manage the outlines you create with OmniOutliner.

Chapter 4, Creating a New OmniOutliner Document

If you need to learn the basics of using OmniOutliner, this chapter is for you. This chapter takes you—step-by-step—through the process of creating a new outline in OmniOutliner.

Chapter 5, Working with Templates and Styles

Following on the heels of the previous chapter, here you’re taken deeper still into OmniOutliner’s style model. You will create a new outline for use in building your own template that you can apply as a theme to the outlines you create.

Chapter 6, Importing from an Older Version of OmniOutliner for iPad

If you have the original version of OmniOutliner for iPad (version 1.x), this chapter guides you through the process of using iTunes 12 to transfer your OmniOutliner files for use with OmniOutliner for iOS.

Chapter 7, Keyboard Shortcuts

If you have used OmniOutliner for Mac, you know just how essential keyboard shortcuts are to making your outline work move along swiftly. You will be happy to know that we have brought most of OmniOutliner for Mac’s keyboard shortcuts over to OmniOutliner for iOS. So drag out that Bluetooth keyboard and get it paired with your favorite iOS device, and then check out this chapter.

Chapter 8, Getting Help

There’s no shame in admitting that you need help. In fact, that’s what we’re here for. If you ever get stuck when working on something in OmniOutliner, or if you have a problem with the app’s license, or you just want to tell our Support Humans and the DocWranglers what an awesome job they’re doing, feel free to get in touch. This chapter points you to all of the resources we have available: Support Humans, Support Articles, Videos, and Documentation.

Using This Book

One of the beauties of having OmniOutliner’s documentation available in electronic form is that it’s always available whenever you need it. We have put all of the documentation on our website where it can be searched, bookmarked, and printed (either to paper or saved as a PDF). And we’re continuing the ongoing trend of creating EPUB versions of the documentation and making them freely available on the iBooks Store.

Tell Us What You Think

We’re constantly working on updates for our documentation. Whether it’s CSS work, correcting the occasional typo (yeah, they do sometimes slip through), or adding details or clarification for a specific feature based on something we’ve heard from a customer, we’re always trying to make our documentation better and more useful for you.

If you have any specific comments you’d like to send us about the documentation, please do. You can drop us an email message via our Support queue, or you can ping us on Twitter; we’re @OmniWranglers.

Finally, we’d like to thank you for taking the time to read the docs.