Glossary

App Menu: The App Menu contains information to help you get the most out of OmniOutliner and settings for customizing your OmniOutliner experience. Tap in the toolbar on the Locations Screen or when viewing the contents of a folder in the Document Browser to access it. See The App Menu for more details.
Contextual Menus: Since iOS doesn't have a menu structure similar to macOS, OmniOutliner uses contextual menus to provide a method of interacting with the user interface. Where available, contextual menus appear when you touch and hold on an object and then release your finger. Contextual menus appear as a black bar—with menu options specific to the object or interface element you have tapped.; If a contextual menu has additional options, you will see an arrow on the right edge of the menu; tap to reveal the additional menu options. After scrolling the menu to the right, a appears on the left edge of the contextual menu so you can scroll back to the previous set of options.
Document: OmniOutliner 3 Essentials for iOS creates one primary document type: Outlines (with the file extension .ooutline). These represent hierarchically structured writing or other data.; Templates (with the file extension .otemplate) are the other type used by OmniOutliner, which store style presets or other document attributes you might frequently reuse. (OmniOutliner Essentials comes with a variety of built-in templates, and you can use OmniOutliner Pro to create your own.); OmniOutliner can also open and export other document types.
Document Browser: The file browser that OmniOutliner uses to help you manage OmniOutliner outlines. The document browser also provides access to files stored on your device, files in the cloud (via the iOS Files app), and files synced with OmniPresence to Omni Sync Server or a WebDAV server.
Drag & Drop: Introduced with iOS 11, Drag & Drop is a system-level function that’s integrated with OmniOutliner and other apps on iOS. You can drag into OmniOutliner from the Files app and other apps, reorder items in the outline, as well as drag rows or selected text from an open OmniOutliner file to other apps on your device.
Files: The Files app, introduced with iOS 11, offers a way to access files in local app directories, as well as those in the cloud. You can copy files to the local app directory, tap OmniOutliner files to open them in OmniOutliner, and also drag from OmniOutliner into the Files app.
Inspector: The inspector is a sidebar with controls for setting up the appearance of your document.
Keyboard Shortcut: A set of keys pressed to invoke a menu command, available when a Bluetooth keyboard is paired with your device. Press and hold command (⌘) to see a list of shortcuts available from your current location in the app.
Outline: A document with one or more rows. Outline rows can be nested hierarchically and easily reordered by touching and holding their row handles and dragging them to another location in the document.
Template: An OmniOutliner file type that contains the base settings such as the row styles or background colors used when creating a OmniOutliner outline. Templates can also include outline content, which is used as the basis for documents newly created using the template chooser. (Templates applied to existing documents do not add this outline content.)
Toolbar: The region along the top of the document browser (and outline, when editing a document) is the toolbar. The toolbar contains controls for adding to and modifying the content of the current view—whether adding new documents in the document browser, navigating to other file locations, or editing the contents of an outline.