Introduction
If you’ve read through OmniOutliner’s in-app help (Help ▸ OmniOutliner Help), you’ve had a chance to absorb all the fine details about OmniOutliner. You saw how the sidebar and inspectors work, how you could tweak OmniOutliner’s preferences, and more. Now it’s time to put all of that new-found logic to the test.
This hands-on tutorial takes you through the process of creating your first OmniOutliner document. Along the way, you’ll learn how to create a custom template (or theme) that you can later use on the documents you create.
You’ll learn some of the basic mechanics of OmniOutliner: how to enter text, move around, and ways to organize your content. Following that, you’ll dive in deeper to take a closer look at OmniOutliner’s layering and style model as you build out the styles for your own template.
By the time you’ve reached the end of the tutorial, you’ll have mastered OmniOutliner and should be able to create templates and styles with, well, style.
Let’s get started!
Get the EPUB
Our preferred method of delivering the Help docs is via the iBooks Store in EPUB format. The documentation there is the same documentation you’ll find on our website and bundled within the app.
The advantage of downloading the Working in OmniOutliner from the iBooks Store is that whenever we update the docs for a new version of OmniOutliner, you’ll receive a notification in iBooks telling you that there’s an update waiting for you. And the big win of EPUB over PDF is that any notations or bookmarks you make in the book carry forward to new versions of the documentation.
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.
