OmniOutliner is an excellent note taking and organizational tool that will appeal to students and organizers at all levels.Īuto Save and Versions, never worry about forgetting to save again! Lion's automatic saving and document versioning is fully supported. One minor drawback is that there is no PDF export support - only RTF export - but this can be easily solved by clicking Print to PDF from the Print Preferences instead. You can also link directly to websites and online data if you have an internet connection. Linking is dynamic so that clicking one is similar to clicking a web hyperlink to an idea. Templates enable you to simply fill in the information and notes during lectures and link them easily. Sometimes I writing a document first in Scrivener and then update OmniOutliner, at times it works in reverse, particularly when I don’t feel like writing but I feel like tweeking the overall development of the Ph.D structure.For students taking notes in lectures, OmniOutliner is particularly useful. The outline reflects the documents I have in Scrivener. For me it is a linear mind map or flow chart and keeps me focused on my writing and the topics I need to cover. So Omnioutliner provides a quick snapshot of where my thoughts and writing are headed.

All of my research notes are done in Devonthink, and my actual writing is in Scrivener. The beauty of Omnioutliner is that for me, it limits me to using the outliner format for headings only. conclusions and recommendations.ĭuring this literature review phase, many ideas come and go and I have been using OmniOutliner to track these thoughts to work on as possible inclusions. The structure of the final Ph.D will likely follow the format of 1. I have been using OmniOutliner for a little while now to structure my Ph.D.

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