Unable to drop my infatuation with the Omni Group, I started a thread months ago in the Omni Forums pleading my case for OmniOutliner on my iPhone. While the Omni gang has been mum on this point, the thread has slowly grown with additional apostles. The most recent advocate, random1destiny, gave an excellent tip for viewing current OmniOutliner files on your iPhone.
For everyone else, until the OO iPhone app comes out, a good view-only solution I found is to buy the Files iphone app which lets you upload any type of file. Then export your OO file as HTML(Unordered List) and transfer and view it using Files. This results in a fairly readable copy that you can keep on your iPhone.
Why didn’t I think of that?
It is high time to get OO on the iPhone! I moved to OmniFocus and it is too complex for 99% of the functions I want to perform — clear, collapsible lists. C’mon guys, get with it!
I just want to toss in a hearty Here Here and add my voice to those who think OO for the iPhone (with Mac sync-ing please!) would really hit a sweet spot. I would live there.
Adding my darn skippy here! A .mac aware or preferably webdav aware OO publish function that I could push and pull from both laptop and iphone would would make my year. OO is the only that that has EVER worked to keep my organized.
It seems that OmniGroup no longer considers iPhone a legitimate target platform. Word on the street is that the OmniFocus team, once seeing their massive attention to detail and development effort realized on iPhone, concluded one of two things:
1) They had achieved nirvana. There was no point of writing another app. Ever.
2) They could not bear the thought of forging another iPhone app with OO.
3) They feared being the BetaMax to the ever-growing slate of VHS offerings of the hierarchical iPhone list apps out there.
In all cases, the development team members committed suicide.
So, give up, enthusiasts. It’s no use. OmniGroup doesn’t have the talent remaining to produce an elegant, sleek, and lightweight OmniOutliner for iPhone. Do you, OG?
I dare you to prove the growing group of naysayers wrong.
Consider it a “love dare” for the iPhone.