#Omnifocus vs notion mac#
In response to all their feedback and requests, we quickly iterated with version 2-and it was around this time that Phil Schiller discovered OmniOutliner, leading to Apple paying us to bundle OmniOutliner 3 with every Mac as Apple made the transition from PowerPC to Intel.
#Omnifocus vs notion mac os x#
We shipped the first beta of OmniOutliner while Mac OS X was still in beta, and doing so introduced us to a passionate community of outliners who had been using great outlining tools like MORE for over a decade. And, naturally, we started thinking back over OmniOutliner’s long history. So when we started thinking about the direction of OmniOutliner 5 for Mac, the problem of helping people discover and understand the benefits of an outlining tool was very much on our minds. It’s the app I turn to whenever I need to capture a bunch of chaotic, abstract thoughts and put them together in an organized, coherent whole. But a list of examples misses the point: OmniOutliner is a general-purpose tool which helps you think. We can talk about specific ways customers have used OmniOutliner, of course: to organize their class notes, write technical books, track characters in works of fiction, write screenplays for movies, track budgets and expenses, and organize doctoral theses. In many ways, OmniOutliner is the single app of ours that comes the closest to Steve’s vision of a “bicycle of the mind.” But in much the same way that it wasn’t always easy to explain the value of computers to people in the late ’80s, it can be difficult to explain the value of OmniOutliner to people who have never had the experience of working with a really great outlining app. And OmniOutliner helps you… well… outline things. OmniFocus helps manage your personal tasks. OmniPlan helps schedule complex projects. OmniGraffle helps communicate ideas visually.
While all of our apps share this common goal, the way in which our apps empower customers are easier to explain for some apps than others. Computers can only empower us to do whatever they’ve been programmed to do, so as developers of productivity apps it’s our role to design and build apps that empower our customers. Steve’s notion of a bicycle for our minds-a tool which we can leverage to dramatically increase our mental effectiveness-inspires us to build the apps we build here at Omni. What a computer is to me is it’s the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with, and it’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds. And, a man on a bicycle, a human on a bicycle, blew the condor away, completely off the top of the charts.Īnd that’s what a computer is to me. But, then somebody at Scientific American had the insight to test the efficiency of locomotion for a man on a bicycle. It was not too proud a showing for the crown of creation. And, humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing, about a third of the way down the list. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometer.
I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. I think one of the things that really separates us from the high primates is that we’re tool builders. At the Omni Group, one of our inspirational touchpoints is a quote from a 1990 interview with Steve Jobs, filmed shortly after he launched NeXT:
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