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Posted by MadaboutDana
Jan 28, 2015 at 07:56 PM

 

The last time anybody mentioned Opal, the reincarnation of Acta, was back in 2006 (I think).

Is anybody using this rather exotic but thoroughly traditional Mac outliner?

http://a-sharp.com/opal/

 


Posted by Hugh
Jan 29, 2015 at 10:36 AM

 

MadaboutDana wrote:
The last time anybody mentioned Opal, the reincarnation of Acta, was
>back in 2006 (I think).
> >Is anybody using this rather exotic but thoroughly traditional Mac
>outliner?
> >http://a-sharp.com/opal/

I use it, and I like it for its simplicity and lack of exoticism - when I need to use a Mac outliner that’s simple and unexotic. (In passing it’s worth recording that on this forum I think it’s been mentioned several times since 2006; I and others have mentioned it and its developer, David Dunham, has also contributed.)

 


Posted by Hugh
Jan 29, 2015 at 12:46 PM

 

Perhaps I should explain why I see Opal as “unexotic”, Bill. Compared with Tinderbox, of course it is. But Tinderbox is sui generis. Compared with, say, OmniOutliner, Opal is somewhat simpler. But I started using Opal alongside Neo and its predecessor TAO: you just have to look at TAO’s user interface (for example: http://www.macupdate.com/images/screens/uploaded/JPG/13891_scr.jpg) - now that’s exoticism!

 


Posted by Paul Korm
Jan 29, 2015 at 04:15 PM

 

Yes, but TAO has elan :-)

 


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