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1. #WINDOWS EQUIVALENT TO CIRCUS PONIES NOTEBOOK SOFTWARE#
2. #WINDOWS EQUIVALENT TO CIRCUS PONIES NOTEBOOK MAC#

#WINDOWS EQUIVALENT TO CIRCUS PONIES NOTEBOOK SOFTWARE#

Today they are well known for business software like OmniFocus (task management), OmniGraffle (flow charts and the like), or OmniPlan (project management).

#WINDOWS EQUIVALENT TO CIRCUS PONIES NOTEBOOK MAC#

I remember them fondly because they did port “Quake 3: Arena” to the Mac ages ago (pro bono) and - as far as I have heard - they have very high quality standards. OmniOutliner was written by “The Omni Group”, which has been around for a while (founded in 1989). There is a lot to cover and I did not have the time to make it shorter.īut let’s start with OmniOutliner. opml, opening the file in OO, copy-and-pasting it into (a) new Outline(s) and moving the images (and other media) manually.Īnd yep, this is going to be a monster-posting. I focus here on migrating the content by exporting the CPN notebook to. However, that is beyond my capabilities - at least in a reasonable amount of time. xml file in OO) and the structure seems to be quite easy to reproduce. xml files (compressed for each page in CPNs case, one. After all, you can access the structure and the attachments when you look into the files. If anyone can write a program that is able to read the CPN files (they are folders after all) and produces an OmniOutliner file (also a folder) … well, that would deal with migration in an instant. I also know that there are better (read: faster/more automatized) ways to migrate the content. Note that I’m still in the early phases of using OO and I’m sure there is more to know. Follow this information at your own risk. I’m going to describe the software first, compare it to CircusPonies Notebook (regarding advantages and disadvantages and focusing on things you have to do different), give a few additional tips on using it, and then talk a bit about migrating the CPN notebooks to OO.Īs usual this posting comes without any warranty. The right thing is to move on as well, no matter how hard it is.ĭuring the last couple of days I tried out OmniOutliner (here in short: OO) as an alternative. Still using a dead piece of software is simply digital necrophilia. No matter how much you loved it and recommended it. But that doesn’t change the fact that you cannot keep it alive if the programmer has - for whatever reason - moved on. I’m still sad that this amazing piece of software has folded. Given that Circus Ponies Notebook died recently, it was time to look for an alternative.