We’re kicking off the year with a free OmniGraffle 7 update for Mac, v7.6-also known as “ The Big Stencils Update.” You can now place the Stencil Browser in the left sidebar of your document, so it’s available while you work on your canvas and inspect other objects. But that’s the past! What’s next for the Omni Group? When will OmniOutliner 3 be shipping? And what’s this about OmniFocus 3? OmniGraffle for Mac: 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, … (Oh, and we started a little podcast called The Omni Show, where you can get to know the people and stories behind our apps. We rounded out 2017 with updates to our JavaScript-based automation for OmniGraffle 7 and OmniOutliner 5, a public TestFlight of OmniOutliner 3 for iOS, and a first hint at our plans for OmniFocus 3. We had free updates to OmniFocus, OmniGraffle, and OmniPlan ready to take advantage of these new capabilities on the day iOS 11 shipped. In June, Apple unveiled iOS 11 at their Worldwide Developer Conference ( WWDC), and they added support for all sorts of great productivity features, including Siri integration, system-wide support for Drag and Drop, and centralized document management. It turns out we weren’t the only people thinking about how to bring more of the power of the desktop to iPads last year. (But that’s getting ahead of myself: I still have more to say about 2017!) iOS 11 updates: Siri, Drag and Drop, Files and more These slide-in panes have made the app much more efficient to work with, so we brought them to OmniPlan 3 for iOS last year in a free update (v3.6, which also introduced a Dark theme) and will also be bringing them to OmniOutliner and OmniFocus very soon. (Of course, you can also dismiss either pane with a tap whenever you want to eliminate those distractions to focus on your document’s content.) On a large 12.9” iPad Pro you can go even further, leaving open a persistent navigation pane on the left at the same time as your inspector pane is open on the right. Rather than tapping to open an inspector every time you want to change a shape’s attributes (and then tapping again to close it before you can return to work on your canvas), you can just open the slide-in inspector and leave it open while you work. When OmniGraffle 3 for iOS shipped, it gave iPad customers a first look at our new slide-in pane design. (And by offering the app as a free download in the App Store, we were able to give people a free two-week trial, as well as offering existing customers a 50% discount on the upgrade.) OmniGraffle 3 for iOS We also introduced a low-cost ($9.99!), easy-to-use Essentials edition for beginners who want to get a taste of what outlining is all about. We started by rolling together the old functionality of the old Standard and Pro editions into a new, lower-priced and more capable than ever Pro edition with new support for advanced filters, encrypted documents, and JavaScript-based automation. With OmniOutliner 5 for Mac, we wanted to help people discover and understand the benefits of a general-purpose outlining tool: it’s the tool that helps us capture a bunch of chaotic, abstract thoughts and put them together into an organized, coherent whole. It also talked about bringing more of the power of the desktop to our iOS apps-introducing powerful JavaScript-based automation, and reducing the number of taps it takes to do things by updating our app designs to take advantage of the iPad’s larger screens. Last year ( our 25th!), our 2017 roadmap talked about switching our App Store apps to free downloads to let us offer trials and upgrade discounts, and shipping OmniOutliner 5 for Mac. There’s a lot to share this year-particularly about our plans for OmniFocus in 2018-so let’s dive right in! Looking back at 2017 Welcome! Each January, we like to pause and reflect on the past year’s accomplishments and to share a roadmap of our plans for the coming year.
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