The Omni Mouth » The first post is the deepest

posted by Linda on 03.29.06 @ 11:52 am

Hello, and welcome to The Omni Mouth, our charmingly-named outlet for All Things Omni. Well, not all things Omni, it’s not like we’ll be writing about…oh, the magnets on our snackroom refrigerator, or something. Like we’d be that self-obsessed and insipid! Please.

I mean, that’s what our Flickr account is for.

Anyway, the plan is to provide you lovely people with frequent (”frequent” meaning “whenever we remember to do so”) updates on what The Omni Group is up to. We won’t abandon our other methods of information dissemination, so if you are a fan of the carefully crafted, nutrient-rich press release, fear not–we’ll continue to send out official conch trumpetings when new software versions are available.

Check back for news, tips, pithy vignettes, and a comical overuse of exclamation points.

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Omni software pwnz! kayak.com uses OmniGraffle for all top-secret architectural diagrams, and I use OmniOutliner to prevent my addled brain from getting the better of me.

W00T!

-billo, chief architect, kayak.com
#1 omni fanboy.

G’day Linda and all the ships at sea -

Brilliant use of technology… nice vehicle to communicate with the whim and lattitude that has become you and your gay [meaning happy of course...] band of friends there at Omni.

Ever think about having a contest… maybe call it –> “The Many Things can Be Accomplished Using Omni Software” I would love to see a page or pages that detail out how peoples [plural form of course] use the products… “ahhhhh - I use it to draw pictures with it…. ahhh its kind’a cool!” maybe just a bit beyond todals like my “Ralph” example above.

Cheers my friend - say hello to your kid for me -

Peter

I think “all things omni” may be redundant.
In “The Book of Mirdad”, the (possibly fictitious) mystic Mirdad
spends a chapter giving forth on the Omniwill. Perhaps there’s
a connection. When I get a chance, I’ll post some excerpts
for all (omni) to judge.

In any case, is it possible that someone will write a package of
extensions to OO that will convert it into an e-mail client? It seems
like the perfect application framework. Sort of like all of the emacs
fanatics who’ve turned emacs into an everything environment.

Cheers,
Matthew

Matthew: OmniOutliner, the email client? The mind boggles. Well *my* mind does, anyway. But it doesn’t take much for that to happen (hey look! Clouds!).

I’ll let the Outliner technical ~~geeks~~ folks weigh in on that one.

Never say never, but writing an email client is a ton of work. Just to get started you have to handle a ton of protocols implemented in various buggy ways by different servers. Maybe if Apple were to factor Mail.app out into a CoreMail framework that did all the hard stuff for us this would start to become reasonable.

Sooo…. don’t hold your breath unless you look good in blue.

OmniOutliner isn’t an application framework per se. To create a mail client we could maybe reuse pieces of OmniOutliner but we would basically e starting from scratch.

Personally, I’d rather have my OmniWeb back first.

It was, in fact, a joke…
well, a half-hearted joke. I figured
if folks extended emacs as far as they
did and I’ve seen linux booting on a
wristwatch, then why not OO as an application frame-
work. Just watch, kGTD is only the
first step [and a pretty good one too!].
By giving in to Kinkless,
the Omni Outliner team sowed the seeds
of their own destruction.

When I first started using OO, I recall
reading on the Omni site that some had
written entire books in OO. When someone loves their hammer (or any tool)
that much, they’ll find a way to make
every problem a nail or, more similarly:
I’ve used my screwdriver as a pry bar,
paint stirrer, can opener &, by grasping
the shank, a hammer.

Tim: “Maybe if Apple were to factor Mail.app out into a CoreMail framework that did all the hard stuff for us this would start to become reasonable.”

Ah, you must mean Pantomime
http://www.collaboration-world.com/pantomime

I notice you guys have a TrackBrack URI for each post, but you don’t display the trackbacks anywhere (not even in a feed). ‘Course, now that I’ve posted this, the link will magically appear to make me look stupid. Not that it takes magic to do that.

Trackback test…

Does this work?

……

A big hello to Linda lady and all the other fun Omni people from here in sunny SoCal! Linda, Riley is very cute so he needs more pictures than the cat.

Cheers to you all and keep making those slick products I love using!

I second the comment about Omniweb - I’d dearly love to return to OW but the development has been few and far between in the past year. Is this app alive?

OW 5.5 is under development, yup!

I just discovered this blog, cool idea. Now how about putting a forum on the site to replace the mailing list?

This is what I was looking for, glad I found it.

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posted by Linda on 03.29.06 @ 11:52 am

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