Outline: Knowledge Organizer 4+
Ideas, Notes and Projects
Gorillized
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
OUTLINE – THE POWERFUL, FLEXIBLE NOTE-TAKING APP FOR APPLE PLATFORM
Outline is a versatile note-taking and knowledge management tool that turns your ideas, research, and plans into an organized digital library. With a familiar notebook-like structure—featuring notebooks, sections, groups, and pages—Outline is designed for users across professions, from students to executives. Paired with Outline for iPad and Microsoft OneNote, Outline becomes a truly cross-platform solution.
TYPE FREELY, ORGANIZE WITHOUT LIMITS
Arrange your thoughts as they come, typing anywhere on a page—just like a traditional paper notebook, without constraints. Organize your notes your way and move ideas across pages and sections as they grow. With Outline, the canvas is yours.
MAKE YOUR NOTES STAND OUT
Add depth to your notes with advanced text formatting options. Adjust font sizes, colors, and styles, create bulleted and numbered lists, and embed tables and hyperlinks. Visualize concepts with icons, tags, and to-do lists to capture essential details at a glance.
APPLE WRITING TOOLS
Outline integrates Apple Writing Tools to enhance your writing experience on macOS. With powerful features that include Proofreading (checking spelling and grammar), Rewriting (rephrasing text in Friendly, Professional, or Concise tones), and Summarizing, Writing Tools help you craft polished notes. Additional formatting options such as creating Lists and Tables from text allow for a well-organized presentation of your ideas.
ADVANCED SEARCH & IMAGE SEARCH
Quickly locate information with Outline’s advanced search options. Filter results by relevance, date, author, notebook, and section. Plus, with image search, you can even locate text within images, making research and data retrieval a breeze.
ATTACH DOCUMENTS & ANNOTATE PRINTOUTS
Keep all relevant materials together. Attach files directly to notes and insert PDFs as printouts for annotation. Outline is designed to be your universal tool for organizing and working with information.
KEEP YOUR NOTES SAFE AND SECURE
Outline gives you the freedom to choose where to store your data—locally or in the cloud. Protect sensitive sections with passwords and encryption, and set automatic locks for added security.
DARK MODE
Outline supports macOS Dark Mode, adapting seamlessly to your system settings for a comfortable reading and editing experience. Additionally, you can choose to keep specific pages in Light Mode while the app remains in Dark Mode, giving you the flexibility to work in a way that suits your environment and preferences.
TAKE YOUR NOTES WITH YOU – OUTLINE FOR IPAD
Enjoy the full functionality of Outline on iPad. Experience a desktop-grade note-taking tool that’s portable and powerful, with ink annotations and more.
SEAMLESS MICROSOFT ONENOTE INTEGRATION
Outline works seamlessly with local OneNote files on macOS and iPad, and supports syncing with OneDrive and SharePoint for easy collaboration.
Supported OneNote Formats:
• OneNote 2010+: Fully supported
• OneNote 2007: Read-only
• OneNote 2003: Not supported
Microsoft Sync Services:
• SharePoint on-premise 2010+: Supported
• OneDrive Personal and Business: Supported
• SharePoint Online: Limited (top-level site access only)
ENHANCED STORAGE AND SYNC OPTIONS
Outline synchronizes with your preferred cloud storage and now supports removable and network drives for more flexible storage. An improved sync process ensures your data is always up-to-date across devices.
STAY CONNECTED WITH OUTLINE
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Facebook: facebook.com/outlineapp
Twitter: twitter.com/outlineapp
For questions or feedback, reach out at support@outline.app.
Learn more at https://outline.app
Terms of Use: https://outline.app/terms
What’s New
Version 5.2411.1
• macOS 14+ Support: Fully compatible now with the two latest macOS versions.
• App Icon Improvements: Corrected app icon size on macOS for a more polished appearance.
• Filtered Section Icons: Section Properties/Icon screen now includes filter field for easier selection.
• Keyboard Navigation: Added support for Tab/Shift+Tab and F6 to switch focus between main window controls seamlessly.
• Bug Fixes and Stability: Various fixes and improvements for a smoother, more reliable experience.
Ratings and Reviews
Great App only missing 2 things for me to make it Awesome
This app is great, it really is. It will replace your OneNote app and give you back the power to save your notes where ever you want, webdav, icloud, dropbox, etc. Really great to have this instead of syncing everything to the cloud I can save the notes locally if I wish or to the network server at the office. The only two things I have an issue with is that you cannot set a custom font and size when you start a note, i have to manually change the font size, bold everytime, you also cant pick the type of font you want to use. Come on that should have been an option from the begining. The other one is that I cannot mark a note as a favorite so it shows up like in most used section or favorites section.
Other than the things I mentioned this app is really good and if you dont want to use the cloud and want more control of your data but like OneNote this is the app for you. Check it out, on their website they give you a free 14 day trial at least you can try it and decide if you want it. I tried for a few days and bought it.
Great App For Genealogy Research
I have used this app on and off over many years, typically going back to OneNote however. The one thing that I have never liked about these types of apps is printing them to a PDF or to printer. There are no “margins” to know if what you have put onto the screen page will flow over a “right margin”. I loaded up Outline again to see what improvements have been made and discovered that pretty much what you see on the screen page is what prints to paper or PDF as one page without having right margin overflow issues. That is a huge deal for me when keeping genealogy research logs. OneNote still does not do this, so I have multiple extra print pages where the information flowed too far off the right invisible screen margin. The other issue that I like about Outline is that my files are local and sync’d on iCloud, rather that just dealing with a shortcut to OneDrive that OneNote uses. Other than these two things, this app does much of what OneNote does like linking to other pages and such.
Developer Response ,
Thanks for the feedback!
Great Notebook Style with Huge Limitations
Of all the notebook-taking apps I've seen, this one has the best layout and is pretty solid; however, if you're looking for styling options you'll need to look elsewhere. Font options are non-existent, you can't style ordered lists, there isn't a dark theme for the pages themselves, and in general the editor is bare bones. I've checked online for options and I keep seeing the developer promising new features that never seem to come.
Given the other merits of the software I'm willing to stick with it, but the developers really need to get the ball rolling. This has the potential of being the best on the market and, with a little more effort, could easily achieve it. If the menu looked feature rich like Word, or something similar, we'd be cooking with gas. I hope the developers will be more quickly responsive to user demands.
App Privacy
The developer, Gorillized, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- GORILLIZED CORPORATION
- Size
- 64.7 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 14.0.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Gorillized Corporation
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Outline Standard (Monthly) $4.99
- Outline Pro (Monthly) $9.99
- Outline Pro (Yearly) $99.99
- Outline Standard (Yearly) $49.99