Are custom fonts/colors/styling in the outline view supported? [Supported in v2.5]

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Continuing the discussion from How can the data density be improved?:

@savantier

Apologies for my critical nature here – I’m an ardent fan of OmniGroup and their products (OmniOutliner 4 is top notch) but there’s quite a lot that they could improve on this front.

I’ve just downloaded and tried the new semi-private beta of OmniFocus 2.

It’s great. Love the three/four pane design. Love the integrated inspector (similar to Pages 5). Love the minimalist design. The responsiveness as well – it’s a far cry from the old beta. It’s all great.

What I hate though (I think I’ve read a topic on the official OmniGroup forums talking about this issue) is the data density.

Data density here is terrible. Yes, there’s the ‘change text size’ slider, but that doesn’t affect the density of the data (the width between each task).

The new design’s very pleasing on the eye, but in terms of usability, it’s hit rock bottom.

I tend to use quite a lot of nesting (3-4-5 ‘layers’ of indentation) due to the complexity and nature of my work. It just doesn’t really work well for me in OmniFocus 2. I’d have to scroll down to see content that would normally fit on a single screen in OmniFocus 1.

I propose (think it was suggested on the forum thread) the option (the default setting would be as it is right now) to increase the data density.

We can look towards Gmail for inspiration –

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Data Density, in my mind, is the symptom.

The issue, I believe, is the lack of style features (themes) in OF2. Having the capability to change line depth, indentation, colours, font, etc - along with a newer idea of ‘data locations’ (?), whereby we can pick where each data element lives on each row; so we can move context to underneath dates, or due date to middle of row, etc, etc - would make the view better.

PS: I spent past few weeks trying different task systems, and came back to OF1, to change its theme, only yesterday. It made a big difference in my renewed interest in OF…for the 3 hours before the new beta release :smile: