So I was looking around and there was some suggestions on the web that Omnioutliner actually could import old MORE 3.1 files. Did this ever happen and if so, does it still exist?[/quote]
OmniOutliner was able to import MORE documents for over a decade, from version 1 through version 3. However, MORE’s binary file format was very awkward to port between CPU types: with great effort, it did survive the transition from PowerPC to Intel in 2006, but when OmniOutliner 4 went 64-bit in 2014 it was left behind.
If you still need to read an old MORE document, you can use OmniOutliner 3 to open that document and convert it to the OmniOutliner 3 file format, which OmniOutliner 4 still reads and writes.
MORE had some great strengths, but also some frustrating edges (like not remembering the partially collapsed state of children when you expand a parent). OmniOutliner has its own strengths, though there are certainly areas of functionality from MORE which OmniOutliner has never made any attempt to address (such as Presentation mode).
But I think most people have considered OmniOutliner to be a stronger outliner since at least 2004, when we shipped version 3. To quote from mailing list feedback we received at the time from a self-proclaimed “MORE stalwart”:
[quote]I’d like to be the first to comment, and hopefully other stalwarts will agree, that OO3 has taken a huge step towards being more like the classic More program that many of us learned to love years ago. I’m not talking about specific exact features but more in terms of the feel and the soul of the program it seems much more gracefully useful under a wide range of flexible circumstances than OO2 ever was.
I, and others, came to OO hoping you would imitate every one of my favorite More features and was initially disappointed with OO2 but instead with OO3 you’ve made a holistic elegant modern outline program along the same lines that the creators of More might have done if they had written it in the 2004’s instead of way back so many years ago. I’m sure we’ll keep saying “please include More’s feature XYZ next” but I think you’ve done a great job on the overall usability.
