Today on Omni's blog: our 2026 roadmap! Reflecting on the launch of OmniOutliner 6, looking ahead to the release of OmniGraffle 8, and more.

https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/omni-roadmap-2026

Here in Seattle, we're excited for the Seahawks' return to the Super Bowl this weekend. Did you know that OmniGraffle, developed right here in the Emerald City, helps bring the Super Bowl halftime show to life every year? Chris Conti, Chief Innovation Officer at PRG, gives you a behind the scenes look on The Omni Show:

https://theomnishow.omnigroup.com/episode/how-chris-conti-uses-omnigraffle

OmniOutliner 6
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/23/omnioutliner-6

OmniOutliner has powered serious thinking for 25 years, and version 6 changes the game. New episode of The Omni Show with Ken Case & Sal Soghoian: Omni Links, Apple-intelligence automation, Vision Pro workflows, and the future of outlining. - https://theomnishow.omnigroup.com/episode/the-release-of-omnioutliner-6

OmniOutliner 6 Is Here: https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2026/01/omnioutliner-6-is-here/

@StevenJackson If you've registered it to your Omni Account, then yes to both questions. (You can reinstall v3 from the App Store to register your purchase if you haven't already.)

@sparse_array Great; you're all set! Just install OmniOutliner 6, sign into your Omni Account, and Pro should be licensed.

@sparse_array Oh, I should note that if you're already a monthly subscriber to OmniOutliner (or any of our other apps), we haven't discontinued those subscriptions—and those subscriptions do cover upgrades to the latest versions including OmniOutliner 6.

(But if you previously had a monthly subscription and stopped, then yes, I'm afraid it's no longer available.)

@sparse_array We no longer offer monthly subscriptions for any of our products. We think perpetual licenses are better investments for most customers (especially with our half-price upgrade discounts).

We do still offer annual subscriptions for those who prefer them (mostly for businesses who prefer predictable annual operating expenses).

"I've been using OmniOutliner for 20 years, and it's truly the best (and most trusted) system I've found to stop trying to use my brain as a filing cabinet."

— Phil Alden Robinson, Director and Screenwriter (whose films include Field of Dreams, Sneakers, and The Sum of All Fears)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Alden_Robinson

Today's launch of OmniOutliner 6 made the front page of the Mac App Store! Thank you, Apple!

https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1462144368

@jonathanbuys I keep wondering if we should make resizing columns an undoable action. That recording is a good argument for it. (You could choose "Autosize" in that column menu to get back, but that's not obvious—and wouldn't work for other columns.)

There are definitely places for preferences, and this might very well be one of those places if we can't figure out something better. We certainly don't intend for anyone to be frustrated while resizing columns.

We made pretty heavy use of OmniOutliner while working towards shipping OmniOutliner 6!

(I kept checking for outlines under File > Open Recents and realizing that 30 recent outlines wasn't enough to get back to the outline I was looking for. But I didn't really want to bump my recent menus up to tracking 50 documents, either.)

https://hachyderm.io/@ainslaw/115850000241294144

How many OmniOutliner documents *does* it take to ship an OmniOutliner release?

@jonathanbuys I understand where you're coming from! (At least I hope I do.)

We do constrain the minimum column width, but I suspect the minimum width we currently use is the width of a checkbox. (If you set the column's type to a checkbox, you wouldn't want the column to be forced to be wider than that.)

We autosize the topic column by default, but if you intentionally resize it we assume you want it a fixed width for easier or predictable scanning, while still centering your outline.

@jonathanbuys Oh, I see! Yes, I wouldn't expect that either.

The resize controls in OmniOutliner are designed to match the resize controls in Finder's columns mode: you drag the divider to the right of a column to change its size. In other words, when you're dragging on the divider between Column 1 and Column 2 in that video, you're only ever affecting the width of Column 1. It doesn't affect the width of Column 2.(The word wrap never changes in the text in Column 2.)

@jonathanbuys Thank you for sharing that screencast!

Were you looking for the space to be divided equally across the columns? Our assumption is generally that the topic column is the most important and contains the most content (other than column-spanning notes), while other columns are there to support that column.

Or was your feedback more about the mechanics of resizing a column? You might find it useful to right-click on a column header and choose "Resize to Fit" as a first step.

As my writing tools evolved with technology, so did my outlining tools. I used the Outline mode in Emacs on BSD, then the outlining mode in Concurrence on the NeXT platform. I then found myself in need of a new outlining tool as we moved to Mac OS X, so we adapted a little tool I’d written for my wife (to catalog our book collection) and OmniOutliner was born.

(Crazy to think that I’ve now been using OmniOutliner for a quarter century!)

My love of outlines goes back to learning to write 10-minute essays as a freshman at the UW. We learned to spend the first 3-5 minutes writing our outlines (using the tools of that era, paper and pencil), then we would turn those outlines into prose. I quickly learned that those outlines were also great for putting structure to my history class notes, taking notes on one side of the page in my notebook, then returning later to rewrite those notes as an outline on the facing page.

Whether you’re a writer or a student, an attorney or a software developer, outlines can help clarify and develop ideas and concepts. And the beginning of the year is a great time to take a step back from our ground-level to-do lists, to think about our plans more strategically at the 10,000-foot level. I’m doing this now myself, looking back at the past year and thinking about the year ahead, and find OmniOutliner indispensible for giving structure to those thoughts.

https://mastodon.omnigroup.com/@OmniOutliner/115849392557090435