Today's issue of TL NewsWire covers an outliner for iPad (see article below), a metadata removal and management utility, a mobile device management system, a legal research app for Android smartphones, and a customer relationship and practice management system for Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Don't miss the next issue.
A Post-PC Outliner
Lawyers take a lot of notes, whether in a courtroom, conference room, or on a call. Wresting these freeform realtime notes, often interwoven with your reactions and ideas, into a coherent and accurate letter, memo, or other document can prove as daunting and time-consuming as keeping track of Lindsay Lohan's court appearances. Organizing your thoughts calls for an outliner. While word processors have such functionality, they've never measured up to dedicated outliners. Also, it's 2012. Given that you often take notes when you're not in your office, the iPad may prove more conducive to outlining than your PC.
OmniOutliner for iPad … in One Sentence
OmniGroup's OmniOutliner for iPad is an outlining app.
The Killer Feature
OmniOutliner for iPad claims to make data entry efficient so that you can organize complex information with (relative) ease. For example, you'll find several app-specific tools on the iPad's keyboard that enable you to quickly add a new row, indent and outdent rows to create hierarchies and parent-children groups, apply typographic styles en masse, and undo.
You can annotate your entries with notes and add hyperlinks. You can move entire groups or individual rows to new locations using your finger or a stylus.
Other Notable Features
OmniOutliner also enables you to create columns with fields for checkboxes, formatted numbers, dates, pop-up lists, and more. You can manipulate columns similarly to rows — drag them to rearrange, and tap a button to show or hide them. You can sort rows by column, and scroll through columns while topic headings remain visible at the top.
OmniOutliner for iPad includes various document and style templates as well as a rich text editor to create and save your own styles. You can add images and PDF documents to your outlines. Export options include formats such as OmniOutliner (Mac), OPML, HTML, and text. You can import documents via iTunes, email, or WebDAV.
What Else Should You Know?
OmniOutliner for iPad costs $19.99. It supports the retina display in the new iPad and works on all iPads released to date. Learn more about OmniOutliner for iPad.
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