What our customer's say!"Good program to get started with flowcharts and diagramming", Recently I faces with a necessity to teach basic diagramming and flowcharting and I found that Omnigraffle is a perfect program to get started and to master all the basic functions. For advanced usage and sophisticated layouts and diagrams I try to use other programs that are also available on Mac, for example, ConceptDraw.
"It really is good...", OmniGraffle is for me, the most unique productivity tool I possess.
I teach film and digital media at a local university. All of my handouts to my students are produced in OmniGraffle. It works seamlessly with their companion outliner program; OmniOutliner. I prepare handouts in OmniOutliner first, clarifying my thinking and then I simply load it into Omnigraffle which converts the outline with indents etc. into structured diagrams with the same inter-relationship as the original outline document. Easier to do than explain, I have to say.
They look great, they are easily edited and changed. You can make incredible documents with this program from flowcharts highlighting processes to floorplans, to detailed notes, and step-by-step explanations, etc. etc. etc. Faster and easier than a desktop publishing program and far, far more flexible.
The other reviewer was right, if you work with ideas, this program, especially working with OmniOutliner, is invaluable. There are plenty of outliners for the PC, there are also graphics software, but nothing like this pair for productivity.
"One of the easiest and most useful programs I've ever used", As a former software quality assurance tester for a major software company I have to say that this is arguably the easiest and most useful program I have ever used.
Through the years I've had to dabble with Photoshop, Quark, PageMaker and FileMaker. The companies that make these titles like us to think that their programs are easy to use. Well, they need to send some folks over to Omni Group to learn how it's really done.
I've never been able to just sit down and intutiively know how to operate software such as this. OmniGraffle has been the exception. Within minutes I had created a flow chart of ideas that was close to perfect. I didn't even need to look at the directions. Speaking of which, the small manual for this program looks like a booklet made by Dorling-Kindersley. You can't get any more user friendly than that.
If you work with ideas and concepts - creative writing, marketing, politics, business, nonprofits. speech writing, education, etc. - you will find this software useful. It will allow you to easily and succinctly present these ideas to others or just for your own personal use.
Omni Group has a demo version of this software which allows users to have up to 20 graphic items in their document. This might sound like a lot, but it isn't. If you're serious about using the software you'll definitely want to purchase it.
"Reason alone to buy a Mac? Maybe.", This remarkable program astonishes people. It may be the finest software I have ever used--and I've used more than my share. OmniGraffle is designed to create visual representations of data, from time lines, to flow charts, to electronic diagrams, to office lay-outs, and much, much more. But this sterile list hardly does justice to the amazing flexibility and ease of use of this program. Everything from object fill, to line width, to line features, to labelling, to color, to fonts, to page lay-out are so feature rich, so user friendly as to put any competitors to rest. There certainly is nothing even close to this software in the Windows world. (If you are using something like Visio for these tasks, you are in the stone-age.) I wish I could include a sample document to illustrate what this program can do. But, since I can't, go to OmniGroup's web site (www.omnigroup.com) to check out their examples.
I'd give this a 10 if I could.
