CEO of @OmniGroup, a small Seattle-based software company who have won five Apple Design Awards (for @OmniFocus, @OmniGraffle, and @OmniWeb).
Enthusiastic about doing things early: university at age 14; AppKit on NeXT in 1989; apps on launch days for Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad, watchOS, and visionOS.
Gamer. Helped Wizards launch Magic: the Gathering. Helped with Doom on NeXT; with Quake, Oni, and Fallout 1/2 on Mac OS X.
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| Website | https://people.omnigroup.com/kc/ |
| Location | Seattle |
Deciding which T-shirt will be more likely to start conversations tomorrow.
Well, whichever you see me in, please say hello! (Had a nice developer from Vietnam say hello to me an hour ago based on their recognition of the OmniFocus logo on today's T-shirt.)
Wow! On the iOS App Store, OmniOutliner 6 for iOS currently has a perfect 5.0 / 5.0 rating! Pretty amazing for an app that anyone can download and rate for free. Thank you!
(Also, it's kind of wild that it's been over 25 years since we first announced OmniOutliner 1.0 beta 1 for Mac OS X Developer Preview 4: <https://web.archive.org/web/20110523035259/http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/archive/omninews/2000/000112.html>.)
When Macintosh was introduced as "the computer for the rest of us"—sporting its bright six-color Apple logo—what really caught my attention was the huge stack of Xeroxed "Inside Macintosh" developer manuals: kept in a three-ringed binder at the University's computer center, filled with loads of Pascal APIs. And when Steve introduced the NeXT cube with its stack of API manuals, I was entranced. My life has revolved around the platform ever since.
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Every time I see the original bright six-color Apple logo, I'm reminded of the Apple ][ donated to our small school just before the end of the school year. I asked the librarian if I could borrow its stack of spiral-bound manuals over the summer. I pored through that stack of manuals as my family road-tripped from Seattle to South Dakota—my mind fully occupied by the information contained within, as my senses took in the feel of the paper and the smell of the books.
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Test builds of OmniOutliner 6.1 are now available, with a bunch of new Shortcuts actions provided by App Intents. Feedback welcome!
Today's launch of OmniOutliner 6 made the front page of the Mac App Store! Thank you, Apple!
Great things often begin as outlines. Whether you're a writer or a student, an attorney or a software developer, outlines can help clarify and develop ideas and concepts.
We're thrilled to share that the next version of OmniOutliner is nearly ready as a universal app for Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Apple Vision Pro, and that we're making test builds available to anyone who wants to help make sure we haven't overlooked anything.
https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/testing-the-next-omnioutliner
