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Opal Feature Requests

So, you wanted feedback on the price?

Opal looks awesome so far; I do have OmniOutliner 3, but Opal seems much simpler and faster.

I'm not sure what the price would be.  Personally, I would make it donationware, since Acta is currently free.  Either that or somewhere from $0 to $20, probably around $10 or $15, at least with the current functionality.

Not sure, though...

-- J.P.

Yes, thoughts on price are handy. It's a tricky subject.

I don't know anything about the success of "donationware" -- I think I'd be more comfortable with a set price because that's easier to publicize.

I looked from A to Z and couldn't find my Acta registration but I did find the Zterm receipt.  I guess the Acta Advantage floppy and booklet are in the storage locker, and anything older on the subject would be with them.

I've always thought software should be 40 bucks each.
Windows, Excel, ArcView, Photoshop etc.

Sell it by the pound.  (Don't include the weight of the marketing department, as is so often done.)

;B

Once I upgrade to 10.4 or higher (when I get an Intel Mac at the end of this year or beginning of 2007) I'd immediately pay $20-$25 for the ability to access my 20-years-worth of Acta files.

Since I cannot yet try Opal, I only hope I'll be able to properly access voice notes, sound files and images currently residing in my Acta outlines....

J. P. Tuttle said:
>Personally, I would make it donationware, since Acta is currently free. Either that or somewhere from $0 to $20, probably around $10 or $15, at least with the current functionality.

Eric Bear Albrecht said:
>I've always thought software should be 40 bucks each. Windows, Excel, ArcView, Photoshop etc.

I agree with Mr. Albrecht (sorry J. P.!). At present, OmniOutliner is US$40 and OmniOutliner Pro is US$70 (which I own). I just downloaded Opel (why that name? Is it a reference to the automobile manufacturer?), and I instantly fell in love with it, because it is an easier-to-use version of OmniOutliner (I loved Acta for the same reason). If you price Opel at or just below OmniOutliner, you might have a shot a capturing that audience.

Best wishes,
Clint

Herr Opel killed himself testing a rocket car.  FWIW.  David's not so rash.  We hope.

At least $10 less than OmniOutliner (despite the fact that Opal is much nicer! :-)

Or you could make it "Recipeware"  :-)

Here's a gift for the present small company of Acta/Opal fans:

Tarte Flambee (a kind of white pizza served in Strasbourg).

Use a "ready to eat" flour tortilla (8 inches in diameter) as the crust, simple shredded Mozzarella cheese (about 1 cup) for the cheese, onions (about 1/4 cup before cooking) sauteed till barely clear and sweet, bacon (3 slices) cooked just short of beginning to crisp (to drive off most of the fat), one teaspoon of finely chopped Garlic, and a generous pinch of oregano. 

Add 1 teaspoon sour cream <or Creme Fraise if you have it>

Brush the tortilla very, very lightly with olive oil top and bottom.  Combine the other ingredients and spread the mixture to the edge of the crust to keep it from becoming too crisp.  Cook it just short of 10 minutes at 450
degrees in a large toaster oven.  Ideally, it should be cooked on a flat piece of wood (soaked in water before use) and in a wood fired pizza oven.

Enjoy!

I agree with the guys who are saying 10 bucks under OmniOutliner (and I, too, own Omni).  Opal looks like it will be a dynamite product when finished.  Hell, just Acta that ran under System X would have been fine with me!  I have used Acta for so much academic work that I'd pay more than a hundred bucks for a new (but not bloated!) version of Acta! But I suppose I'm the exception?
In the PC world, Word is such a colossal cluster**** that I am willing to pop for $150 for LexisNexus/Case Soft's "NoteMap" (an outliner for lawyers who need an outliner that works, thus eliminating Word)!

Word as an outliner?!!!

Don't try thinking about that while drinking milk!

:0

Jim