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OmnigraffleSoftware

by The Omni Group

Who uses, recommends or left Omnigraffle, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

5 people

Teresa Torres
Product discovery coach; wrote Continuous Discovery Habits and writes Product Talk.
loved

But I love OmniGraffle. I’ve been using it for years. Too many. I use it to create mind maps, wireframes, high fidelity mockups, flow charts. It’s easy to use. It’s powerful. I love it.

Blog post listing her favorite productivity, reading and product-building tools

2014-01-02·producttalk.org ↗

Matt Might
Computer science professor and author of The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D.
loved

For graphs constructed by hand, OmniGraffle is perfect.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: a setup built to make the right things easy and the wrong things hard.

2012-01-06·usesthis.com ↗

Amber Case
Cyborg anthropologist and UX designer; author of Calm Technology and co-founder of the geolocation startup Geoloqi.
liked

When I was at Vertigo Software I was quite tied to Visio, but at Geoloqi I'm predominately on a Mac, so I've switched over to Omnigraffle for wireframing.

Her Uses This interview, on documenting everything and the home automation around it.

2011-11-21·usesthis.com ↗

Daniel Lemire
Computer science professor who writes about software performance and indexing; blogs weekly at lemire.me.
uses

When I need to draw diagrams, I use Omnigraffle.

His Uses This interview, on his laptops, tablets and research toolchain.

2013-11-05·usesthis.com ↗

Emily Short
Interactive narrative designer and critic; author of interactive fiction including Galatea and a long-time contributor to the Inform development system.
uses

To visualize complex puzzle or narrative structures, I rely on OmniGraffle.

Her Uses This interview, on the tools behind her interactive fiction and criticism.

2011-02-07·usesthis.com ↗

What they also use

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.