OmniGraffle has become my favorite tool for all design work. Stencils are reusable diagrams, like templates in MS Word. There are some stencils like YUI, Facebook that I use frequently, but I also search for new stencils often. Graffletopia has the best collection of Omnigraffle stencils online. I am surprised that Omnigroup is not maintaining their own repository of stencils. It is like Mozilla not maintaining the FireFox addons repository.
It is possible to download stencils from Graffletopia without leaving Omnigraffle. To download stencils within Omnigraffle, open the stencils window (shortcut: ⌘+0) and click on the triangle next to the lens icon 
and choose Graffletopia. Now you can search for stencils as you would on Graffletopia website. Click on the search results and select install to download the stencil.
This design pattern of installing addons/extensions within the host application is becoming standard. During the early days Firefox for example, users had to visit Firefox addons website to find extensions, download the file and install them. Now users can install addons within Firefox itself. Other browsers like Google Chrome also do the same.
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