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OmniFocus

OmniFocus - 1.6.1

Personal task management.

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This Version: Not rated (0.0)
Current Version: 1.6.1
Release Date: 2009-05-05
License: Update
Downloads (this version): 831
Downloads (all versions): 10,143
Price: $79.95

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Product Description:

Task management shouldn't be your full time job. We've built OmniFocus to take a load off your mind by managing your tasks the way that you want, freeing you to focus your attention on the things that matter to you most. Finish that novel. Spend more time with your friends and family. Grow your business. Let us worry about keeping your goals and tasks, both personal and professional, in one ordered, easy to access system that you can depend on.

What's new in this version:

Operating system compatibility
  • Fixed some issues with the Bonjour sync server on 10.4 where it could return a 502 "Bad Gateway" error after changes to the network configuration.
  • Fixed a compatibility issue with clipping from MailTags on 10.4.
  • Added a compatibility fix for AppleScript clipping handlers.
Syncing
  • Synchronization clients can lock down fewer transactions, allowing the database to compact more frequently.
  • Updated the sync logic to be compatible with some upcoming sync performance enhancements.
  • Updated the syncing logic to ignore synced perspectives from OmniFocus 1.7 (rather than reporting an error because 1.6 doesn't know what to do with them).
Attachments
  • Fixed an issue which could cause attachments to temporarily disappear for users who weren't synchronizing their database. (The attachments would disappear after compacting, then reappear when the database cache was rebuilt.)
  • When an attachment can't be found while moving old data to the archive, OmniFocus no longer gives up with an "Unable to create XML archive" error message. Instead, it logs a warning to the system console and skips the missing attachment.
Miscellaneous
  • The "Due or Flagged" filter now includes items with inherited flags, just as the "Flagged" filter does.
  • Updated the German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch and Chinese localizations.
  • When picking dates using the popup calendar, fixed some bugs with using the keyboard to confirm (Enter) or cancel (Escape) the selected date.
  • Updated the help so it returns results when searching for "themes" (not just "theme").
  • Added a hidden GrowlNotificationLimit preference which controls the number of growl notifications OmniFocus is willing to post simultaneously. (The default limit is 5.)

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

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OmniFocus Reviewa great power tool, but only for geeks in love with GTD - Version: 1.6.1, 6/16/2009 07:36AM PST

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VancouverRMT
With extensive usage, I have slowly become less enthusiastic about OmniFocus than I once was. It’s generally an amazing piece of software. However, it is also extremely complex, and I don’t mean in a power-user kind of way: I mean in a confusing way. No matter how well I learn the software, I still “lose” my data. There are so many ways to sort and view and filter your data that it is also amazingly difficult to find things. I’ve seen this problem discussed ad infinitum on the Omni forums. It’s such a serious flaw that I would never recommend the software, despite its other virtues. This app is a power tool for geeks in love with GTD.

Syncing with the iPhone application was so consistently error-prone over several months of experimentation that I eventually gave up.

OmniFocus support, generally excellent in my experience over the years, was not exactly perfect either. Ultimately they dropped the ball, offering to examine my database for the cause of my chronic syncing problems, but then taking much too long to follow-up (weeks).
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OmniFocus ReviewFinal Decision: The winner is OmniFocus! - Version: 1.5, 1/5/2009 01:48AM PST

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robbnashville
I began testing both THINGS and OMNIFOCUS last summer and didn't make my final choice until after the near-final version of Things was released a few days ago to those using the beta version. Things is a beautiful program & it is very easy to use. However, my final decision is to go with OmniFocus because of it's superb power. IMO the purpose of a program like this is the ability to organize and view data easily in a number of ways to facilitate planning and actually accomplishing goals. While Things provides a great deal of what I need, the bottom line is that I found it's approach a little too scattered. It was often difficult for me to see all my actions & projects in one view for a given period of time. Because I am an organizer, I would file some tasks in "Someday", others in "Scheduled" and the rest in "Next". When I would try to see where I had an opening for another task or project, I often could not get a clear sense of my planning with Things. It's heavy use of tags is just not to my liking. I prefer the use of contexts, which are like categories. OmniFocus follows the use of contexts. (Things has something similar called "Areas"; but they are just not the same thing in practice.) Things does not allow the use of start dates as well as due dates. Even though it is true that projects should be constructed of single actions that can be accomplished at a given time, the ability of OmniFocus to assign start dates allows tasks to be unavailable until their start date. This approach gets them out of the way until I am ready to review them or focus on them. Also, Things just doesn't use dates well. OmniFocus not only allows easy entry of dates, it also presents the due date more clearly for each task and, because it has an inspector panel, it's easy to see more about repeating items, when items are due for review, etc.l. The final straw that broke the camel's back for me was the difference between the iPhone clients. If iCal had been able to handle to do items better (especially repeating tasks) and present them on the iPhone, I might never have started this journey. Both Things and OmniFocus have iPhone clients; but there's no real comparison. Things, like it's desktop counterpart, is very scattered on the iPhone, while OmniFocus is just as organized on the iPhone as it is on the desktop. Things only allows syncing while on the same wireless network. OmniFocus allows syncing via a number of methods; and since I am a MobileMe subscriber, I use that method, which allows me to sync from anywhere. I'm sure Things will meet the needs of many people; and for those who place a big emphasis on price, it will probably win. For me, time is money; and OmniFocus helps me get the most done.
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OmniFocus ReviewOnly product to use for Getting Things Done system! - Version: 1.5 rc 2, 11/2/2008 04:24PM PST

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Michael Stringer
I first encountered the Getting Things Done (GTD) system in 2002, and have implemented in software in Palm OS (workable), MS Outlook (completely unworkable), iCal (workable) and OmniOutliner (workable). I tried this product as soon as it was released, and have used it all day every day since. It is the most important application on my computer - absolutely essential to my well being.

For those that understand the GTD approach to personal organisation, this is product is the best available on any OS. A friend shifted from Windows to Mac OS partly because he wanted to use this product. He raves about it.

However, I would not recommend even starting to use OmniFocus until you read about the Getting Things Done approach and watch the 10 min tutorial video that Omni Group provide. There is plenty of information on the Internet about GTD (www.davidco.com or www.43folders.com/topics/getting-things-done are starting points). Some worthwhile things require some learning before you can achieve any value.
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