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OmniFocus

OmniFocus

Personal task management.

Version:  1.7.5

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Great potential but limited real-world use

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: tim.lambert Wednesday, February 06 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: 1-6 months

Recommend Product: NO

This software is a really great idea and being a frequent user of other omni products, bought it virtually sight unseen. Silly me. Nearly everyone I know (a reasonably average demographic) works on at least two Macs - the office and the portable (or home). Most folk do a backup of some sort to allow later synchronisation so you're always working with the most up to date docs.

This software does not allow the copies software to open and crashes big time.

The kludgy work around is to go to File, make a backup to the drive/server/etc where you synchronise, and then manually drag this file on to the program icon when on computer #2. Unfortunately prefs etc about what columns to show etc are not carried over.

In the modern age, this is reaqlly a serious defect for this type of product.

HAving said all that, if they work this aspect out satisfactorily, I would move this from 2 star to 4.5 stars.

  
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Great potential but limited real-world use - OmniSupportNinja

Machine-to-machine synching is something that's very much on our radar screen, but we couldn't fit it into the 1.0 release. I think it's safe to say that this is at the top of our 'things we need to add' list.

In the meantime, you may want to take a look at this thread on our user forum, which walks through some other approaches you can take while we work on this:

OmniFocus on Multiple Computers

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Friday, February 22 2008 @ 07:03 AM PST


Great potential but limited real-world use - foaf

A very helpful comment from the folks at OmniGroup, but honestly,there's no reasoning with this guy.

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Thursday, March 13 2008 @ 08:50 PM PDT