Description
Winner of the 2008 Apple Design Award for Best iPhone Productivity Application, OmniFocus brings task management to your fingertips. Keep track of tasks by project, place, person, or date. Bring up a shopping list, agenda items to discuss at work, things to do at home, and any other lists you need.
"OmniFocus for the iPhone is one of the best examples of a great iPhone app that I've seen. The interface is simple, intuitive, and it just lets you get your stuff done." — iPhone Alley Editors Choice Award 2009, ★★★★★
"Finding the right application to manage your tasks is great, and it's even better when there's a companion app for your iPhone or iPod touch. OmniFocus for the iPhone is a perfect example: It fits well with its Desktop brother, includes the features you need to organize your tasks, builds task lists based on your current location, captures voice notes and pictures, and synchronizes with your Mac via MobileMe or WebDAV servers. " — Mac Observer Editors Choice Award 2009
OmniFocus synchronizes wirelessly with OmniFocus for Mac, either locally over Wi-Fi (with pushed updates) or remotely through the cloud (using MobileMe or a WebDAV server). OmniFocus uses calendar notifications to help you remember due dates, even when you're offline!
Want to learn more? Please watch the video on our web site, or try OmniFocus on an iPhone at an Apple Store near you!
SUPPORT OPTIONS
If you have any feedback or questions, we'd love to hear from you! The Omni Group offers free tech support: you can reach us by email at omnifocus@omnigroup.com, and by phone at 1-800-315-OMNI or +1 206-523-4152. (In particular, please don't put up with slow launch or sync times—our tech support ninjas can help you fix those.)
Thank you!
What's New in Version 1.6.1
OmniFocus 1.6.1 is a minor update to OmniFocus which focuses on enhancements to the experimental perspectives introduced in 1.6. It also adds support for links to perspectives and searches, and fixes some bugs with localizations, interface polish, notifications, and stability.
We’re really excited about Apple’s iPad, and we plan to adapt OmniFocus to it along with our other Mac productivity apps: OmniGraffle, OmniGraphSketcher, OmniOutliner, and OmniPlan. For more details about our iPad plans, please visit omnigroup.com and follow the link to our blog.
Perspectives
• Perspectives now support "No Context" being selected in the sidebar.
• Perspectives no longer show projects or action groups by default.
• Perspectives can display items from the Inbox.
• Fixed a bug where recently-edited items wouldn't appear in perspectives right away.
• Fixed flagged and duration-filter perspectives to stop showing parents of matching items.
• Perspectives now implement the "Due Soon" and "Due Soon or Flagged" status filters.
• Perspectives will now pay attention to saved searches.
OmniFocus Links
• Added support for links to perspectives (e.g. omnifocus:///perspective/Completed).
• Added support for links to the Search screen (e.g. omnifocus:///search?q=OmniFocus).
• Added support for changing synchronized settings through settings links like these:
• omnifocus:///change-setting?ContextModeShowsParents=true
• omnifocus:///change-setting?DefaultDueTime=22:00
Localizations
• Updated the localizations for German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, and Simplified Chinese.
• Fixed a bug where the Record Audio button wouldn't work when the language was French unless the device was rotated to landscape mode.
• Fixed a similar bug where the Business Search and Always Available context location options wouldn't work when the language was set to Italian, unless the device was rotated to landscape mode.
Interface Polish
• Fixed a bug where the Edit button would fail to appear or disappear when updating a list of items on the screen.
• Fixed a bug where the Search screen would briefly display the status "No Results Found" before showing all the matching results.
• Toolbar icons should no longer shift when entering action detail screens.
• The text on the welcome screen is no longer slightly cropped.
Notifications
• Fixed a bug where calendar notifications wouldn't display in iCal in the UK Region unless 24 hour mode was turned on.
Stability
• Fixed a crash encountered when trying to delete a location from the Nearby List.
• Fixed a crash encountered when adding a new action and saving without entering any information.
• The Perspectives list will no longer crash when a perspective's icon attachment is missing from the database.
We love hearing from you! You can reach us by tapping Send Feedback on the Settings screen, sending email to omnifocus-iphone@omnigroup.com, tweeting to @omnifocus, or calling 1-800-315-OMNI or +1 206-523-4152.
Customer Reviews
Great for power users of GTD; big disappointment for others
Don't buy this unless you're already a user and fan of the desktop edition of OmniFocus.
Launching OmniFocus is like dropping into the cockpit of a $270,000 performance sports car. People who know how to use it will (correctly) insist that there is no greater articulation of elegance, power and performance on the road today.
The AVERAGE user will sit there in the parking lot getting increasingly frustrated and wondering why the bloody hell they can't get it moving. The performance user in the passenger seat will assure you that once you watch a demo video and read a book that explains the philosophy of the car, you'll get the hang of it. The average user will then say "I have to take a weekend course just to successfully drive 18 miles to the Waffle Hut?"
Suffice to say that I've spent about a half an hour with OmniFocus and I still have no idea how to make it show me every task I've entered that's related to writing.
So: OmniFocus and hardcore GTD fans, rejoice. Everyone else: avoid.
OmniFocused Explained
So I installed this and thought the location feature was cool... I then downloaded a trial of the desktop software and followed the sample tasks directions to learn about omnifocus, including watching their intro video that explains it. It is not that complicated once you have them show you around like that. There are several simple checklist software for the iPhone available, if that is what you are looking for, go elsewhere.
Here's the short version: Projects=Anything that requires more than 1 physical action (ex. cleaning out garage), Contexts=Locations where you perform actions (Home), Action= a Task or a single, physical action to be completed (buy shelves for garage).
Steps to using OmniFocus iPhone:
1. Create a Context for each major location that you perform lots of actions (Home, Work, Mac, Phone (for calls, etc.) - you can even nest these (Phone under Work, and Phone under Home). If the Context has a physical location then put in the address to use GPS side of software (ie for Home enter your home address).
2. dump your brain into inbox - get all the stuff out of your head and into OmniFocus, but don't worry about contexts or projects just yet.
3. Then go through everything in your inbox and group the items into projects if possible
Here is what makes this stand out:
1. Synching to a desktop program
2. GPS aware contexts (locations where you perform actions) - Nearby tasks to perform
3. Desktop software is fast and easy to enter in tasks - much faster than any web-based GTD solution.
4. Has inbox add button readily available, for those random tasks that pop into your head.
5. has GPS button readily available to quickly see what Actions are nearby.
6. Action entry is quick, touch the Add button, type the task, then touch save. Other software you have to touch Add, Title, type task, touch save, then touch save.
There are some web-based apps like Remember the Milk, and Toodledo, but I personally think software is better than web-based because no matter how fast your internet connection is it is not as fast as your computer. The only advantage of web-based software is if you have multiple computers, but synching in OmniFocus overcomes that hurdle.
Competitors:
Things - not polished, too many steps to enter stuff. I found it to be buggy and didn't sync yet. The desktop software is beta while omnifocus is developed and used by some of the top GTD gurus for a reason. They get things done.
Todo - Works well with Toodledo, but toodledo is more complicated than omnifocus IMHO. No location awareness.
Bottom-line the software does help me focus. Normally I have so many random tasks and thoughts in my brain, of things I need to do, that I easily get sidetracked. With GTD and OmniFocus I now am sticking to my task lists in the current context and get them done. I always know what I need to do next by looking at my iPhone, rather than digging into my head that has a thousand projects to be done. Now my head is clearer, and I no longer feel the need to do things out of context (do work at home or do personal stuff ot work). I am no longer distracted by "oh no! I need to..." that used to pop up in my head and interupt whatever I was doing at the time. Those are all out of my head and into digital form.
Drop $100 and get the desktop and iPhone versions. If time is money, then this is worth much more... What's your time worth?
Very Close to the Perfect App
I was a little disappointed to see OmniFocus at $19.99 after paying the big bucks for the Mac version only about a year ago, but this app is worth every penny. OmniGroup did an incredible job, and thought of everything.
OmniFocus on the Mac was good, but I'm often out of reach of my computer, so it wasn't perfect. Putting that power in the palm of my hand...now that's perfect.
Great job, guys! Absolutely brilliant.
- Category: Productivity
- Updated Feb 09, 2010
- Current Version: 1.6.1
- 1.7 MB
- Languages: English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish
- Seller: The Omni Group
- © 2008-2009
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
