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OmniFocus helps you manage 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.
Have a look at our "At -a-glance" Quick Reference Chart in .pdf format.
Have a look at our "At -a-glance" Quick Reference Chart in .pdf format.
What's New
Version 1.10.1:
- Corrects a problem which resulted in repeated keychain access prompts on Mac OS X 10.6 and earlier.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later
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| Downloads:35,028 |
| Version Downloads:1,967 |
| Type:Business : Applications |
| License:Demo |
| Date:17 Mar 2012 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $79.95 |
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OmniFocus helps you manage 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.
Have a look at our "At -a-glance" Quick Reference Chart in .pdf format.
Have a look at our "At -a-glance" Quick Reference Chart in .pdf format.
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Sien reviewed on 23 Apr 2012
When I tried OmniFocus its interface looked quite complex and seemed to lack some polish at first, but after some time I realized how mighty and well-thought-out it this program is.
I don't use the GTD methodology but a different approach. Nevertheless OmniFocus is perfectly able to handle it (- unlike Things and THL).
IMHO its flexibility is the reason why it's the superior task organizing tool for Mac: I can group tasks into different folders (in my case these are my different "roles" in life) and create endlessly nested subtasks (breaking down big tasks into manageable pieces). Contexts allow to further refine the task structure. Different "views" can be configured, saved and reused in order to quickly gain the perfect overview in different situations.
The syncing with the iPhone App works flawlessly, smoothly and reliably.
For me this app is almost perfect and really helps me to keep up with a bunch of different tasks and duties using my own methods.
The only thing I'm still missing is the possibility to create subtasks within subtasks using the iPhone app. It can show and edit those nested subtasks, but I have to create the nested structure on the desktop app. But that's rather a concern with the iPhone app than with the desktop app.
All in all I love this program. Yes, it is relatively expensive but its flexibility makes up for it. It really helped me to increase my productivity.
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Tschigg reviewed on 18 Mar 2012
Minor problem for latest version: To use the new "repeating actions" you need OF for iPhone 1.14 (which is not available in the store, yet). Fail.
Full Release Notes:
v1.10.1: March 16 2012
* OmniFocus 1.10.1 for Mac corrects a problem which resulted in repeated keychain access prompts on OS X 10.6 and earlier.
* OmniFocus 1.10 for Mac adds flexible weekly repeats, updates the application icon, and fixes a handful of reported issues.
Repeating Actions
* Added flexible weekly repeats. When a project or action repeats every week, you can specify the days of the week the item should repeat on.
For example: repeat every week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
* Important: Please update to OmniFocus 1.14 for iPhone and OmniFocus 1.5 for iPad before using these new weekday repeats. Older releases of OmniFocus do not understand this new repeat data. If you edit or complete one of these items using a previous release of OmniFocus, you will lose the weekday repeat specification.
Miscellaneous
* Updated the application icon.
* Fixed a bug which resulted in a “Cannot overwrite file” error for some users when adding items to OmniFocus on OS X Lion.
* Fixed date parsing in the Inspector for users with a custom time format using period as the delimiter.
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Llongley reviewed on 12 Mar 2012
But now it seems OF has (without a formal final statement) decided to no longer sync with ical and ical reminders. I use Busy Cal but needed the ical sync to populate my calendar.
Of seems to believe that all one needs is their software to operate and that is just not true for many. I am very busy as a parent, manager, wife member of several organization, etc. And while I use OF to plan projects and other things it doe not work as an appointment scheduler. When I could sync my OF tasks into my calendar scheduling was a breeze. Now it back and forth between he two programs or double scheduling and having to fix later.
The program that was designed to keep me organized had made it impossible for me to quickly respond to an appointment request??? I should not have to check OF before I can schedule a meeting of my sons soccer team. Many other (especially those that are iPad/iPhone based) programs offer calendar/reminder sync in iCloud. Not sure why this seems to be a deal breaker with OF. There is a life outside OF! And as much as I love this program I may have to drop it if they do not become more responsive to this need. Very sad about this as like I said I love this program or at least I used to. It is also in desperate need of a UI upgrade.
MacUpdate: Why or Why can I not change my rating before I submit???? So Annoying!! This should be a 4.5 rating
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iCal [and BusyCal] syncing works fine for me. I'm still using Snow Leopard, though. Maybe it doesn't work in Lion?
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Agree with your MU rant ;)
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Mathias-Rhein reviewed on 09 Nov 2011
Going through the process of what software is fitting my organization concept best I compared OF with Things and THL- the latter has some neat input options but lacks good (and affordable) syncing, Things has the most beautiful interface and looks a lot cleaner compared to OF, but is simply not possible to handle the complexity of my planning efforts, especially at work.
The biggest advantages of this not-so-easy-to-get-started-with software is the robust syncing option through any WebDAV and the complexity one can apply to the structure.
Sync is fast and robust, no data loss ever until now.
Actions can be divided into subtasks and on the top level Folders enable You to group things into logical groups. The view is the most versatile and flexible piece of work: You set all the parameters and then simply save the perspective- this way You can create VERY individual filters that suit the need of the advanced and serious planner. Supposedly, for everyone else the interface is to confusing, as you can also see from the reviews below- these people might be better off with Things... but You will have to settle with mediocre syncing and less power, when the tasks are getting bigger and more complex.
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MadEye29 reviewed on 03 Oct 2011
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The remarks concerning the calendar integration are a bit two-edged cause basically, OmniFocus is not about events but task organization. I am always having iCal and OF simultaneously in horizontal split which gives me the opportunity to edit my events according to my task outlines. Surely better integration would be nice but since You can even just drag and drop tasks onto the calendar, this is as feasible as it gets.
For tasks with a due date you can activate a special OF task calendar in iCal which synchronizes with OF and displays due tasks at their according time.
Further cross- integration is currently being implemented as You look at the iOS versions of OF- the company already stated that Forecast view (which beats anything I have to date seen in terms of task planning) will be an integral part of OF 2.
All in all your post is a perfect example of what happens if someone espects OF to reduce chaos in Your life- instead it adapts so perfectly that it reflects your chaos to you... this might be sobering but that‘s actually the hallmark of good software- it shapes around you not the other way around.
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Dillinger-63 reviewed on 19 Sep 2011
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Has OminGroup publicly announced when 2.0 will/might be available, or have you contacted them directly to ask?
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They haven't publicly announced it as far as I know. I was basing my conjecture on the fact that the version number is up to 1.9.3 and that they recently released 2.0 of OmniPlan. Haven't asked them directly yet, but if I don't get a response here I'll try that.
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Maclover1.1 reviewed on 28 Jul 2011
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Xplicit reviewed on 22 Jun 2011
2. Syncs
3. Not that complicated to use as I thought
4. A little expensive, but A) see 1. and B) it has several sync choices, some for free
Novmax rated on 18 Mar 2012
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Pmdf rated on 21 Dec 2011
Ricardo_griffith_2008 rated on 05 Dec 2011
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Emrys0821 rated on 25 Nov 2011
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Leonledragon rated on 07 Nov 2011
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Anon-Bud rated on 27 Oct 2011
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hugelshofer rated on 25 Oct 2011
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Vandulus rated on 07 Sep 2011
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hugelshofer rated on 07 Sep 2011