Posts tagged ‘omnifocus’

OmniFocus bug fixes

The OmniFocus bug I described in this post on Monday, has been fixed. The “Sneaky Peek” version of OmniFocus 1.1 (necessary if you want to sync your tasks with your iPhone) no longer retains focus when you shift out of the Space it’s in. As mentioned in the updates at the bottom of that post,…


OmniFocus takes its name too literally

If you use OmniFocus for the iPhone and OmniFocus for the Mac, you’ll certainly want the two task lists to stay in sync. At present, the only way to do that is to use an unstable, “unreleased” version 1.1 of OmniFocus for the the Mac. Omni cutely calls this a “Sneaky Peek” build of version…


Jott and OmniFocus

Although I recently decided that Jott’s iPhone app was of no use to me, I still like and use the service. I recently made some changes to my OmniFocus and Mail setup to allow me to add tasks to OmniFocus via Jott. With these changes, I can call Jott, dictate a new task, and see…


iPhone 2.0 and App Store—First impressions

I downloaded and installed the iPhone 2.0 upgrade today using this tip from the Unofficial Apple WebLog and then installed a few apps from the App Store. Here’s a couple of sentences on several things I learned or saw: The upgrade to 2.0 went flawlessly for me. The iPhone data were backed up, then the…


Repeating dates in OmniFocus and iCal

In trying to create a repeating OmniFocus task, I learned that its handling of repeating dates is pretty rudimentary. iCal is much better, but is still lacking some niceties that can come in handy. My company uses an outside bookkeeper who comes to our office on the last Friday of every month to do the…


OmniFocus and OmniOutliner Pro

My free test period for OmniFocus ran out today and I couldn’t open my GTD lists. This bothered me, which I took to be a sign that it’s a program I really use and should buy. OmniFocus normally sells for $80, but if you’re a licensed owner of OmniOutliner Pro, you can buy OmniFocus for…