(OmniFocus for iPhone approaches the podium, holding back tears as the stage lights momentarily flare in brilliance. The crowd! The crowd!)“I'm just so flattered. Thank you. I don't know what to say! I'd like to thank the academy, my parents, their parents, Sir Laurence Olivier and Little Debbie snack cakes.”
(scroll to the bottom of the page for the iphone section)
That's right… it appears that OmniFocus for the iPhone is both cutting-edge and well dressed. We're super proud of this and can't wait to get it out there so that folks can start using it. Let's have a big round of applause for the team working on the iPhone app. They've been working serious amounts of crazy to get this ready and I am constantly picking my jaw up off the floor when they still, somehow, manage to find time to sneak in some really cool new feature.
For those of you that haven't seen the OmniFocus for iPhone preview page, take a look now. More coming soon.
Well! After an invigorating morning yesterday watching the live WWDC coverage I think we're all thinking the same thing: a script typeface, Apple? Really?
Oh, and apparently there's been some iPhone announcements, something about 3D? I have to admit I got distracted by the awesome metal box. What's in the box? What's in the boooooooox?
(HER PRETTY HEAD!)
Anyway, we have our own bit of news, now that the Great App Store Reveal has officially taken place. As we mentioned back in March, we've been working on OmniFocus for the iPhone—a native, location-aware app with live, automatic sync and custom actions based on your whereabouts.
Behold: IT LIVES.
We're still making some refinements, but OmniFocus for iPhone should be available on the App Store on or around launch time. Just one more reason to be counting down the days until July, people.
PS. Don't forget, there's an OmniFocus meetup tonight in S.F. at 6:30 PM. Come by and say hello if you're in the area!
For those of you planning on attending WWDC next week, clear your dance card for Tuesday evening, because Omni is throwing a HOT PARTY. Well, a MILDLY WARM party, anyway. Although, I guess it's not technically a party . . . more of, well, a get-together for OmniFocus users and those interested in learning more about OmniFocus.
Yeah, that's it: we're hosting a product-specific meetup—that's at least a few degrees above tepid! I hear Paris Hilton will be there.
Join us for a 90-minute OmniFocus discussion presented by everyone's favorite productivity expert and innappropriate-balloon-animal artist, Merlin Mann, and our own resident Smarty McPantserton, Ken Case. They'll be talking about new features in OmniFocus 1.1 (like Mac-to-Mac syncing), discussing other coming-soon items, answering questions (those which we can address without having to kill you, of course), and possibly performing a quick Russian squat kick dance for those who request it.
(No promises on that last one.)
Mark it on your calendars:
What: OmniFocus meetup
When: Tuesday, June 10th 2008, 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Where: W Hotel (map), San Francisco • 3rd Floor, Workroom 2
Please RSVP. Max capacity for the room is 150, so make sure you arrive on time to snag a good seat.
Howdy, howdy, howdy! The title of this post does not lie. OmniFocus 1.0.2 is now available. It includes some pretty neat things like localizations and bug fixes. To find out specifically what was fixed, please take a trip over to the release notes. To download the new version, please visit the OmniFocus page.
And as always, work continues! Thanks to those brave souls out there for all your feedback on the sneaky peek.
If coding were furniture making, we'd have heard the sounds of intense hammering, sawing, planing, the tap tap tap of the chisel, and, I suspect, occasional splintering and smashing of prototypes from Tim's office over the past few months. Sawdust would have piled high to the rafters and we would have stood outside the craftsman's door, waiting for the masterpiece to emerge.
In reality of course we heard mostly the gentle sounds of typing, muffled wails and occasional high volume electronica beats early in the morning, but masterpiece is the right word for the result.
Here's a shot of the prefs pane from the alpha build of OmniFocus that is, right now, this very minute, running on my desktop. I can now leave my laptop at home and have all my data sync up using not one, not two, but three different sync options.
Click the image below to view LIFE SIZE.
Still internal alpha for now, but we're planning on having this in the public sneaky peek before the release of Duke Nukem Forever or whenever Ken gets tired of waiting for it to be done.
Hey, friends. What is it that is up? We've just finished a new video about Perspectives over here. If you'd like to check it out, you can find it here.
If you'd like to check it out later, it can be found under 'Resources' on the OmniFocus page.
We've got a few more lined up and we'll be getting those out ASAP but if there's anything in particular you'd like to see for the future, please feel free to drop us a line or leave a note in the comments.
Hope you enjoy!
Good news, everyone! As the cryptic title suggests, OmniFocus 1.0.1 is now available. Here's a list of the haps:
- Stability
- Updated our error handling support to catch more cases where there is a possible problem and promote it to a crash, so that we can then fix it. Since OmniFocus always keeps its data in a saved state, the net effect of this is that any such exception won't be able to cause data corruption.
- Copy a workaround for a bug in Mac OS X 10.5 that can cause a crash when using the keyboard to navigate between cells in the outline.
- Fixed exception where committing editing on a row caused that row to be collated into a different group.
- Fixed a few glitches in the AppleScript suite that could cause scripting errors.
- Fixed exceptions when parsing some European date formats. Updated the date parsing to log details about the date format if there is a problem parsing a date, allowing the user to more easily gather the relevant information in the future.
- Fixed an occasional hang when performing a manual check for updates when no updates are available.
- Clicking on a link to a recently deleted task will no longer cause an error.
- We now ignore and log exceptions raised from Growl.
- Fixed bug causing the available/due soon/overdue timer to fire too often in some cases.
- iCal syncing will now deal with unnamed calendars.
- Interface
- The Perspectives menu now always has options to make a new perspective or save a snapshot of the current view settings into the current perspective.
- The Clear Perspective command has been folded into the Revert to Default View command, so you don't have to take two steps to get back to normal.
- Actions created in context mode should no longer appear to be missing their project, once it is assigned.
- Updated usage of shadows in the interface to match changes made in Mac OS X 10.5.
- Empty projects with a start date will now get the normal project icon once its start date passes instead of getting stuck with the 'pending' badge.
- The flag icon should now show up appropriately in HTML exports.
- Miscellaneous
- Various small updates to the online help.
- Turned off some debug logging in the Clip-o-Tron 3000.
- Software Update will now only show you builds on the same track that you are running. So, if you want to see sneakypeek builds, you'll need to manually download one sneakypeek build from the main OmniFocus site.
- Internationalization
- Fixed several issues that would prevent internationalization. No localizations are in place, but those are in progress for a future release.
And, as always, work continues. Thanks to all of those who helped out during the SneakyPeek!
A few hours ago, Apple announced the iPhone SDK! We're still trying to download it (Apple's servers are overloaded), but it looks like it has all the features we were hoping for.
We're eager to get started on our first iPhone app—and, yes, that first app will be… OmniFocus.
(Now to find out just exactly what we'll be able to do!)
I actually posted this to our website last week, but forgot to post this on the blog. Go me!We've had a tremendous response to OmniFocus, and despite bringing on two support ninjas over the last year to help out with it, we're still struggling. Frankly, that sucks. Solution: more hiring!Visit our jobs page for more information.
Exciting news! OmniFocus has won a Best in Show award at the Macworld Expo this year. Oh man, I LOVE Best in Show. You know, “Now tell me, which one of these dogs would you want to have as your wide receiver on your football team?”—seriously, such a great movie.
Er, wait. Wrong Best in Show. This is the annual Macworld feature presentation that honors those products that have pushed the boundaries of innovation, quality, and overall creativity. Well, that's even cooler than a mockumentary about dog shows. Here's what the good people at Macworld wrote about OmniFocus:
“Plenty of Mac programs will help you manage your to-do list (including a few that are built right into OS X), but OmniFocus ($80) is one of the nicest ones we’ve seen. Like many of these to-do apps, it’s optimized for the Getting Things Done task-management system: That means Omnifocus makes it easy to capture new to-do items anytime one occurs to you, and it lets you assign to-do items to both projects and contexts (the latter being GTD-speak for where or how you’ll accomplish the job). Omnifocus also integrates nicely with OS X: it’ll sync with iCal, you can add tasks via e-mail, and you can search your to-do list with Spotlight. You can view your upcoming tasks from multiple perspectives—by project, context, as part of a project-planning outline—yet the interface is nice and clean.”
Wow, right? BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE. Not only that, but it seems OmniFocus also received an Editor's Choice award from The Mac Observer. TMO's first Editor's Choice Awards include 12 products that they feel represent the best of the best of the products being shown at Macworld, and we're thrilled to be included on their list. They wrote:
“As with seemingly all of The Omni Group's products, the company has developed a very Mac-oriented solution with OmniFocus that works very well, is easy to use, and is a cut above competing products.”
Congratulations to the other Awards winners, and a huge thank you to Macworld and The Mac Observer for the honors!
