The Omni Group

Just wanted to add my congratulations to the version 1.0 release. I've been using the beta for sometime and I can say that this is a great product that has taken a central place in my workflow - great job!

Eddie- Much of the new stuff is going to require 10.5, and it's pretty confusing for customers when 1.0 works on their machine, but 1.x doesn't.

Congratulations :D

Big, big congratulations - you really need to be celebrated! That was a long way! And please don't forget us iPhone users (as soon as Apple allows you ;-))

[...] just days after I wrote this Omni have announced 1.0.  So if you haven’t already bought it you’ve missed out on the half price beta offer.  [...]

OmniFocus looks interesting. . . but, honestly, it's not worth $80. It just doesn't quite have that “x factor” that would put me over the top to buy it. I find myself, time after time, trying to do something that OF doesn't permit. Obviously, we're just not on the same page. I might still buy it if it were 40 bucks and use it while it matures. At 80, it doesn't offer me enough.

Eventually, it'll be a great program just like all your others but not yet.

Good luck.

Congratulations.

I've started using it and have high hopes, but I second the need for more tutorials and a manual, especially for those of us who never read GTD.

For example, I want to get all our sales proposals in there. I thought I would make each prospective client a project. The problem is that for each project the tasks are the same—create proposal, send proposal, follow-up if deal has not closed.

So when I look at the Email:Sales Context every task is identical—albeit with the project listed on the right.

Does this sound like the right way to enter sales proposals? Thank you.

I started putting all the things i need to do into Omni Focus 1.0 last night - it's a great piece of software but my life is so depressing looking at what I need to do! Can we have an ignorant bliss button please that puts everything into hiatus for a day or two?

Neil, that sounds like the right way to enter sales proposals.  The problem is that OmniFocus' “context” view doesn't display any actual contextual information, just the task.  The old Ecco Pro application for Windows solved this problem by displaying greyed-out versions of the hierarchy the task comes from in views like this.  (It called these “context parents”, but that wording is somewhat misleading because “context” has a special meaning to GTDers.  Think of this information as “contextual parents.”)

Anyway, this sort of thing is missing from OmniFocus, which is another reason why context view (and iCal syncing as well) is hard to use in practice.

I echo Simon's concern for OmniFocus-induced shock - too much to do! But I'm comforted by OmniFocus keeping track of everything and helping me focus on the right thing, right now.

The price tag may deter casual users.  Perhaps, like other Omni Apps, there could be a standard and Pro editions—one for managing household tasks and one for managing your whole life.

[...] few days saw two big announcements related to Macintosh GTD software. Yesterday, The Omni Group announced the release of version 1.0 of OmniFocus. I have been using OmniFocus since the private beta, and [...]

Looking forward to seeing the iPhone webserver that was present in the beta back in action. This will make it a complete app for me. I've already purchased but will get much more use with that server back on it!

Keep up the good work.