The Omni Group

Oh, this will be agonizing! I have beta testing experience; I backup every day to multiple drives; I'm still using KinklessGTD since it's the closest thing to OmniFocus from what I see; and yet it looks like I won't be getting my beta for weeks (months?) because I didn't hear about the beta email list until Feb 28th (by my records). ARGH!

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Given that this is a (semi-) public beta, how do the OmniFolks feel about people redistributing their copy?

I have two coworkers who are on the beta mailing list, and we figure that whoever gets the first email will give the other two a copy. Hopefully that would be okay

But what if someone put a copy on their website? Or on BitTorrent? (I'm not saying I want to do that, but it might take some load off of your servers…)

All the best beta testers signed up before November 2, 3:11 pm central time. You can trust me on this.  The rest of the folks will thank you if you leave them off the beta until the Nov 2 crowd sorts out all the problems. Did I mention NOV 2?

Oh sweet lord I didn't even know the mailing list existed until last week

So far things are going really well and we hope to add people fairly quickly. Thanks for the patience!

I didn't have signing up to the list on my to do list until February! :-(

Thanks for getting the alpha out the door, even if it's not entering mine (yet).

I've seen both screencasts; wondering what kind of sharing features there might be, or perhaps that's one for version 2.0. Networkable shareable projects with some form of user-action assignment (like: user A decides he's going to pick up everything the group needs at office depot) could be a better solution for some small workgroups (or families for that matter) than full fledged project mgmt software. I know my wife and I don't really need to draw out gantt charts! However if we had a common list of all things long term and short term it would be something

I don't know if I'm going to make it…

I need it like a fat kid needs cake

Any chance you can give us a schedule for when you might be sending emails to those of us who join… oh, to pick a date at random… three weeks ago? Please? Just a hint? It'll make waiting less painful if we know how long we have to wait.

I think you should add priority to those of us who own multiple Omni products (Graffle Pro & Outliner Pro here) Soon to be OmniFocus if I ever get a Beta.

Hate to be a grammar-dweeb, but apostrophes are not signals that an 's' is coming:

“... even briefly demo’s how to change styles.”

This is looking great.  Couple of things I'd really like to see, but that are not pure-GTD.

I'm using OmniOutliner for GTD at the moment.

1. When I check something off I like to drag it to an 'archive' section.  I'd love an option to keep a (e.g. spotlight) searchable history of completed tasks.  I don't use it much, but I sleep easier knowing I can go back and look if I have to.

2. I used to track events on a custom event tracker web page that I created that gives you how many months, weeks, days until the due date of each task (filterable by project).  I still miss being able to order things by when they're due or seeing roughly how far away it is.  I write a due date into items in my 'tickler' category.

3. Related to the above it'd be handy to track the time since the event was added for certain projects or events too.  Similar to the above this is just another factor I'd like to be able to take into account when prioritorising next actions.  Maybe even put in 'remind me' type tickles/alerts (a la stikkit.com, remind me ).

Thoughts?  Good luck with the project.