Focus . . . on your desktop background

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by Linda Sharps on July 19, 2007

Last I heard, we've added 82% of the total mailing list subscribers to the OmniFocus Sneaky Peek List, so if you subscribed before June 6 you should have received an invitation by now. If you signed up more recently, hang in there—we promise we'll add you soon! We try and add a bunch more people each time we notice that the sobs and desk-poundings coming from the support room have quieted down a bit.

In the meantime our graphics guru has created a spiffy desktop design for OmniFocus, should you wish to bask more fully in All Things Omni (next up: Omni-branded blinking pens, novelty trucker hats, foundation garments, etc). Why, you can even put it on your iPhone, you wacky customizer you.

MEDICAL NOTE: people with extreme aversions to purple should avoid this graphic, along with Prince, “Grapelicious” tanning lotion, and dopey talking dinosaurs.

iPod-sized graphic (click to embiggen):

Grab the rest of the sizes here.

Comments

Sigh. Having this background on my iPhone just makes me more depressed that my primary computer is a laptop and thus I am unable to share in the web interface love-in.

SkylarP

07.20.07 3:21 AM

Please hurry up with OmniFocus. This is taking far too long and in the meantime we all become more disorganised.

Scott

07.20.07 7:25 PM

Seems to be something wrong with your blog: every page has the same posts on it.

See /page/2/ for example.

Matt Schinckel

07.20.07 10:40 PM

I've been signed up for the mailing list since way before June, but still no invite. Guess there's no hope? :(

Tim

07.21.07 12:24 PM

Great work from the graphics guru!

I'm standing in the line to receive an invatation, anxious to get my hands and tasks into OmniFocus!

José Tiburcio Ribeiro Netto

07.23.07 7:50 AM

I would totally wear an Omni trucker hat!

MiGrant

07.24.07 8:56 AM

Like Tim, I have signed up way before June (21 April!!!), but I still have not received any invite.

Pascal Venier

07.24.07 9:35 AM

I see in the FAQ the difference between OmniFocus and OmniPlan.

What is the difference between OmniFocus and OmniOutliner?

Jeff

07.24.07 2:49 PM

Tim and Pascal - more than a few folks have had their invites spam filtered. If you think you should have recieved an invite by now, email omnifocus@omnigroup.com and we can resend the info.

Brian

07.25.07 5:57 PM

Jeff - OmniOutliner can be used as a task organizer, but it's not focused on that specific task. It can also be used as a lightweight spreadsheet, for word-processor style tasks….

There is some feature overlap between the two; they both manipulate information in a roughly tabular format. But you're not going to be keeping track of your record collection in OmniFocus, and OmniOutliner, being a traditional document-based application, doesn't save all the information about your tasks without you needing to tell it to do so. You change something; it gets saved. You add something? Saved right away.

Ask anyone that used Kinkless GTD - a set of Outliner applescripts that did the same sort of stuff that focus does - about why not having a synch button in OmniFocus is such a big deal. ;-)

Brian

07.25.07 6:12 PM

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