The Omni Group

Hmmmm, now is that an Omni pencil cup, or coffee cup? :)

Or is it something else entirely, like a mysterious Can of OmniWhoopAss?

It's an omnicoffeemaker!

For those who don't have an espresso machine, just a cafetiere, it tells you how long to leave the coffee brewing. There is an optional USB espresso device (Note: needs powered USB socket) for those that need it.

[...] I spent the last week on vacation with my family (mostly in Disneyland Paris) and arrived back yesterday. I'm hoping that over tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday we'll get our server organised and everything set up ready for the SyncBridge beta. As long as we announce before Omni announces their new product I'll be happy :-) [...]

Guesses:

(one) OmniDraw.

(two) OmniStamp. (I have no idea what this might do, but that looks like it could be a stamp.)

(three) OmniDoorknob.

i don't have a guess as to the new product, but i would just like to say i'd be VERY excited to see something GTD oriented.

*Please* make a GTD app together with Ethan and Merlin. kgtd.app without sync and so long. i would LOVE it and buy it right away. Merlinn and Ethan are my heros and the only reason I'm getting *anything* done atm. Cheers

You have not yet denied it might be Oni 2. There is still hope then :-D

I'm guessing it's either a spreadsheet/financial management application or a web editor.  I would love it if it were some form of project management app a la ProjectX…

OmniBucket. Collect all your projects into one place.

Well, I'm probably too late even for a piece of cake ... I don't eat cake, but I could give it to the young lady next door :D

Not a GTD implementation ... I wouldn't have guessed that anyway. I imagine an information organiser, something akin to Yojimbo, partly 'cos I too have just laid out the sponduliks on that one! And Omni would do it even better and I'd buy the Omni one and have to pass Yojimbo on to my wife, whose needs in this line are less than mine. And anyway, there's a line on that bit of the icon which makes it look like a grid/columns ...

But once again, what I'd really like is a great Omni-style SPREADSHEET. Mariner Calc is OK, but I want cocoa, not carbon! Mesa 3 would be there, but it still won't handle CJK fonts.

Hey ... if this is not OmniSpread/OmniSheet, Omnifolks, why don't you get in touch with the bods at plsys.co.uk, buy Mesa 3 from them and turn it into the killer spreadsheet that it could be!

Mark desperate for a cocoa spreadsheet that'll handle Chinese!

OmniPage

If I had only one guess I'd say OmniPaint. If I had more guesses, I'd also say a web-page maker or an incon maker.

OmniPotent

The most powerful computer program ever created—working at the root level, it knows your every thought and executes it without the need for any user input.

Cat is out of the bag…

(Yes, I can put one + one + one together).

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8300945231/m/636007549731/p/5

:)

Does this get me on the beta list or banned from all things Omni for 7 years?

BZ

Personally, I would love a nice, cocoa based spreadsheet program. A cocoa based Filemaker Pro-like program using SQLite as a backend would be nice too.

I'm guessing it's a personal publishing client—OmniEdit—implementing Dave Winer's idea that blogs fit well with the outliner metaphor. Please? Pretty please?

Is it OmniDrunkenBatman? 

Every time you launch the app it crashes Safari…

I've barely been able to contain myself since reading this yesterday.  I'm very excited by the prospect of an Omni GTD app.

To be usable, any GTD app needs an essential feature:  it must provide some way to me to look at my tasks when I am away from my Mac.

Many of us have Macs at home an other OS's at work.  Most days I commute with my PowerBook, but I'd rather not be required to.  Even people with a Mac at work would need some way of getting their tasks from one location to another.

Now there are a lot of ways to fulfill this requirement.  A few that come to mind are:

1) Syncing with iCal means the task data can go everywhere that iCal data does.  One more step and my tasks are synced to my Treo.  kGTD's implementation of this was a great idea.  Unfortunately, it is clunky and unreliable.  I find that I lose changes unless I am very careful in how I do things.  Sooner or later, I need to ditch kGTD because of this unreliability.

2) Another approach is some form of HTML export.  Personally, I could stick the exported pages on my webserver.  Others could copy them to iPods, thumb drives, etc.  Because the data transfer is one-way, it means users have some extra work when they are back at their Macs.  HTML export isn't the most poweful means of remote access to tasks, but it may be the easiest to implement.

3) Let's not forget good old fashioned paper.  If you've been looking at GTD, you've probably noticed that many nerds fetishize 3x5 cards.  Remember that users will probably need to print daily, so the process has to be dirt simple.  If I have to do it when I've overslept, the cats are unfed, and I can't find my keys, then anything more than Command-P followed by return is too much work.  Better yet, do it with a timer, so the cards are ready when my alarm goes off. 

When it comes to printing:  don't forget that people print other things besides their 3x5 cards.  You'll need to seamlessly set the print parameters for 3x5 and then back to their previous settings afterwards.  Otherwise, people will get annoyed and won't use it.

4) The Ferrari of portability is seamless synchronization with a web back-end. 

Have you ever used a TMobile Sidekick?  Go find somebody with one and ask them to show it off.  For all the faults of the device, it contains at least one stroke of brilliance.  All data on a Sidekick is continuously synced with back-end servers.  TMobile (well, Danger, really) then provides a web interface to that same data.  Add an appointment through the web app and it magically appears on the device by the time you pick it up.  Delete a contact and next time you go to the web app, that contact will be gone.

Taking on that whole magilla is a lot of work.  Omni would really have to create *two* apps, then get them to work together.  Plus your revenue models and support infrastructure are all built around sales rather than subscriptions.  I'm not getting my hopes up on this one.

Perhaps there is a way to ease the pain?  I know of at least three open source GTD web-apps that would provide good starting points.  Perhaps Omni could simply define a GTD sync API and leave the other half of the equation to others.

OmniBush?

You launch the app, and it immediately attacks all other computers in the vicinity…

Wait a minute, I've got it (and this time I'm being serious, my last comic was being funny). It's a blogging app. :)

Oh, it's obviously OmniBlackBottleOnYellowLinoleum

A suggestion for a future, missing app: A workout tracking solution. Nothing really good around for the mac.

My guess: OmniIdealizer

Icon: A hand grasping a light bulb

Description: A collaborative brainstorming, organizing, project management application (tightly integrated with OmniOutliner and OmniGraffle, of course).

*sigh* I sooooooo wish I were right. I'd kill for a tool like that right now…

OmniPresent - Force Quit won't work, restart and power off won't even work - it's ALWAYS THERE!

(of course, pronounced differently, it could be a PowerPoint killer)

“Our powerful, extensible solution creates a paradigm shift in infrastructure core competencies”

Ooh, ooh, can I have one of those, please? With paradigm sprinkles? My core competencies have been in need of some sort of shift for a long time, and your powerful solution sounds creatively extensible. I just hope it's compatible with my infrastructure and Futurama DVD's.

OmniBlog

OmniPizzle, my bizzles!

Seriously, where's my invite. You all know I am right.

I also vote for project management, bridging MS Project data to the Mac in a similar way that OG has done with Visio.

Or, my second guess would be more of a OneNote-like app, but that would just be odd with OO sitting right there with its orange icon.

I'd say OmniPaint as well. That's a bucket of paint and the yellow thing is some kind of canvas.

At least I hope it would be some kind of Photoshop killer. That would rock. Especially for us MacTel users.

Project Management or hot chocolate recipe….

Maybe both!

While I'm going to download and play with the OmniPlan, I doubt that the “creative” individual—writer, student, academic, researcher, etc.—would find it as useful as the GTD development idea mentioned above. I am using kGTD now, but we haven't heard from Ethan for a while; which is fine, because it's freeware, and he's not obliged. However, I'd be more than willing to have the idea professionally developed and sustained for those of us who want such a paradigm, without having to do the whole gnatt chart thing. OmniPlan: organizations; OmniGTD: individuals. Hope it comes about.