Omni’s Plans for 2013

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by Ken Case on December 21, 2012

In my last blog post, I reflected on all the things we accomplished in 2012 here at Omni—in particular, the completion of our huge “iPad or Bust!” initiative. But as Professor Hathaway said to Chris Knight, “That was yesterday. What have you done for me today?”

With “iPad or Bust!” out of the way, we’ve been able to move some of our projects off the back burner and here are some highlights of what’s coming: OmniFocus 2. OmniOutliner 4. Automatic document syncing. Sandboxing. Accessibility. Visio and Microsoft Project compatibility in our iPad apps. Upgrade pricing from Mac App Store apps.

Junction: Omni 13, OmniFocus 2, OmniOutliner 4

Let’s start with OmniFocus 2! For OmniFocus 2, we’re bringing back to the Mac all of the design and innovation that went into our iPad edition of OmniFocus: dedicated Forecast and Review modes, clearer navigation, and a fresh look and feel. I’m looking forward to sharing it with you! At 6pm on January 31, you’re invited to join Merlin Mann, David Sparks, and me for the first public debut of OmniFocus 2. This will be a free event, hosted at the Cartoon Art Museum (a short walk from Macworld/iWorld), and anyone who attends will get early access to the OmniFocus 2 private beta. Space is limited, so if you plan to attend please let us know.

Next up: OmniOutliner 4! I know many of you have been waiting for this upgrade for a long time—I know I have been waiting for this for a long time! For those of you who might not know the history, OmniOutliner 3 shipped in January, 2005—one year before Macs transitioned to Intel processors. And OmniOutliner 3 certainly hasn’t sat still over the last eight years: we’ve ported to Intel processors and added support for Spotlight, dictionary lookups, LinkBack, Automator workflows, Quick Look, custom toolbars, Word 2008 export, Auto Save, and Versions. But other than a few tweaks to the inspectors and toolbars, its design has mostly stayed the same: it’s starting to feel a bit long in the tooth. So… it’s due.

What’s coming in OmniOutliner 4? We’ve completely rebuilt the outlining engine to support zooming text, showing and hiding columns, and we’ve improved link handling and attachments. We’ve designed a new style system which emphasizes named styles and simplifies the styles interface. And it’s built on a modern 64-bit architecture, with a fresh new look and feel. OmniOutliner 4 isn’t finished yet, but it’s getting close: it’s now at the point where I’m using it to edit all my outlines rather than OmniOutliner 3, so I anticipate we’ll be ready for public beta sometime in the first quarter.

Automatic document syncing is almost here! We call it “OmniPresence”: your documents, synced everywhere you want them to be.

We’ve designed OmniPresence around open web protocols, so you’re welcome to use our free Omni Sync Server or to host your own cloud server. We think that the option to host your own cloud is important—not just because of concerns with respect to privacy and security (though that’s key for many businesses), but because it means you can keep that cloud running as long as you want to keep using it. As we saw with MobileMe shutting down earlier this year, individual cloud services can easily disappear as business models change. Building a solution around open standards means that our customers have a choice of hosting providers rather than being tied to a single ephemeral cloud solution.

OmniPresence is not limited to syncing with a single cloud, either: you can choose which folders to sync with which clouds. This means that teams can set up separate folders in separate clouds, and you can access files from any of them on each of your devices.

Because it’s open and you can host your own cloud, OmniPresence is designed to sync any documents you want: it’s not limited to syncing documents created by our apps. In fact, on the desktop OmniPresence is completely independent of our other apps: if you wish, you can use it to sync TextEdit documents! (But when using OmniPresence with non-Omni apps, we’ll ask that you limit the amount of space you use on our Omni Sync Server since we can’t provide infinite storage to everyone for free. On your own cloud server, though, do whatever you want!)

On iOS, OmniPresence isn’t quite that independent: the sandboxing environment requires that each app embed the OmniPresence logic within its own codebase. We will be publishing our source code for free so other developers can add it to their apps.

OmniFocus 2, OmniOutliner 4, and OmniPresence. Three major upgrades, all coming your way in Q1, 2013.

But as I noted at the top, that’s not all! We’re also working on sandboxing to help keep your Mac safe; and accessibility (currently in private beta for OmniOutliner for iPad) to make our apps easier to use by those who are visually impaired. And we’ve been working on adding Visio and Microsoft Project compatibility to our iPad apps, so it will be easier than ever to go completely mobile with your work.

Finally, with OmniFocus 2 coming we’ve been thinking a lot about how to implement upgrade pricing from Mac App Store apps. As always, we plan to offer discounted upgrade pricing on our own online store, but unfortunately we don’t have the flexibility to offer selective discounts in the Mac App Store. We’ve decided to treat the Mac App Store the same way as we treat retail stores: it’s a great way to discover our software, and can give you confidence that it’s been vetted by a third party. And, just as you wouldn’t get a discount from a retail store if you purchase OmniGraffle 5 while owning OmniGraffle 4, you won’t get a discount if you purchase OmniFocus 2 from the Mac App Store. But we’re in the process of updating our store so that you’ll be able to register your Mac App Store apps to get a discounted upgrade price when you buy an update directly from us.

OmniFocus 2. OmniOutliner 4. OmniPresence. Sandboxing. Accessibility. Visio and Microsoft Project compatibility in our iPad apps. Upgrade pricing from Mac App Store apps. I hope you’re looking forward to 2013 as much as we are! (And don’t forget to let us know if you’re planning to come to the OmniFocus 2 debut!)

Comments

Is OmniGraffle for Mac dead?

James Carruthers

12.21.12 11:26 AM

Team Member

@James: Sorry if I gave that impression! If you look at my last blog post, you’ll see that in the last year we’ve released a huge 64-bit update to the Mac edition of OmniGraffle, as well as updating it to support the MacBook Pro’s new Retina display. In the coming year, I think that OmniPresence’s automatic document syncing for teams will help a lot of OmniGraffle workflows.

Ken Case

12.21.12 11:39 AM

Thank you for the update (received it in my email as well). Love the products. I would love to come to the grand unveiling of Omnifocus 2 in SF, but I live on the east coast and travelling out there in January, just after winter break doesn’t work out for me any year. Any way to get in on the early beta for us who cannot travel to SF just for this?

Thanks.

Adam

12.21.12 11:45 AM

Loved the update! Any chance a web-app version of OmniFocus could be on the horizon? It’s almost perfect except some on our team use Windows.

Thanks.

Chris Chowdhury

12.21.12 11:48 AM

I take it that the discounted OF 2.0 upgrades for Mac App Store purchases are purchases of OF 2.0 from the Omni online store, discounted after the OF 1.x version purchased from the MAS indicates that the upgrade price applies? End result is that the user has an Omni online store version of OF 2.0, not a MAS version, right? Does the licensing for the upgrade reflect the MAS license or the Omni license?

Bill

12.21.12 11:52 AM

That’s all great, but what about OmniWeb?

Josh

12.21.12 12:00 PM

Unfortunately won’t be able at the OF debut. But as a beta tester of the first omnifocus, is there a possibility to be included to the private beta? That’d be awesome!

Gabriele

12.21.12 12:03 PM

I read the tweet about this post in Twitter,
added it to Instapaper,
read the first paragraph,
decided this was something I should read when the kids are in bed,
created an OmniFocus task to remind me of reading the rest,
synced it to the OmniSync server,
couldn’t wait,
went to my home office,
woke up my iMac,
synced OF for Mac,
clicked the link,
read the rest,
got very excited,
hit my quick entry shortcut,
and typed “travel: of2 debut”

just to realize

that I’m still in Germany,
can’t afford the trip,
won’t have beta access,

then

consoled myself with the fact that the German language has a word called “Vorfreude” for the state of excitement, joy and pleasure people feel _before_ they get or do something they love.

Now I just need to convince myself that Vorfreude is better than the real thing.

It certainly is.

It certainly is.

Frederik

12.21.12 12:16 PM

Ken

Great news re. Omnifocus 2 but giving precedence to people who visit in person is not very helpful to your foreign users - I am in the UK. Will the event be streamed? Why not give Beta access to those that attend in that way?

Thanks and Season’s Greetings
David

David Foster

12.21.12 12:22 PM

Team Member

@Adam, @Gabriele, @Frederik, and @David: Those who come to the OmniFocus 2 debut in person are guaranteed early access—but I think we also plan to create a place where people can sign up online, much like we did for beta-testing OmniFocus v1. (And @Frederik, thank you for teaching me the word Vorfreude!)

@Chris: I want to finish all the stuff we’ve already committed to before taking on anything else! But we have a lot of Windows customers who are really enjoying the new Mail Drop feature which we’re currently beta testing (see my last blog post).

@Bill: Yes, the end result of purchasing a discounted upgrade to OmniFocus 2 is that you’ll have the direct download version, not the Mac App Store version. Sadly, we still don’t have any mechanism for offering discounts through the Mac App Store.

@Josh: I don’t have any news to share about OmniWeb, except that I’m using (and posting this reply) from a 64-bit update that isn’t quite ready for prime time yet. (Since it’s a back burner project, it’s very hard to predict when it will be ready.)

Ken Case

12.21.12 12:23 PM

Why do you consider iCloud and DropBox “ephemeral cloud solutions”?

Ed Coye

12.21.12 12:27 PM

This is all SO exciting! I wish I could be in San Francisco for the OmniFocus 2 event. Sadly, I’m on the wrong coast. I also *LOVE* the name you chose—OmniPresence—for your cloud service. So clever!

Brett

12.21.12 12:28 PM

Please make OmniWeb a paid app…We’ll support it!

Look

12.21.12 12:29 PM

Thrilled to hear that! Sounds like a post-xmas present to me. Great. Really great.

Thomas

12.21.12 12:34 PM

Signed up for the event, but will only be able to attend if there is a streaming version offered. Can’t wait for OmniFocus 2!

Peter Edstrom

12.21.12 12:42 PM

Team Member

@Ed: I consider all online services hosted by others to be ephemeral, relative to how long well-designed software tools last. In my daily workflow I’m still using a number of the same tools as I was using 25 years ago (such as emacs and vi), but I can’t think of a single online service which I used 20 years ago which I still use regularly today (except for a few private services I host myself at omnigroup.com). We want to be able to keep syncing documents in our apps as long as the apps themselves keep working, and we build our apps to last a long time.

Ken Case

12.21.12 12:44 PM

@Ken:

Yes, it really is a nice word and until I wrote the post I wasn’t even aware of it (it’s probably too commonly used over here). I just googled for a picture, and I think this one is better than any verbal definition: http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/display/28504644

Also, let me take this opportunity to honestly thank you and the whole Omni team for OF, OOP, OGP, OGS and your educational discounts, which made the two capital Ps possible.

Frederik

12.21.12 12:45 PM

Exciting all round!

The only thing that I ask is that you reconsider a temporary Mac App Store sale for those of us who want to upgrade but don’t want to pay full price again. Even a discount that is less than your own upgrade pricing would do. Personally, if there isn’t a discount I’m going to be waiting until after WWDC just on the off chance that Apple finally builds paid upgrades into the App Store. This is really a problem that they need to fix.

Thanks,
Rick

Rick Vugteveen

12.21.12 1:11 PM

Any chance of a limited-time launch sale on OmniFocus 2 in the App Store?

Andrew

12.21.12 1:49 PM

@Rick,

is there a compelling reason why you do not want to use a copy of OF 2.0 bought directly from Omni, if you can get it at a discounted price despite having bought 1.x from the MAS? The Omni software updater works well, you get the option of using pre-release “sneaky peek” builds, new releases aren’t delayed for weeks by Apple’s review process, Omni will keep track of your license for you, and all of your money will be going to the people who develop the tool. On the other pan of the balance, you’ll have to download OmniFocus by hand on a new computer, and the MAS license might be regarded as more generous in some ways. Is there anything else to make it worth holding off until after WWDC? You must not be a charter member of the “We need OF 2 NOW!!!” crowd that seems to be coming out of the woodwork :-)

Bill

12.21.12 2:03 PM

Wish i was able to attend the OF debut. I’ve been a devoted user since I beta tested 1.0—might have even been an alpha test. I’m definitely in for 2.0 and am happy and excited to help beta test when you are ready.

Have a wonderful holiday and a very happy new year. Thank you to the entire Omni Group team for making me more productive in immeasurable ways.

Ira Entis

12.21.12 4:30 PM

In all the hubbub about the new stuff, PLEASE don’t neglect AppleScript. A robust and reasonably bug-free scripting capability is critical to what some of us do!

Rob Lewis

12.21.12 4:44 PM

@Bill,

I must agree that simply not having to worry about licensing and updates really do make me want to have everything from the App Store. Unlike what was suggested in the post, I tend to think of it as an application management system rather than a way to discover new software. I do wish that there could be a way for it to take care of upgrades and educational discounts.

Andrew

12.21.12 7:50 PM

@Andrew,

I own all of the Omni apps as direct purchases from Omni, and a number of other apps bought from the MAS. YMMV, but in my experience, the Omni support for updates works at least as well as the MAS, and I get those updates days to weeks earlier because they don’t have to wait in line at Apple for someone to give their stamp of approval (particularly welcome on those unfortunate occasions when some nasty problem is discovered immediately after the previous revision gets through the review process). I get the option of using experimental builds (immediate access to bug fixes), and the licenses are trivial to transfer if I move to a new machine or otherwise do a full installation. That’s something I do once or twice a year, at most, so having to spend another minute or two isn’t a big hit. The MAS just did 4 updates for me, then promptly went and did them again, so for me, the Omni setup is in a commanding lead for a year or two :-)

My recommendation is that people who haven’t already bought a given Omni app buy it from Omni rather than the MAS, especially if there is any interest in scripting. About the only case I can make for buying from the MAS is if you need to use several copies and would need to buy a family or additional license from Omni; the MAS license would allow a personal user to deploy it on several machines at no extra cost (husband and wife each with personal machine, for example), whereas Omni wants you to pay per seat or per user (necessitating 2 licenses or family pack for the same scenario). I expect that as Apple tightens up the restrictions on apps sold through the MAS, some functionality may be removed from the MAS versions to stay in compliance — it would really suck to lose some feature I use every week just so I could have a slightly easier time with something I do yearly!

Anyhow, just curious. I agree the MAS is clearly a big plus if the option is software that doesn’t have a built-in updater!

Bill

12.21.12 11:16 PM

WIll these upgrades mean I will finally be able to synch my OmniOutliner 3 with my iPad version in a simple manner? Since about tow months after buying these two products I have reduced my usage of them since it is not worth the current effort to synch them. :(

i use OF on my Mac, iPad and iPhone frequency related to the easy way they are synched.

Brian

Brian H Harvey

12.21.12 11:59 PM

Sure wish you’d reconsider a limited sale of OF2 on MAS. I really enjoy the MAS experience. It is like Amazon for software as far as ease of use and simplicity goes.

Stephen

12.22.12 12:38 AM

Hi,
any chance to have team sharing feature on omnifocus 2 ?
best

Geaif

12.22.12 5:14 AM

What an incredible way to bring in the new year! Thank you for your thoughtful approach to the business of updates and upgrades. Like Frederik, your apps are so integral to how I do what I do. Looking forward to these releases so much, you made my holiday!

Scott

12.22.12 5:41 AM

So clarify for us about the status of Omnigraffle. Is it going to updated in 2013 or not. I’m still using 4 and I’m not going to update to 5 if there is a chance that you will upgrade shortly there after. I understand that you’ve done a lot to it, but at the cost of upgrades, I want to get good use before being charged again.

Mark Fuller

12.22.12 8:37 PM

In http://www.davidco.com/seminars/detail.php?id=16884&catID=2 , David Allen describes a 1-hour presentation about OmniFocus and GTD. Will this seminar discuss OmniFocus 2?

I realize that the Omni Group may not have an answer to that question…

Phil Earnhardt

12.22.12 8:39 PM

The way to do it is a discount on Mac App Store for a week when Omnifocus 2 is released. I really want to continue to “have it” on the Mac App Store. Shure Apple doesn’t offer a way for developers to charge upgrades but the workaround is the mentioned. For example 1Password had (have) a sale (50%) when releasing the 4.0 iOS version. The only reason why this cant happen that I can think of is Omnigroups belief to never ever have “sales” as being a proud premium developer (which I really believe the are!). When it comes to pricing strategy I believe you’re doing the right thing. No sales and a slightly higher price point. But this “sale” that I’m suggesting would be a way to make MAS customers who wants to continue with MAS and recently bought Omnifocus 1happy. Wouldn’t you agree?

Lars

12.22.12 9:55 PM

Guys,

Any chance of an Android version of Omnifocus and your other apps?

Thanks!

Filip

Filip

12.22.12 11:08 PM

Great news! Can’t wait to see OF2 in action. Won’t be able to make it to the presso, but would love to be involved and help in beta testing and so on.

Finally two questions:

1. have you considered native integration with the Google API? I work at UWCSEA, a big school, and it would be great to have a GTD tool that we could use with our Google Apps accounts.
2. Any developments regarding the ability to share to dos?

Great work, and a very prosperous 2013 to you all!

Gabriel

Gabriel

12.23.12 4:08 AM

Keep up the amazing work. Omnifocus has changed my life and I am forever grateful to your teams hard work to continue making it better. :-)

Andre

12.23.12 8:17 AM

Omnipresence does sound interesting. Do you plan to support any of the commercial cloud offerings like Amazon S3 or Google Drive or even Dropbox? I already use S3 for stuff so it would be a simple no brainer for me to add it in.

Larry S

12.23.12 6:17 PM

Will there still be a Pro and a Standard version of OmniOutliner?

Matt

12.24.12 7:19 AM

Ken,

It sounds as if Apple is really missing the boat re:allowing pricing for upgrades. For a company that does many things elegantly, dropping the ball on this hurts third-party developers (and, ultimately, Apple’s users). Is providing support for upgrades in Apple’s ecology a passionate priority for your company? Have you considered hooking up with Leo LaPorte and getting on MacBreak Weekly during your visit to the SF area? I’d love to see more public discussion of this problem, and encourage Apple to find a way to support upgrade pricing.

I love your philosophy on cloud computing. I should own my own damn cloud. Have you looked at providing an API so that third-party developers could connect non-Omni products the same way? This would also be a fascinating discussion to have somewhere on TWiT during your visit to the Bay Area.

Phil Earnhardt

12.24.12 1:07 PM

Do you know when Omnifocus 2 will be released? Thank you

Vicenc Fernandez

12.25.12 12:44 PM

It’s absolutely incredible that you are going to charge for upgrades considering the initial price of these apps.

Omnifolks: Do good by your customers and they will stick by your side forever. Pull tricks like this and watch loyalty wither.

Dan

12.26.12 8:18 AM

@Dan,

OmniFocus for Mac first shipped several years ago (early 2008). It’s had a tremendous number of features added over the years, at no additional charge. At what price point does an app become an unending software entitlement for the customer, in your view?

OmniFocus is the only one of the major Omni apps which has yet to have a (paid) major update. OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner, OmniPlan have all had paid major updates, some of them multiple times. Customers do seem to stick around despite this shocking behavior — perhaps it isn’t all that shocking after all.

Bill

12.26.12 3:18 PM

@Dan, can you provide some reference for your reasoning? What companies are you comparing The Omni Group to—what third-party vendors sell apps and guarantee that you will get free updates in perpetuity? How do you think that’s a credible model for a company to remain viable by getting no renumeration for updates to their product ever again? Please explain yourself!

Apple’s lack of upgrade pricing in their app stores has been publicly discussed by a variety of developers for at least a year. It’s a serious issue for developers. If you’re interested in educating yourself on the issue, check out some of independent developer Marco Arment’s commentary on the problems with the Mac App Store. If you google on

the mac app store future of irrelevance

you’ll find a great example.

Phil Earnhardt

12.26.12 4:01 PM

Should I hold of on buying OF for the time being then?
I’m currently running a trial version and was planning to buy it in the coming week, just before my trial period ends.

Love the product so would be very sad to have to wait an undisclosed amount of time before I can buy the “real deal”
Buying v1 now and buying an “upgrade” to v2 somehow seems a waste of money?

Please advise!

Regards,

Janov

Janov

12.28.12 3:54 PM

Am concerned—After a lot of research on moving to a better GTD workflow, I just bought the MAC version of Omnifocus today (through the App store). Now I see that you intend to upgrade in just a month, and apparently charge for it. I can understand charging people if they purchased years ago, but I am hoping this will not be the case for new purchasers like me. Please advise—because if I will have to pay for an upgrade I wish to cancel this purchase.

Thanks—

D’Arcy

DARCY GUE

12.30.12 6:03 PM

I just bought Omnifocus for the Ipad and Iphone today. I came to the your site for reference since I am finding it challenging to use as a first time user. I just learned about Omnifocus 2 while visiting your site. I am finding out you are going to charge for OF2 and that is not feasible to buy it again. Please refund me the purchase.

Anit

12.30.12 7:27 PM

@Dan: To a business, loyalty is not that useful if it doesn’t also bring in income!

Amy Worrall

12.31.12 5:06 AM

@D’Arcy: if you want a refund, the procedure is found here: http://www.omnigroup.com/support/store/refunds

@Anit: The changes to OmniFocus for Mac are to the user interface, making it look and feel more like the iOS versions. No need to change the iOS versions for compatibility with OmniFocus 2. However, if you want a refund, see above.

@Janov: you can buy now, and get use out of OmniFocus immediately. Typical Omni upgrade policy offers 50-60% discount to previous owners, and Ken may announce that all purchasers after some date get a better deal, as he has done with OmniOutliner 4. You’ll be able to join the OmniFocus 2 beta without obligation to upgrade, and by the time it actually is released for sale your price per month may be in the noise. You should have a good idea from the trial whether or not owning OmniFocus is improving your life enough to be worth the cost. Even if you end up having to buy the OmniFocus 2 upgrade, the cost will probably be less than a fancy cup of coffee a week. If it isn’t worth that, an argument could be made that it isn’t worth the cost even if you don’t have to buy the upgrade…

Bill

01.01.13 2:53 PM

what about new releases of OmniPlan ?
I’ve sent in uncount crash reports and it would be cool to get some updates.

ekke gentz

01.02.13 8:19 AM

I’m living so much of my life out of OF I am very excited to see whats improved in version 2. I just hope nothing’s gone backwards. New “look and feel” scares me. I hope it remains as quick to process my Inbox as it is now with all the cool shortcuts you can do.

Clint

01.03.13 9:41 AM

Omnifocus 2 cannot get here fast enough!!! Once again, I’m doing my dance betweenOF and Things and each program drives me nuts in different way. But if OF2 is going to look as nice as the screenshots I’ve seen for the iPad version, I couldn’t be more psyched!

Amanda

01.03.13 1:57 PM

I am a big Omni fan and particularly looking forward to OmniPresence. I completely agree about the unreliability of today’s Cloud alternatives. iCloud, obviously, is a great disappointment.

I am going to encourage my service provider, DreamHost, to offer OmniPresence as an account option. Please post on how best to encourage that.

I would LOVE to see a Mind Mapping app from OmniGroup. Maybe a paid add-on to OmniOutliner?

You’d truly make my life if you were to build something that was a graph navigation / mind map tool based on plain text/markup notes. Simplenote crossed with XMind running on OmniPresence.

John Gordon

01.05.13 9:59 AM

Of the half a dozen Omni apps I use on my Mac, my favorite is the very first one, OmniWeb. I gladly paid for it in the early days. When it became free, I was excited by the prospect of an expanding user community. What I didn’t anticipate was OmniWeb dropping off the development radar.

Please release OmniWeb 6 with 1Password compatibility and charge us $25 to $50 for it.

Ward Clark

01.07.13 9:34 PM

Will OF2 work with OSX 10.6.8? I

Fred

01.10.13 12:50 AM

I hope you use Helevtica as the default typeface in OF2.

Duncan Baines

01.12.13 8:55 AM

Duncan, are you aware that you can customize all the fonts used to display your data in OmniFocus? See the Styles tab in Preferences.

Bill

01.12.13 4:57 PM

Does this mean that it’s a bad time to buy OmniOutliner 3? I have a big writing project coming up this year, but I don’t want to buy 3 and then have to buy again for version 4 within a few weeks? Can you give a more specific date? (Or a deal for new buyers of 3).

Thanks,

Eric

Eric James

01.13.13 3:13 PM

Eric,

Omni has promised that all purchasers of OmniOutliner 3 at this point will get a free upgrade to OmniOutliner 4.

Bill

01.13.13 6:59 PM

Many thanks Bill - that’s very good news ...

Eric

Eric James

01.14.13 2:45 AM

Yes, I changed the fonts in OF1 the day I bought it, but I’m sure you can make the weights match better than me.

Duncan Baines

01.15.13 2:30 PM

I was considering buying omnigraffle for iPad tonight. Now I’m not sure if I should wait.

Will OmniPressence be added to omnigraffle 5 for Mac and omnigraffle for iPad (current version) or will it be a paid upgrade? I don’t really want to buy it now if a new paid version is coming in the next few months that has the feature I really need/want.

I have two iPads (one for home and one for office) and I have omnigraffle on my laptop. Would love to have them all able to work on the same documents easily. :)

Beau Simensen

01.15.13 10:18 PM

Hi,

I purchased OmniFocus 1 (OF1) for Mac through App Store four months back in time. When you say OmniFocus 2 for Mac will be a new purchase, I´m disappointed (if you will not offer a big discount to previous owners).

Other apps in App Store that launch a new and more modern interface, is mostly for free. I also have your iOS versions and they have a modern look and feel. Only reason for me to buy the Mac version of OF1 was because of the syncing with my iPhone and iPad. Otherwise I don´t use the Mac version (because of the bad user interface). I can understand why you now coming with a new version (OF2).

Please, at least work out a reasonable discount for your customers who purchased your products through App Store!!!!

Otherwise myself and probably many more, will look for alternatives…

Kind regards
Torbjorn

Torbjorn Fjeldgard

01.17.13 12:25 PM

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