From michelle at omnigroup.com Thu Jan 4 09:03:10 2007 From: michelle at omnigroup.com (Michelle Hill) Date: Thu Jan 4 09:05:47 2007 Subject: Macworld OmniFocus meeting Message-ID: <44FF43EE-FB36-45F9-952C-3391CF030BEB@omnigroup.com> > We've gotten a huge response and we are very grateful to all the > people who want to meet with us to talk about OmniFocus at > Macworld. It will be a busy week for all and it was difficult to > accommodate everyone's schedules. > > The meeting will take place from 4:30-5:30 on Monday at the Apple > Store. It is located on the corner of Ellis Street and Stockton > Street, just a few blocks from the Moscone Center. > > We are pleased to say that Merlin Mann, author of the website > 43folders.com, will be joining us. > > I know this will break some hearts, but I want to warn you ahead of > time that we won't be doing a demo of the application. We will be > telling you a little bit more about our plans, but the application > itself is not ready to be shown publicly. > > Hope to see you there! > > Michelle From michelle at omnigroup.com Tue Jan 16 15:02:24 2007 From: michelle at omnigroup.com (Michelle Hill) Date: Tue Jan 16 15:09:49 2007 Subject: Thank you! Message-ID: <9754E535-78F6-4BBF-8D88-2F3C733A35B6@omnigroup.com> Thank you to all of you who came to our talk at the Apple store in San Francisco last week and also to those of you who stopped by our booth at Macworld. We got a lot of great feedback about OmniFocus. We're very excited about it and promise you we are working hard on it! We've added a new webpage to our site for OmniFocus: We'll continue to add more information and keep you updated on our progress. Feature requests and suggestions can still be sent to omnifocus@omnigroup.com. Thanks for your interest and support! Michelle From bbronstein at mac.com Wed Jan 17 13:24:37 2007 From: bbronstein at mac.com (Ben Bronstein) Date: Wed Jan 17 13:24:41 2007 Subject: OmniFocus-beta-announce Digest, Vol 4, Issue 2 In-Reply-To: <20070117200018.21E0D126FDE@dynamic-www.omnigroup.com> References: <20070117200018.21E0D126FDE@dynamic-www.omnigroup.com> Message-ID: <345DE3B7-78F4-4966-B55B-BCE89F89503F@mac.com> hi, could I be taken off of the mailing list please? thanks. On Jan 17, 2007, at 3:00 PM, omnifocus-beta-announce- request@omnigroup.com wrote: > Send OmniFocus-beta-announce mailing list submissions to > omnifocus-beta-announce@omnigroup.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/omnifocus-beta-announce > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > omnifocus-beta-announce-request@omnigroup.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > omnifocus-beta-announce-owner@omnigroup.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of OmniFocus-beta-announce digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Thank you! (Michelle Hill) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:02:24 -0800 > From: Michelle Hill > Subject: Thank you! > To: omnifocus-beta-announce@omnigroup.com > Message-ID: <9754E535-78F6-4BBF-8D88-2F3C733A35B6@omnigroup.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > Thank you to all of you who came to our talk at the Apple store in > San Francisco last week and also to those of you who stopped by our > booth at Macworld. We got a lot of great feedback about OmniFocus. > We're very excited about it and promise you we are working hard on it! > > We've added a new webpage to our site for OmniFocus: > > > > We'll continue to add more information and keep you updated on our > progress. Feature requests and suggestions can still be sent to > omnifocus@omnigroup.com. > > Thanks for your interest and support! > > Michelle > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > OmniFocus-beta-announce mailing list > OmniFocus-beta-announce@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/omnifocus-beta-announce > > > End of OmniFocus-beta-announce Digest, Vol 4, Issue 2 > ***************************************************** From kc at omnigroup.com Fri Apr 20 12:08:09 2007 From: kc at omnigroup.com (Ken Case) Date: Fri Apr 20 12:10:08 2007 Subject: OmniFocus screenshot and feature overview Message-ID: <040AF0B8-6313-491A-B7EC-7D5FC9AAF29C@omnigroup.com> Hello, all! (Would you believe that there are over 2,500 people subscribed to this OmniFocus beta mailing list?) We're not quite ready to post a beta release for you to download--but I did want to let you all know that we just posted an OmniFocus screenshot and feature overview on our blog: http://blog.omnigroup.com/2007/04/20/omnifocus-screenshot-and-feature-overview/ We look forward to your comments! Cheers, Ken From kc at omnigroup.com Fri Apr 20 13:45:02 2007 From: kc at omnigroup.com (Ken Case) Date: Fri Apr 20 13:46:29 2007 Subject: OmniFocus screenshot and feature overview In-Reply-To: <040AF0B8-6313-491A-B7EC-7D5FC9AAF29C@omnigroup.com> References: <040AF0B8-6313-491A-B7EC-7D5FC9AAF29C@omnigroup.com> Message-ID: As one of you pointed out: > Nothing says 'crash my server' like publishing screenshots of a new > omni app. ;) Our blog server started crashing within two seconds of plugging it into the network until we finally got it tuned right. Which (*knock on wood*) I think we've finally done. (Either that, or you've all given up for the day.) So I'm probably inviting disaster by doing this, but I thought I'd let you all know that our blog is finally back up. Cheers, Ken From kc at omnigroup.com Mon Apr 30 19:15:56 2007 From: kc at omnigroup.com (Ken Case) Date: Mon Apr 30 19:18:23 2007 Subject: Ethan Schoonover's OmniFocus overview video Message-ID: Hello again, all! (And a big welcome to the 500 of you who've subscribed in the last week!) Now that our servers have recovered from posting those OmniFocus screenshots, we've decided to try something even more ambitious: we've posted an OmniFocus overview movie recorded by our good friend and brave pioneer user Ethan Schoonover, the author of Kinkless GTD(*): http://blog.omnigroup.com/2007/04/30/ethan-schoonovers-omnifocus- overview-video/ Ethan's target audience is, well, all of you! His video introduces some of the unique features of OmniFocus, so that when we post our first downloadable builds you'll hopefully already have some notion of how you can put it to good use. Please feel free to post any questions or feedback to our blog or forums (**)--or just send them directly to us at omnifocus@omnigroup.com--and we hope you enjoy this more detailed look at OmniFocus! Thanks, Ken (*) I'm guessing most of you already know this, but just in case anyone doesn't: GTD and Getting Things Done are registered trademarks of David Allen & Co. If you'd like to learn more about David Allen's GTD system, you'll find more information at . (**) Our OmniFocus forum is at . From kc at omnigroup.com Tue May 1 07:54:00 2007 From: kc at omnigroup.com (Ken Case) Date: Tue May 1 07:55:15 2007 Subject: Ethan Schoonover's OmniFocus overview video In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8E97B485-FEE2-40F4-9A45-5681DCBCD380@omnigroup.com> Hello again! (And welcome to the hundred-plus subscribers that have joined this list in the last 12 hours.) If yesterday's link worked for you, you don't need to read the rest of this message. (Sorry for the additional interruption!) It appears that some email clients had trouble reading the link I posted yesterday, because it got split across two lines during transport. (It's easy to forget how fragile email can be!) As a result, a bunch of you got sent to a page which had some navigation bars but content that simply said: Sorry, no posts matched your criteria. If that describes your experience, please try this shorter link instead: I'll try to remember to post shorter links in future messages. Cheers, Ken On Apr 30, 2007, at 7:15 PM, Ken Case wrote: > Hello again, all! (And a big welcome to the 500 of you who've > subscribed in the last week!) > > Now that our servers have recovered from posting those OmniFocus > screenshots, we've decided to try something even more ambitious: > we've posted an OmniFocus overview movie recorded by our good friend > and brave pioneer user Ethan Schoonover, the author of Kinkless > GTD(*): > > > > > Ethan's target audience is, well, all of you! His video introduces > some of the unique features of OmniFocus, so that when we post our > first downloadable builds you'll hopefully already have some notion > of how you can put it to good use. > > Please feel free to post any questions or feedback to our blog or > forums (**)--or just send them directly to us at >--and we hope you enjoy this more detailed look at OmniFocus! > > Thanks, > Ken > > (*) I'm guessing most of you already know this, but just in case > anyone doesn't: GTD and Getting Things Done are registered > trademarks of David Allen & Co. If you'd like to learn more about > David Allen's GTD system, you'll find more information at >. > > (**) Our OmniFocus forum is at >. > From kc at omnigroup.com Fri Jun 1 21:01:29 2007 From: kc at omnigroup.com (Ken Case) Date: Fri Jun 1 21:03:39 2007 Subject: What's new in the land of OmniFocus? Message-ID: <312DD264-EB53-4300-A11C-A1326055BD38@omnigroup.com> Hi, all! Has it really been a month since I posted to the list? In some ways it seems a lot shorter--but in many ways it seems like much, much longer. So, what have we been up to over the past month? (Other than seeing this list grow to over 7,500 subscribers?) Quite a bit, it turns out (despite the relative quiet on this list!). So much that I'm going to have to resort to using footnotes in this message... About two weeks ago, we started sending invitations out to early subscribers of this list to try out our latest (unstable) internal builds of OmniFocus [1]. We started out by sending out one hundred invitations, then followed that up with five hundred the next day, then a thousand--and then we started getting a little overwhelmed [2] with the wonderful feedback we were getting from our early testers, so we started moderating our pace a bit. We've now sent out invitations to everyone who subscribed to this list before March 28, and if you want to check on the latest status I've posted a status thread to our forums [4]. Meanwhile, Ethan relaunched his Kinkless web site, publishing a second screencast about OmniFocus [3] as well as some very practical advice on cleaning up your desktop [5]. To those of you who subscribed early enough to receive sneaky peek invitations, we've pushed out about 125 sneaky peek builds in the last two weeks, with updates around the clock (even through the holiday weekend). Hopefully you've noticed some dramatic improvements in that time! Next week will be very busy as well, as we try to squeeze in as much development as we can before heading down to San Francisco to attend Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference. Speaking of which, we're thinking about having some sort of OmniFocus get-together while we're all there (Ethan and Merlin will be there too), though we're still trying to work out the exact timing and venue. The most likely time at this point seems to be Wednesday evening, but we'll let you know when we have more details. (If you're interested in attending, we'd love to hear from you: please RSVP to omnifocus-wwdc@omnigroup.com.) Thanks to all of you for your time and interest, and especially our early testers for putting up with pre-beta software and sending us some great feedback! Keep those cards and letters coming, it really helps us understand what's working well and what still needs work. Cheers, Ken -- [1] OmniFocus pre-release: early birds get the bugs [2] OmniFocus: The Feedback Cometh [3] Ethan Schoonover?s second OmniFocus screencast [4] Status of sneaky peek invitations [5] Five Steps to a Kinkless Desktop From omnifocus-wwdc at omnigroup.com Wed Jun 13 14:16:05 2007 From: omnifocus-wwdc at omnigroup.com (Ken Case) Date: Wed Jun 13 14:17:01 2007 Subject: OmniFocus WWDC gathering this evening in San Francisco In-Reply-To: <312DD264-EB53-4300-A11C-A1326055BD38@omnigroup.com> References: <312DD264-EB53-4300-A11C-A1326055BD38@omnigroup.com> Message-ID: <1C51D7E9-3BFF-4ED9-8793-093EFF615701@omnigroup.com> On Jun 1, 2007, at 9:01 PM, I wrote: > Speaking of which, we're thinking about having some sort of > OmniFocus get-together while we're all there (Ethan and Merlin will > be there too), though we're still trying to work out the exact > timing and venue. We'd like to invite anyone attending Apple's WWDC to join Ethan Schoonover, Merlin Mann, and the OmniFocus development team for an informal gathering on Wednesday evening. We'll be meeting from 6:15pm-7:15pm in the 2nd floor - Olympic room at the Westin Hotel, one block from Moscone. (If you saw an earlier invitation in response to an RSVP or in the OmniFocus message of the day, please note the 6/12 change in venue! This room is larger than the previous two rooms.) I hope to see some of you there! Ken P.S. -- While we're particularly inviting those attending WWDC (because we'll be back in San Francisco at the Apple Store next Thursday), a WWDC badge is not required to attend. From omnifocus-wwdc at omnigroup.com Wed Jun 13 16:19:41 2007 From: omnifocus-wwdc at omnigroup.com (Ken Case) Date: Wed Jun 13 16:20:43 2007 Subject: OmniFocus WWDC gathering this evening in San Francisco In-Reply-To: <1C51D7E9-3BFF-4ED9-8793-093EFF615701@omnigroup.com> References: <312DD264-EB53-4300-A11C-A1326055BD38@omnigroup.com> <1C51D7E9-3BFF-4ED9-8793-093EFF615701@omnigroup.com> Message-ID: <16EDE478-DE55-4C1F-8057-ACA37DF02C9E@omnigroup.com> On Jun 13, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Ken Case wrote: > We'd like to invite anyone attending Apple's WWDC to join Ethan > Schoonover, Merlin Mann, and the OmniFocus development team for an > informal gathering on Wednesday evening. We'll be meeting from > 6:15pm-7:15pm in the 2nd floor - Olympic room at the Westin Hotel, > one block from Moscone. Sorry for the extra interruption: apparently there are two Westin hotels nearby; the one we're meeting in is (and used to be called the Argent). More details on our presentation at the Apple Store _next_ week can be found on our blog: Thanks! Ken From kc at omnigroup.com Fri Nov 16 13:00:54 2007 From: kc at omnigroup.com (Ken Case) Date: Fri Nov 16 13:01:41 2007 Subject: OmniFocus 1.0 will ship on January 8 Message-ID: <7F61E7B3-21EF-4BAE-86C5-E5D51052E87F@omnigroup.com> Hi, all! You wouldn't know it from the silence on this mailing list, but it's been a very, very busy six months for OmniFocus: we've sent out "sneaky peek" invitations to 16,193 people, read 20,232 email messages sent directly to our support ninjas (at omnifocus@omnigroup.com) and another 8,326 messages posted to the OmniFocus forums (at ), and we've published over 500 "sneaky peek" releases of the software. We could probably go on indefinitely in this state: you continue to give us lots of great ideas for ways in which we could improve the software further, and it's hard to resist implementing a good idea when we hear it. But it's time to draw the OmniFocus 1.0 development cycle to a close and give you all a stable version that you can use without having to download a new update each week. So, I'm pleased to (finally!) announce that we will be shipping OmniFocus 1.0 on January 8, 2008. OmniPlan 1.0 licenses will sell for $79.95 when it ships--but you can pre-order licenses starting today for just $39.95 (saving $40), and can save even more if you already own a copy of OmniOutliner Pro or purchase more than one license. -- In related news, a number of you have been asking when we might publish an updated video overview (since after 500 releases the last one was starting to feel just a wee bit out of date!). Ethan has been understandably busy, since he's been moving himself and his family from Hong Kong to Seattle to join Omni as our head of marketing (welcome, Ethan!)--but now that he's finally here and getting settled in, he's recorded an updated video which we're posting to our updated OmniFocus web site. You'll find it at www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus. Enjoy! Ken From kc at omnigroup.com Fri Nov 16 13:14:29 2007 From: kc at omnigroup.com (Ken Case) Date: Fri Nov 16 13:22:30 2007 Subject: OmniFocus 1.0 will ship on January 8 In-Reply-To: <7F61E7B3-21EF-4BAE-86C5-E5D51052E87F@omnigroup.com> References: <7F61E7B3-21EF-4BAE-86C5-E5D51052E87F@omnigroup.com> Message-ID: <55A0BD75-C997-4F1C-9EDA-BD0F262FB32D@omnigroup.com> On Nov 16, 2007, at 1:00 PM, Ken Case wrote: > So, I'm pleased to (finally!) announce that we will be shipping > OmniFocus 1.0 on January 8, 2008. OmniPlan 1.0 licenses will sell > for $79.95 when it ships--but you can pre-order licenses starting > today for just $39.95 (saving $40), and can save even more if you > already own a copy of OmniOutliner Pro or purchase more than one > license. And by "OmniPlan 1.0 licenses," I mean "OmniFocus 1.0 licenses." (No sleep deprivation here!) Sorry for any confusion! Ken From kc at omnigroup.com Wed Nov 21 11:39:01 2007 From: kc at omnigroup.com (Ken Case) Date: Wed Nov 21 11:40:21 2007 Subject: Whoa, $100,000 in under five days! Message-ID: I just wanted to write a quick note to thank you all for your support! In less than five days, we've already received over $100,000 in preorders for OmniFocus, making this one of our strongest product launches of all time. We're still hard at work (as you can see if you've been following along with the multiple beta updates we're pushing out each day)--but it's inspiring to see that the time and resources our team has invested into this over the last 16 months has earned your vote of confidence. Thank you! Ken