OmniFocus for iPhone 1.15.1 is a minor update which includes updated localizations, and fixes a handful of bugs.

OmniFocus for iPhone requires iOS 5.1 or later.

Localization

• Corrected a localization regression which caused the English names of the built-in perspectives to be displayed incorrectly.
• Updated German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, and Chinese localizations.

Miscellaneous

• OmniFocus no longer captures completed reminders when Reminders Capture is enabled.
• Corrected a layout problem on the Title & Note edit screen when running on iPhone 5.
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur when switching between days in Forecast mode with the event timeline enabled.

OmniFocus for iPhone 1.15 includes support for iPhone 5 and iOS 6, adds TextExpander touch support, a Russian localization, and various other improvements and bug fixes.

OmniFocus for iPhone requires iOS 5.1 or later.

TextExpander touch Support

• OmniFocus now includes support for TextExpander touch. TextExpander snippets will be expanded in most text fields, in notes, and in search.
• More info at Smile Software’s website.

Maps & Location

• Location Reminders in OmniFocus exclusively uses geofencing whenever possible. (In the uncommon case where you’ve exceeded the device’s maximum number of monitored regions, OmniFocus will fall back to using significant location changes as a supplemental mechanism.)
• Fixed a bug where requesting directions to a context’s location in Maps mode didn’t correctly open the directions in the Maps app on iOS 6.
• This release restores business search.

Privacy on iOS 6

• OmniFocus requires permission to access your Reminders to use the Reminders Capture feature.
• OmniFocus requires permission to access your Calendar to use the Calendar Events feature of Forecast mode.
• OmniFocus requires permission to access your Contacts in order to assign a contact address as a Context’s location.

Localization

• OmniFocus for iPhone now includes a Russian localization.

Miscellaneous

• On iOS 6 OmniFocus uses a more robust and flexible method for capturing Reminders.
• Reminders captured on iOS 5.1 no longer have “Event reminder” as their default note.
• Improved the appearance of completed action titles in the Action inspector.
• Improved match highlighting in the Context and Project picker on iOS 6.
• The Calendar Alarms setup screen now includes instructions for enabling SSL on your calendar subscription. (iOS does not include a mechanism for OmniFocus to enable this automatically.)
• In Forecast mode the due time is shown for items not in Past or Future.
• Fixed a drawing glitch triggered by completing the last item in Forecast mode on iOS 6.
• Fixed an edge case where sync which removed a due date may have left the due notification scheduled.
• Fixed a bug where the Search screen was sometimes incorrectly laid out after interacting with the on screen keyboard.
• Omni Sync Server usernames are always lowercase. Sync Setup enforces this now to eliminate the possibility of entering an unusable value.
• The selection style of Forecast’s past section draws overdue only when you have overdue actions in the past.

OmniFocus 1.14.2 for iPhone is a minor update. It removes direct support for syncing through MobileMe, and fixes a handful of reported issues.

iCloud Capture

• Fixed a cause of spurious iCloud Capture failure alerts.

Sync

• Removed MobileMe as a directly supported Sync method. If you are currently syncing via MobileMe, your settings will now appear under the Advanced (WebDAV) sync method.

• MobileMe/iDisk will be unavailable after June 30, 2012. Please switch to the free Omni Sync Server or another WebDAV service.

Workflow

• The Inbox can now be filtered. By default, remaining items are visible in the Inbox. Tap the View Options button to filter by Next Action, Available, Remaining, or All.

• The “Clean Up completed Inbox items” setting is now off by default.

• Inbox items now display their assigned Context.

• Fixed a bug where assigning a blocked context to an Inbox item in an Action Group didn’t immediately update its status.

Miscellaneous

• Various localization updates.

OmniFocus 1.14.1 for iPhone is a minor update which fixes several reported issues.

iCloud Capture

• Fixed a bug which caused OmniFocus to skip reminders with location data when capturing iCloud Reminders.

Built-in Web Browser

• Added Retina versions of the back & forward buttons.

Miscellaneous

• Fixed a regression which caused OmniFocus to monitor for significant locations changes in situations where no locations required monitoring.

• Fixed a bug which resulted in a spurious password prompt if a sync was initiated while the device was at the lock screen.

• Fixed a regression which caused a crash at launch on iOS 4.0 devices without multitasking support.

• Fixed a crash when reverse geocoding locations on iOS 4.x.

• The help screen title is now localized.

• Updated the Mac application icon in Sync Settings.

OmniFocus 1.14 for iPhone adds flexible weekly repeats and fixes a handful of reported issues.

Repeating Actions

Added flexible weekly repeats. When a project or action repeats every week, you can specify the days of the week the item should repeat on.

For example:

Repeat every week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday

will create actions due on:

• Monday, February 13, 2012
• Wednesday, February 15, 2012
• Friday, February 17, 2012
• Monday, February 20, 2012
• Wednesday, February 22, 2012
• Friday, February 25, 2012
• …

Important:

Please update to OmniFocus 1.10 for Mac and OmniFocus 1.5 for iPad after updating to OmniFocus 1.14 for iPhone.

Older releases of OmniFocus do not understand this new repeat data. If you edit or complete one of these items using a previous release of OmniFocus, you will lose the weekday repeat specification.

Forecast

Removed the incorrect section header which appeared in the Future section when no items were due.

Fixed a bug where tapping View on a Due Alert while on the Settings screen could leave you stuck in Settings until force-quitting the app.

iCloud Reminders

Fixed a crash encountered when syncing with iCloud Reminders.

OmniFocus 1.13.3 for iPhone is a maintenance release which makes iCloud Capture more robust. It also addresses a problem that could, in rare situations, cause attachments to become inaccessible and custom perspective icons to be ignored until the OmniFocus database was rebuilt.

OmniFocus 1.13.2 for iPhone is a maintenance release which updates localizations and help, and includes a new application icon. In order to use Location Reminders, you need to have iOS 5 installed, and have an iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S.

OmniFocus 1.13.1 for iPhone is a maintenance release that improves the reliability of capturing Reminders created with Siri, and adds the option to sort items either by Due Date & Flagged or by Project order in Context lists. OmniFocus requires iOS 4.0 or later. In order to use Location Reminders, you need to have iOS 5 installed, and have an iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S.

Capturing iCloud Reminders

• Fixed a bug which could cause capture of iCloud Reminders to stop working in certain situations where communication with iCloud took longer than expected.

Workflow

• Items can be sorted either by Due Date & Flagged or by Project order in Context lists.

Forecast

• Fixed a bug which could result in blank items being displayed in Forecast mode.
• Fixed a bug which could result in incorrect Future badge counts.

Miscellaneous

• Fixed a regression blocking the Context and Project pickers from working in landscape orientation.
• Fixed a bug which caused keyboard input to stop working after using the Move item screen on iOS 4.

OmniFocus 1.13 for iPhone adds the ability to capture reminders created with Siri, improves Location Reminders support, and fixes a handful of bugs.

OmniFocus requires iOS 4.0 or later. In order to use Location Reminders, you need to have iOS 5 installed, and have an iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S.

Capturing iCloud Reminders

• OmniFocus and Siri now work together!
• Create reminders on the go with Siri. When you open OmniFocus, it will move these reminders into your OmniFocus Inbox. Please see iCloud Capture in OmniFocus Help for additional information.

Location Reminders & Map

• Fixed a bug where OmniFocus would sometimes monitor a context’s location even if Location Reminders were not enabled for that context.

Miscellaneous

• Fixed a regression which caused Shake to Undo to be unavailable.
• Fixed a bug where the list of actions in Forecast mode was not resorted after an action’s due date was changed.
• In Forecast mode, inbox items are now sorted above actions which share the same due date.
• Actions are now sorted by project in Context lists.
• OmniFocus populates the password field of the login prompt when possible.

OmniFocus 1.12 for iPhone adds Location Reminders, support for iOS 5, and other improvements and bug fixes.

OmniFocus requires iOS 4.0 or later. In order to use Location Reminders, you need to have iOS 5 installed, and have an iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S.

Location Reminders

• Location reminders can be handy for getting a little nudge when you are in the right area to complete an action. In order to use them, you need to have iOS 5 installed, and have an iPhone 4 or later.
• You can use the context editor to assign locations and reminders to your contexts.
• Please see Setting up Location Reminders in OmniFocus Help for additional information.

Map

• Map mode always shows available actions and contexts with available actions.
• Several improvements were made to the behavior of the Map when Location Services is disabled. (Map mode requires Location Services to be enabled for full functionality.)
• Tapping the Center Map button always refreshes the current location before centering the map.
• Fixed a bug where which resulted in stale business names and distances in Map list view after updating the current location.

Forecast

• On iOS 5, calendars with identical names from different accounts can be independently hidden from the Forecast event timeline.
• On iOS 5, calendars in Forecast View Options are grouped by account.
• When returning to the main Forecast screen from an item editor or event inspector, your scroll position in the list is no longer lost.

Editors

• Improved interaction with the onscreen keyboard when using various international keyboard layouts on iOS 5.
• Improved feedback when tapping on the location type buttons in the Context Location inspector.
• The Current Location button in the Context Location inspector is disabled when Location Services is disabled.
• When tapping the Current Location button in the Context Location inspector, the user is alerted when the location cannot be determined.
• The Context Location inspector better handles geocoding failures when setting up a context’s location using a contact.

Workflow

• The Remaining view filter in Context mode now displays remaining actions in remaining projects.

Sync

• The Bonjour login panel now identifies the Mac we are syncing with by name.
• Automatic syncs are no longer inappropriately started when OmniFocus is waiting for the user to enter their sync username and password.
• Fixed a bug where the Subscribe in iCal button was not enabled for Omni Sync Server users whose accounts reside on one of the alternate sync servers

Misc

• In the context list, context badges indicate whether there is a location and location reminder associated with the context.
• When audio attachment recording or playback finishes, background audio is now resumed.
• Distances are now displayed in miles when the Region Format is set to United Kingdom.

OmniFocus for iPhone v1.11 updates Forecast mode: Never spread yourself too thin. Enable Calendar integration to see your hard landscape events alongside your overdue and due soon OmniFocus actions. Use the View options menu to show your items with a start date. Reschedule your projects and actions—with just a tap or two—to keep your days balanced.

Forecast

• Forecast mode now integrates Calendar Events. To modify what you see in the list or to adjust the time shown for the Calendar Events use the View button in the toolbar. (This feature requires iOS 4.0 or later).
• Forecast mode now includes an additional section for viewing items starting on the days of the upcoming week. Use the View options menu to hide or show this section.
• Fixed a bug where in certain situations the Home button returned you to a blank screen if OmniFocus was launched into Forecast mode via a Due Alert.

User Interface

• Items on the home screen can now be reordered using the reorder button, located next to the Home button.
• Frequently used perspectives can be added directly to the home screen. To add a perspective to the home screen, tap the Perspectives row. Then, tap Edit. Then tap the star to the right of the perspective you'd like to add.
• The built-in perspective icons have been updated.

Sync

• When syncing with the Omni Sync Server or MobileMe, the sync login alert no longer prompts you for your username.
• When syncing to OmniFocus for Mac via Wi-Fi, the Mac's name now appears in the login alert.

OmniFocus 1.8.2 is a maintenance release which improves performance when scheduling local notifications for Due Reminders and includes fixes for synchronization with WebDAV servers using self-signed certificates.

Performance

• Resolved a problem in which marking actions or projects complete was sluggish if local notifications were enabled.
• Resolved a problem which could lead to increased startup and sync times if local notifications were enabled.

Syncing

• Fixed a bug that caused a sync error to be incorrectly reported during the first sync after launch when syncing with a WebDAV server using a self-signed certificate.
• Fixed a bug where the initial sync with a WebDAV server using a self-signed certificate incorrectly displayed a sync error alert above the certificate trust prompt.
• Fixed a bug where syncing with a WebDAV server using a self-signed certificate would cause OmniFocus to crash on iOS 4.0.
• Fixed a bug in Sync Setup where the Save button was not functional when either Nothing or Bonjour was selected.
• Fixed a crash in Bonjour syncing when entering the background while the Mac is unavailable.

User Interface

• Fixed a bug when running on iOS 4 or later where suspending the application could result in actions not being marked due soon or overdue at the appropriate time.

OmniFocus 1.8.1 is a maintenance release which includes fixes for synchronization and folder contents summaries.

Sync

• Fixed a bug which could cause an automatic sync to fail when OmniFocus was put into the background.
• Fixed a bug where a sync error alert appears on top of an incompatible database alert, preventing you from selecting which database to keep.
• Fixed a bug where an error during initial synchronization wasn’t correctly reported.

Badges

• Corrected the counts in the folder contents summary; project status and type are now applied when calculating the counts for available, overdue, and due soon actions.

OmniFocus 1.8 enhances support for multitasking features introduced in iOS 4, including support for background sync completion. It overhauls due reminder notifications for increased reliability, makes numerous interface, performance, and stability fixes for use with iOS 4.2, and improves the overall utility for finding nearby actions in addition to making more efficient use of location services.

Multitasking

• When running on iOS 4.2 or later, OmniFocus will complete an in-progress sync session when it is put into the background.
• When running on iOS 4.2 or later, if an automatic sync is due soon, OmniFocus will start a sync session as it enters the background.
• Due Reminders and Calendar Notifications
• Due Reminders are now presented when OmniFocus is active. Previously, these alerts were only presented when OmniFocus was not the active application.
• OmniFocus now uses a custom sound for Due Reminders to distinguish these alerts from other alerts on your device. (The sound remains optional.)
• Various improvements were made to the reliability of scheduling due reminder alerts for users with iOS 4.0 and later.
• Changes made to Due Reminders in the settings are now immediately applied to scheduled alerts.
• Actions are now exported to the calendar using their inherited due date when appropriate. (In particular, actions with no due date now appear on the calendar if their project has a due date.)

Maps

• Fixed a bug where location services updates weren't always disabled outside of Nearby Contexts mode.
• Geolocation and business results are now displayed in your preferred language when possible.
• Switched to the latest Google Geocoding API for finding the exact geolocation when associating contexts with an address or the address of a contact from Contacts.
• When requesting the nearest result for a business search, the results are limited to one match to improve performance for showing nearby contexts.
• Contexts with available actions are always eligible to appear on the map. The “nearby” distance filter is no longer applied.
• When running on iOS 4.0 or later, OmniFocus now uses the compass arrow icon for switching to Nearby Contexts mode.
• OmniFocus now correctly handles the cases where location services have been disabled globally, or specifically for OmniFocus, while it is suspended in the background.
• Subcontexts that inherit a location from a parent context are no longer displayed directly on the map. Actions associated with the subcontext can be viewed through the parent context.
• Improved help text for assigning dropped pins as the location for a context.
• Fixed a bug when running under iOS 4.2 where switching to Maps view would inappropriately enter Edit mode immediately.
• The map/list view switcher is no longer incorrectly disabled after returning to the map after assigning a dropped pin to a context.
• Tapping the nearby toolbar icon will now recenter map on the current location even if there are no nearby actions currently on the map.
• Improved filtering of invalid device location results from the location services.
• Swipe to delete was incorrectly available for status messages such as "Finding Location" within the list-mode of the nearby action feature. Attempting to delete the status message crashed the application.

Editing

• When assigning an action’s context or project, available choices are now sorted using localized, case-insensitive rules.
• Fixed a bug which prevented the flag on an action or project from being set when running on iOS 4.2.

User Interface

• Fixed a bug where using quick entry while the progress bar was active could result in the keyboard subsequently not appearing when it should.
• OmniFocus for iPhone now honors the synced preference to hide parent of an action when showing actions in action lists. This setting is available in the View menu for OmniFocus for the Mac.
• The configuration options for due reminders and calendar integration have been moved to a subsection of Settings called Notifications.
• Fixed several editing and settings screens where the main toolbar was missing the standard set of buttons.
• Fixed a bug that could result in an incorrect “due soon” means value in Settings after replacing device database with the server's copy.
• Fixed a text layout bug on the Welcome to OmniFocus screen when running on a device with a Retina display.

Sync

• OmniFocus handles HTTP redirects more intelligently when replacing your local/remote database with a copy of your remote/local database, and when publishing .ics files.
• OmniFocus better handles sync setting URLs when resuming from the background.
• Fixed regression which prevented completion of the initial sync if there was no sync database present on the server.
• Fixed a workaround for some quirks in cPanel servers.
• Fixed some problems with syncing to servers with expired, self-signed, or otherwise exceptionable certificates.

Stability

• Fixed a crash which would occur in certain situations when editing a task which became due while you were editing it.
• Fixed a regression that caused OmniFocus to crash when changing hidden preferences. This is occasionally used by support ninjas to troubleshoot problems or configure options which aren’t otherwise available in the Settings user interface.
• Fixed crashes when attempting to send email from within OmniFocus on a device where no email accounts have been configured in Mail.
• Fixed a crash on initial MobileMe sync when you using a custom path.
• Fixed compatibility problem on iOS 4.2 where tapping in the status bar caused OmniFocus to crash.

OmniFocus 1.7.3 is a minor update to OmniFocus which fixes a compatibility issue with iOS 4.1 and a few other bugs.

• Fixed a compatibility issue with iOS 4.1 where assigning a context or project would erase an action's title.
• Fixed a bug which could cause the app to stop updating the status of some items until you quit and relaunched.
• Fixed a regression in 1.7.2 where the setting for "Due Soon Means" was missing unless syncing was enabled.

OmniFocus 1.7.2 fixes a crash on iOS 3.0/3.1 encountered in 1.7.1 when showing the keyboard for the context and project pickers.

OmniFocus 1.7.1 is a minor update to OmniFocus which improves the handling of due items and fixes bugs.

Due Items

• When multiple tasks are due at the same time, OmniFocus displays a single alert representing all of them rather than displaying a sequence of alerts.
• Due reminders can now be disabled altogether in Settings.
• Due alerts now play audio and vibrate by default. (If you prefer silent alerts, you can turn this off in Settings.)
• Due projects are now included in the Overdue and Due Soon lists, just like they are in OmniFocus for iPad and OmniFocus 1.8 for Mac.

Quick Entry

• Fixed a bug with the "Send to OmniFocus" bookmarklet on iOS 4 where the name of the new task would get cleared.
• Using Quick Entry while incorporating synced changes will no longer lose track of those new items when the sync happens to compact the database.
• Fixed a rare crash encountered in Quick Entry when a new item was "cleaned up" before any edits were made.

Undo

• Fixed an undo bug on first launch where using Undo could undo the creation of the entire database rather than just the latest change.
• Fixed a bug which prevented undoing the delete of an attachment which had been synchronized from a different device.

Miscellaneous

• Bonjour syncing no longer requires an app restart when switching networks or resuming from the background.
• Enabled iTunes file sharing so you can download and upload the OmniFocus database using iTunes.
• When filtering projects to only show the available actions, they now also show any action groups which contain available actions (so that you can get to available actions which aren't at the top level).
• Fixed a regression in 1.7 where it was impossible to move items inside other items until you rotated the device between portrait and landscape mode.
• Worked around a bug in iOS 4 which caused the error "Unrecognized date string for transaction" for some locales.
• Fixed a rare crash encountered while updating a grouped list of actions.
• Fixed several landscape orientation layout issues.
• OmniFocus will no longer attempt to record audio on an iPod touch when it doesn't have a microphone plugged in. (This fixes a bug where attempting to record audio on an iPod touch without a mic would break image attachments.)
• Opening an "omnifocus:" URL (with no path) will no longer present an "Invalid URL" dialog.
• Updated the Due Soon icon so its hands point to a different time than the Due icon.
• Updated the Search icon to match the style of the other icons.

OmniFocus 1.7 is a major update to OmniFocus which adds new high-resolution artwork and adds support for multitasking features introduced in iOS 4. We hope you enjoy this update, and we look forward to your feedback!

Design

• In preparation for the new high-resolution display on iPhone 4 we've refreshed all of the artwork in OmniFocus. We hope you like the new look!

Multitasking on iOS 4

• OmniFocus now uses local notifications to present due alerts when running on iOS 4 or later, so you can receive alerts for due tasks even if you're not syncing with a server. (Synced calendar alerts are still available for devices which are running earlier versions of the operating system.)
• OmniFocus is now a multitasking-aware application, allowing it to be quickly suspended and resumed on iOS 4.
• OmniFocus can complete some operations in the background on iOS 4, such as optimizing its database.

General

• The Completed perspective now includes items from completed projects, not just active projects.
• Fixed a bug which prevented audio from recording in OmniFocus 1.6.5.
• Fixed a crash when tapping "Save" while audio recording was still in progress.

• When adding a photo attachment on devices with cameras, you now have the option of picking an existing photo from your photo library.
• Fixed a problem which could cause completed projects to be reopened when an out-of-date device was synchronized.
• OmniFocus for iPhone now starts with the same built-in perspectives as OmniFocus for Mac (such as the Completed perspective, which shows completed items grouped and ordered by completion date).
• Calendar notifications no longer have an unusably long prefix for German.
• Fixed a bug where Settings wasn't laying out properly after using the Compact Database button.
• Installing the Safari bookmarklet no longer prompts with a redundant message.
• Send Feedback no longer crashes when Mail isn't set up.
• Fixed some compatibility issues with future versions of the iPhone OS.
• If the sync database needs to be compacted, OmniFocus will automatically unregister clients which haven't synchronized in over three weeks.
• Fixed a spurious "Cannot Save" error which could occur when syncing old changes after creating attachments.

OmniFocus 1.6.3 fixes a timing issue in 1.6.2 which could sometimes cause the app to crash during database optimization.

We've launched our first two iPad apps, OmniGraffle and OmniGraphSketcher! We anticipate that OmniFocus for iPad will be ready in June; for more information on our iPad plans, see blog.omnigroup.com.

Meanwhile, OmniFocus 1.6.2 for iPhone is a minor update to OmniFocus which focuses on workflow improvements and bug fixes.

Workflow

• Groups are now considered actionable. They can block other actions in a sequence, and are eligible to become the first "next action" for a project. Groups are blocked by their children.
• Groups and projects can now appear in Context mode perspectives.

Stability

• Fixed a crash encountered when an omnifocus:///change-setting URL specified a setting which wasn't registered.
• Fixed a crash sometimes encountered when handling a "Send to OmniFocus" request from another app.
• Fixed a crash sometimes encountered when leaving the Nearby list.
• Fixed a crash encountered when deleting an action from the Nearby list.

Bugs

• Fixed a bug where Due Soon, Overdue, and Blocked items wouldn't always update on schedule.
• Fixed a bug which could cause duplication of a repeating due project or group during synchronization.
• Fixed a bug where the Context screen was no longer showing its title.
• Fixed 1.6.1's regressions in navigation, which were causing bugs opening items linked from other apps (particularly calendar alerts) or moved within OmniFocus itself.
• Fixed an issue where editing a task's due date wouldn't always update its overdue status.

Interface Polish

• In Settings, reduced the size of the action buttons and updated the text describing the Safari bookmarklet.
• In Bonjour sync settings, relabeled the "none" entry to say "Connect to database".

Perspectives

• Perspectives now support "No Context" being selected in the sidebar.
• Perspectives no longer show projects or action groups by default.
• Perspectives can display items from the Inbox.
• Fixed a bug where recently-edited items wouldn't appear in perspectives right away.
• Fixed flagged and duration-filter perspectives to stop showing parents of matching items.
• Perspectives now implement the "Due Soon" and "Due Soon or Flagged" status filters.
• Perspectives will now pay attention to saved searches.

OmniFocus Links

• Added support for links to perspectives (e.g. omnifocus:///perspective/Completed).
• Added support for links to the Search screen (e.g. omnifocus:///search?q=OmniFocus).
• Added support for changing synchronized settings through settings links like these:
  • omnifocus:///change-setting?ContextModeShowsParents=true
  • omnifocus:///change-setting?DefaultDueTime=22:00

Localizations

• Updated the localizations for German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, and Simplified Chinese.
• Fixed a bug where the Record Audio button wouldn't work when the language was French unless the device was rotated to landscape mode.
• Fixed a similar bug where the Business Search and Always Available context location options wouldn't work when the language was set to Italian, unless the device was rotated to landscape mode.

Interface Polish

• Fixed a bug where the Edit button would fail to appear or disappear when updating a list of items on the screen.
• Fixed a bug where the Search screen would briefly display the status "No Results Found" before showing all the matching results.
• Toolbar icons should no longer shift when entering action detail screens.
• The text on the welcome screen is no longer slightly cropped.

Notifications

• Fixed a bug where calendar notifications wouldn't display in iCal in the UK Region unless 24 hour mode was turned on.

Stability

• Fixed a crash encountered when trying to delete a location from the Nearby List.
• Fixed a crash encountered when adding a new action and saving without entering any information.
• The Perspectives list will no longer crash when a perspective's icon attachment is missing from the database.

Performance

• Syncing multiple changes from the sync server should be dramatically faster. (Syncing is over five times faster for several of our test cases.)
• Removed a workaround for an HTTP authentication bug in iPhone OS 2.x, eliminating an extra round trip to the sync server for each synchronized change.
• OmniFocus now automatically compacts its database history when synchronization is disabled, rather than building up more and more history (which made OmniFocus slower and slower).
• Reduced memory usage in a number of places.

Animation

• List updates are now animated and immediate: When you check off a repeating item, the old item checks off and fades from view while the new item slides in from the right. Similarly, if you check off an item in a sequential project which was blocking several other items, you'll see it check off and fade out while the newly available items it was blocking slide in from the side of the screen. (This is clearer to see than to explain!)

Quick Entry

• It wasn't very clear that Quick Entry is available while the database loads, so we've added a "Quick Entry" label on the loading screen to help draw more attention to that button.
• Quick Entry is now also available while updating with synced data.
• Quick Entry can now be used more than once in a row while a progress bar is visible.
• Quick Entry no longer displays fields which can't be used while the database is unavailable (such as context, project, and repeat).

App Integration

• OmniFocus can now accept tasks from other applications! As a demo of this functionality, there's now an "Install Safari Bookmarklet" option under Experimental Settings (to install a bookmarklet which sends your current web page from Safari to OmniFocus).

Perspectives

• Added experimental support for synchronizing perspectives from the Mac version of OmniFocus. This is still a work in progress, and currently only supports non-hierarchical (Context mode) perspectives. You can enable support for Perspectives under Experimental Settings, at which point you'll see a new Perspectives top-level item in the Home screen.

Workflow

• Actions which have been deferred (by setting a future start date) will no longer appear in lists of available or due soon actions. (After all, that's the purpose of deferring an action!) Deferred actions which are overdue will continue to appear in the Overdue list. ("Overdue" still trumps "Deferred".)
• Inbox items now show up in Context lists. This behavior will be customizable in the future for those who would prefer to use the Inbox as a triage dumping ground rather than a work area.)
• When a project is on hold or otherwise inactive, its actions are no longer considered to be available.

General

• The default filename for the reminder calendar is now OmniFocus-Reminders.ics rather than DueSoon.ics, and settings for the reminder calendar are now synchronized between all clients (including OmniFocus 1.8 for Mac) rather than being stored as a local preference. Please feel free to remove your old DueSoon.ics calendar and any subscriptions to it.
• Added support for viewing RTF attachments.
• Updated localizable content.

Counters

• When projects are configured to show all items, they will show a count of all items within the project rather than just the "remaining" (unfinished) items.
• When context lists are configured to show only "next" actions, contexts will now display a count of the number of next actions they contain.
• Fixed a bug where syncing a change to an action's start date wouldn't always change its context's count of available actions.
• Fixed a bug where project lists would sometimes display "-1 overdue" (or "-1 due soon") when the project itself was past (or approaching) its due date but blocked from actually becoming due (such as when its parent folder was dropped, or the project itself was deferred).
• Item counts in context lists are now properly updated when a change to an item's context is synchronized from another copy of OmniFocus.

Interface

• While updating with synced data, the progress bar now shows meaningful progress updates.
• The Nearby Contexts list now only shows contexts which are within 50km (~30 miles) by default. You can change this by using a settings link to update the NearbyDistanceLimit setting (specified in km).
• Fixed an issue where the sync password prompt wouldn't always appear.
• Eliminated some flicker in the toolbar when navigating from one screen to another.
• On the Nearby list, contexts which are at the same distance (or are being edited) are now sorted by their order from the Contexts list (rather than alphabetically or randomly).
• You can now delete actions from lists which group actions into sections (such as the All Actions and Nearby lists).

Bugs

• Fixed a bug which could cause the Due Soon, Overdue, and Flagged lists to be out of date.
• When a project appears in a search list, checking it off now correctly changes its state to Done.

Synchronization

• As noted above, synchronization is now dramatically faster in some cases.
• A sync progress bar now appears when updating the database with synchronized changes.
• Fixed a problem which could cause sync database incompatibilities if you synced from a non-list screen (e.g. when editing an action, project, or context), made some edits, but didn't sync those edits before exiting OmniFocus.
• When OmniFocus defers synchronization because it's displaying a modal screen which doesn't want automatic changes applied while it's active, they now get applied as soon as you leave that screen (rather than waiting for a subsequent screen transition).
• While prompting for a sync password, autosync will no longer try to start a second sync.
• Improved error reporting when attempting to sync with some Windows WebDAV servers.

Stability

• Fixed a Nearby List crash encountered when leaving Edit mode just as a context finished looking up its address.
• Fixed a Nearby Map crash encountered when leaving Edit mode as a new dropped pin finished looking up its address.
• Fixed a crash on the Nearby Map or List which could happen when the location manager reported a change to the device's current location.
• Fixed a crash encountered when trying to quit the app while the progress bar is up.
• Fixed a crash encountered when an address for a map location is received from the network after leaving the Map screen.
• Fixed a crash encountered when leaving Quick Entry.
• Fixed a bug with jittery/flashy/crashy behavior encountered when editing the context list in the Nearby screen.
• Fixed some crashes triggered by deleting items from a list.
• Fixed some crashes encountered when checking off items on the Nearby list.

Here are some of the changes in the 1.5.3 update:

• Fixed a crash which happened on iPhone OS 3.1 when leaving the Nearby screen.
• Added a setting for whether the app badge counts flagged actions.
• Updated support for viewing attached Microsoft Office documents to work with iPhone OS 3.0.
• Fixed a bug where OmniFocus would continue to generate the OmniFocus Reminder calendar even after reminders had been turned off.
• Fixed the crash when pressing the Reset Database button in the Settings screen.
• OmniFocus will no longer report an out-of-date error about not being able to find a Bonjour sync server.
• Improved syncing performance by reducing the amount of sync history (zip files) required to keep multiple systems synchronized.
• Fixed a bug where syncing a change to reactivate a folder wouldn't always update the derived state of its child folders and projects.
• Fixed a bug where OmniFocus wouldn't always detect conflicts between incompatible sync databases.