OmniFocus for iPad 1.3 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.
This update also includes full screen note viewing and editing, improved support for screen mirroring, and a number of other user interface and workflow improvements.
Forecast
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Forecast mode now integrates calendar events into a convenient timeline. Use the View options menu to configure which calendars appear on the timeline, and the range of hours for which events are displayed. (This feature requires iOS 4.0 or later.)
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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.
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Tapping “View” on a Due Reminder alert now takes you to the Forecast screen, showing you all items which have become overdue at once.
Editing
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The Note section of the Editor now includes an expand button. Tap on the expand button to view or edit your notes full screen.
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When searching in the Project and Context pickers, Smart Match terms are underlined in the search results.
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When assigning a Project or Context to an Action, search results are now presented in Library order rather than alphabetically.
Workflow
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The application’s badge counts the union of overdue, due soon, and flagged items. Items that are both flagged and overdue or due soon are no longer counted twice.
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Folders’ remaining count incorrectly included Single-Action Lists.
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Dropped Contexts are only visible in the Context move popover when the current View options are set to All.
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Dropped Folders are only visible in the Project move popover when the current View options are set to All.
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Errors from automatic sync sessions no longer interrupt you with an alert. Instead, the Sync button is badged. Tapping the Sync button will display the error alert and offer to retry the sync.
User Interface
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OmniFocus takes advantage of hardware screen mirroring when available.
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When mirroring your iPad 2 on a secondary display, OmniFocus now shows your gestures—taps, pinches, swipes, and all—so that your viewers can follow along.
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Untitled items are now correctly represented in Project, Action, and Context lists.
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Fixed a bug that could cause incorrect sorting of a Perspective’s actions when grouped by a date.
Inbox
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The Inbox badge count no longer includes completed items.
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Items blocked by a future start date are once again excluded from the Inbox badge count.
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Paste and New Action are now available from the contextual menu for the Inbox header.
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Fixed a bug which prevented you from moving an item to the top of the Inbox.
Review
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Projects within the Review sidebar are sorted in Library order.
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Fixed a bug where launching OmniFocus into Review mode with the Inbox selected incorrectly resulted in an empty list of projects needing review.
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When there are no remaining Projects requiring review, the plus button no longer gives multiple choices for creating an Inbox item.
Stability
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Fixed a crash which could occur when entering the background and using Bonjour syncing.
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Fixed a rare problem which could lead to a crash if OmniFocus received a memory warning while in landscape orientation.
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Fixed a regression where Email Debug Info (to the OmniFocus support ninjas) was inappropriately using the in-app mail client.
OmniFocus 1.2 introduces support for multitasking features available in iOS 4.2, including support for sync completion when suspended in the background and the addition of local notifications so you can receive alerts for due tasks. In addition, it is now available in several more languages and makes numerous interface, performance, and stability fixes when running on iOS 4.2.
Multitasking
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OmniFocus for iPad is now a multitasking-aware application, allowing it to be quickly suspended and resumed on iOS 4.2.
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When running on iOS 4.2 or later, OmniFocus will complete an in-progress sync session when it is put into the background.
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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.
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OmniFocus now uses local notifications to present due reminder alerts when running on iOS 4.2 or later, so you can receive alerts for due actions 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.)
Localization
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OmniFocus is now available in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, and Simplified Chinese.
Maps
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Geolocation and business results are now displayed in your preferred language when possible.
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When running on iOS 4.2 or later, OmniFocus now uses the compass arrow icon for centering the map on the current location.
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Fixed a bug when running on iOS 4.2 which made it difficult to tap the Search button in the search HUD on the map.
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Locations can now be assigned to contexts without first clearing the existing location.
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Fixed a bug when running under iOS 4.2 that prevented the nearby context popover from appearing.
User Interface
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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.
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Projects and Contexts in the sidebar are now always displayed in bold.
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Fixed a bug in Review mode where modifying Inbox items could incorrectly result in projects in the sidebar appearing to have been marked reviewed.
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Fixed an alignment issue when using custom icons for perspectives.
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The overdue and due soon badge background colors now match the forecast segment's background when selected.
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Fixed a bug where the badge background in the forecast's future segment was drawn in the wrong color.
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Fixed a bug when running on iOS 4.2 where sidebar selection could be lost or flash upon updates to the main outline.
Editing
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The go to project/context button now appears on the side of the project/context button.
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The Action editor can now mark action groups as either parallel or sequential.
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When assigning an action's context or project, available choices are now sorted using localized, case-insensitive rules.
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Item editors and Quick Entry autosave in-progress edits when the application is put into the background.
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The item editor disables interaction events during keyboard animation to avoid errant taps.
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Fixed a regression when running iOS 4.2 that required a double tap to enter note editing.
Sync
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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.
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Fixed a workaround for some quirks in cPanel servers.
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Fixed some problems with syncing to servers with expired, self-signed, or otherwise exceptionable certificates.
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Tapping on an OmniFocus sync settings URL now automatically dismisses the Welcome Screen and performs a sync if appropriate.
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The sync credential alert now works correctly when running on iOS 4.2.
Stability & Performance
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Fixed crashes when attempting to send email from within OmniFocus on a device where no email accounts have been configured in Mail.
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Fixed an intermittent crash when switching to Forecast mode when no actions appeared under Today.
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Fixed an intermittent crash when using the Send to OmniFocus bookmarklet.
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Worked around a bug in iOS 4.2 which could cause the application to crash after using a contextual menu on a project or context.
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Opening the Settings screen is considerably faster for databases which contain a large number of zip files.
