OmniFocus 3.5 adds two new Shortcut actions.

• Shortcuts — Added two new Shortcut actions, Add Item and Add TaskPaper, which duplicate the functionality of actions that have been built into Shortcuts since its introduction, but are maintained by Omni.
• Add Item Shortcut Action — This action takes text from input and sets the item’s name, and allows choosing a target project (or Inbox) and setting various metadata. It returns the resulting OmniFocus item, which you can pass to Show in OmniFocus or otherwise continue your workflow.
• Add TaskPaper Shortcut Action — This action takes TaskPaper-formatted text input and adds to a target specified anywhere in the Inbox or Projects hierarchy. It returns an array of the resulting OmniFocus items. If you add nested items using this action, only the top-level items are returned.
• Siri — Siri can now show completed tasks in OmniFocus using the built-in intent: “Show me my completed tasks using OmniFocus”.
• Background Activity — Fixed a condition that could cause a “Threading Policy Violation” when OmniFocus was foregrounded.
• Calendar — Worked around a bug in Calendar that would result in a crash when dragging in new items from OmniFocus.
• Completed Perspective — Fixed a problem grouping items that were completed by completing their parent.
• Crash — Fixed a crash acting on an OmniFocus notification with some kinds of content already visible in OmniFocus.
• Crash — Fixed a crash deleting items.
• Crash — Fixed a crash related to sync preferences.
• Crash — Fixed a crash switching perspectives while editing the note of an item that no longer matches the current perspective.
• Crash — Fixed a crash when pressing return on external keyboard quickly after quick entry.
• Crashes — Fixed several of our more common crashes in OmniFocus 3.4.x.
• Drag and Drop — Fixed a problem where selection highlight would disappear after a drag and drop in a long list of items.
• Drag and Drop — Improved drag and drop targeting in situations where indentation isn’t allowed.
• Image Attachments — Fixed several problems with the image attachment viewer.
• Inspector — Fixed a problem where the date picker rows in the inspector could stay expanded when changing selection, resulting in unintended date assignment.
• Inspector — Fixed a problem where the note tab icon wouldn’t reflect the state of the selected item.
• New Items — Fixed problems with metadata being lost on save when creating new items in compact.
• Notifications — Fixed a problem where the relevant item wasn’t scrolled into view when acting on a notification.
• Outline — Fixed a problem where the metadata fields under action titles and their separator dots could sometimes overlap.
• Outline — Fixed a problem where the outline wouldn’t scroll to keep the selected item in view when changing selection with the buttons in the inspector or an external keyboard.
• Perspective — Fixed a problem where you could save a new perspective before adding a title.
• Perspectives — Fixed a crash when editing a new perspective.
• Perspectives — Fixed a problem where perspectives which grouped and sorted entire projects by due date would use the dates of dropped children for sorting.
• Perspectives — Fixed a problem with filtering and children of due and/or flagged items in perspectives that group and sort entire projects.
• Share Extension — Fixed a problem where attachments sent via the Share extension would be lost when multiple external items were imported.
• Share Extension — Fixed problems where you couldn’t assign a tag or project whose name was duplicated elsewhere in your database.
• Summary — Fixed a problem where assigning a project to an action would “resurrect” a date which you cleared previously.
• Sync — Fixed a problem that would result in a “Reference of object which could not be resurrected TaskToTag” error message.
• URLs — Fixed a problem opening links to tags.
• URLs — Fixed a problem where tapping an omnifocus:///search URL would populate the search field, but not trigger the search.
• URLs — Fixed a problem where urls that opened tasks wouldn’t work from notes in some inspector presentations.
• URLs — Fixed an extra animation problem with omnifocus:///paste URLs.
• Show in OmniFocus — In this Shortcuts action, folders are now sorted in the same order as they are in your database.
• Smaller Fixes and Improvements — Thanks for sending in feedback!

OmniFocus 3.4.3 is a minor update focused on bug fixes.

• Background Activity — Fixed a condition that could cause a “Threading Policy Violation” when OmniFocus was foregrounded.
• Crash — Fixed a crash bringing OmniFocus to the foreground.
• Crash — Fixed a crash related to assigning tags.
• Crash — Fixed another of our most frequent crashes.
• Deleted Items — Fixed a problem that could result in a message like “Error encountered: Update of object which could not be resurrected Task…”
• First Launch — Fixed a problem with localized subtitles in the first-launch video.
• Sidebar — Fixed a problem where sidebar visibility would sometimes be forgotten when OmniFocus was backgrounded on iPadOS.

OmniFocus 3.4.2 is a minor update focused on bug fixes.

• Crash — Fixed a crash on launch.
• Forecast — Fixed a problem where the bottom toolbar wouldn’t update promptly.
• Inbox — Fixed a problem where dragging the New Inbox Item to create a “grandchild” in an existing action group would corrupt the existing hierarchy.
• Inspector — Fixed a problem with animation.
• Today — Fixed a problem where the New Inbox Item button wouldn’t appear in some cases.
• Undo — Fixed a problem with the Undo popover’s tint color. Fixed a problem using shake to undo while editing a note.
• URL Scheme — Fixed a problem where omnifocus:// urls for containers would open the inspector instead of the outline view.
• Clean Database — This operation now includes dropped items.
• In-App Purchase — You can now make a standalone purchase while a subscription is active, after confirming that’s really what you want to do. Fixed problems with the purchase options screen.
• Smaller Fixes and Improvements — Thanks for sending in feedback!

Looking for Shortcut inspiration? Check out our recent blog post with annotated examples!

• Dark Mode — Added an option in Settings to use dark (or light) mode regardless of the system appearance.
• Context Menus — Added Go to Project to the context menu for actions.
• Crash — Fixed a crash processing omnifocus:///paste URLs.
• Crash — Fixed a crash tapping Save + in the project inspector with a tag assigned.
• Crash — Fixed a crash with drag and drop.
• Inspector — Fixed an animation problem in the project sub-inspector.
• Notifications — Fixed a problem where an item would be displayed, but not selected in the outline, after tapping its notification.
• Subscriptions — Fixed a problem where subscription renewals weren’t recognized and OmniFocus would revert to Free Viewer mode.
• Sync — Fixed a problem where sync would be blocked when an inspector was open but the app was backgrounded.
• Toolbars — Fixed several toolbar animation problems.
• Undo — Fixed a problem where Undo-ing via Smart Keyboard would undo two actions instead of one.
• VoiceOver — Fixed a problem clearing locaton assignment in the tag inspector.
• Smaller Fixes and Improvements — Including crash fixes. Thanks for sending in feedback and crash reports!

OmniFocus 3.4 adds support for iOS 13 features like system dark mode, multiple windows, and parameterized shortcuts. This release requires iOS 13 and watchOS 4.

• Dark Mode — OmniFocus and its extensions now support and follow the iOS 13 system dark mode.
• Multiple Windows — You can now work across multiple OmniFocus windows on iPadOS. Create a new window by dragging the OmniFocus icon from the Dock or via App Exposé, by using the Open in New Window contextual menu item, or by dragging a dragging a folder, project, or tag row to the edge of the screen.
• Contextual Menus — OmniFocus 3.4 adopts the new iOS 13 contextual menu system, which is now accessible via long-press on rows in the outline.
• Parameterized Shortcuts — This release adds four new shortcut actions:
  • Find Items lets you search for items in your database based on availability, project, tags, dates, and more and pass them to other actions.
  • Show in OmniFocus shows a project, folder, tag, or perspective chosen from a list, or an item passed from the previous action.
  • Get Database Object from Input is useful when getting input from other shortcuts which cannot pass the OmniFocus Item custom type. It expects JSON in the format {"type": "project", "primaryKey": "pwanCgZeLXG", "version": 1.0}.
  • Show Database Object in OmniFocus shows a given Database Object in OmniFocus.
• Inspector — Completion Date and Dropped Date are now editable in the inspector once an item has been completed or dropped. Date Added and Date Changed are also shown as read-only rows.
• Modal Presentations — Modal presentations (like the compact inspector) now use the iOS 13 “card” appearance where appropriate. This means they can be easily dismissed by swiping downwards.
• Release Notes — Updates to these release notes are now automatically displayed on launch.
• iOS Search — Items completed or dropped in the last seven days are now included in the iOS Search index.
• Settings — Added a section for viewing and regenerating OmniFocus’ iOS Search index, for purposes of troubleshooting unexpected shorcut results.
• omnifocus:// URLs — Fixed a problem with search URLs.
• Outline — Fixed a problem where you couldn’t drag the New Inbox Item button to the end of a list to insert an item there.
• Siri — Fixed a problem where you couldn’t mark an item as complete using Siri in iOS 13
• Sync — Fixed a problem that could result in extra sync activity and poor performance if many copies of OmniFocus were syncing to the same location.
• Sync — Fixed a problem where launching OmniFocus after an iOS background fetch could show Dropped actions as still Remaining.
• Today Widget — Fixed a problem where the last item would sometimes not appear.
• Search — In iOS 13 empty outline views automically reveal the search bar by default and set the search scope Remaining or Everything as appropriate.
• Review — Updated “Next Review” sorting for custom perspectives to match OmniFocus for Mac, where projects needing review soonest are sorted to the top.
• Smaller Fixes and Improvements — Thanks for sending in your feedback!