OmniFocus 4.8.12 for All Platforms

OmniFocus 4.8.12 is a minor update focused on bug fixes.

All Platforms

• Custom Perspectives — Improved perspective rule editing reliability, addressing scenarios in which it previously appeared that a rule change needed to be made twice before it took effect.
• Forecast — Improved reliability of Forecast sort order when both calendar events and an item due on a prior date are displayed for a specific day.
• Forecast — Fixed a bug that could cause inaccurate “Keep Sorted” checkbox state.

Mac

• Cursor — Fixed a bug that could cause cursor appearance to get stuck in incorrect state.
• Inspector — Restored ability to re-order tags in the Inspector via drag & drop.
• Outline — Completion Dates entered in outline popover are no longer discarded.
• Outline — Metadata is now correctly displayed for newly selected item after deletion of previously selected item.
• Sidebar — Cancelling deletion of a sidebar item no longer causes sidebar selection to fall out of sync with displayed outline content.

OmniFocus 4.8.11 for All Platforms

OmniFocus 4.8.11 is a minor update focused on bug fixes.

All Platforms

• Documentation — Updated “Capture Methods” reference manual chapter.
• Omni Automation — Fixed recently introduced regression setting link styles via Omni Automation.

Mac

• Forecast — Extending Forecast sidebar selection via arrow keys now works in all directions.
• Forecast — Fixed an outline display bug that could occur when wrapping metadata to a second line in Forecast.
• Inspector — Dates entered in Inspector Completed field are no longer discarded when clicking into or tabbing to the Dropped field.
• Inspector — Inspector no longer has one rounded corner on recent versions of macOS.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when hovering cursor over full screen window edge.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur animating View Options popover.

OmniFocus 4.8.10 for All Platforms

Mac

• VoiceOver — VoiceOver now correctly reads title instead of status for unavailable items in the sidebar.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when attempting to set note text via Omni Automation.

OmniFocus 4.8.9 for All Platforms

All Platforms

• Flagged — Fixed buggy view filtering in Flagged perspective; Flagged now reliably displays correct items in outline across all platforms.
• Omni Automation — Multiple mutually exclusive tags can no longer be assigned to an item via Omni Automation.
• Sidebar — Perspectives showing remaining items now only show tags in the sidebar for those visible items, rather than also including tags from dropped items.
• Stability — Fixed a crash in the OmniFocus widget.

Mac

• Outline — Content can now be dragged from outside OmniFocus into empty outlines and space below last displayed item in an outline.
• Outline — Safari links and Mail messages can now be dragged into outline.
• Outline — Display fields are no longer clipped in fluid outline after duplicating or pasting an item.
• Outline — Addressed column layout issue when opening perspectives set to “Always Open in New Window.”
• Perspectives Bar — Adjusted padding around topmost perspective selection highlight.
• Perspectives Bar — Improved highlight when clicking on a perspective.
• Sidebar — Sidebar bottom buttons are no longer clipped.
• Writing Tools — Invoking Writing Tools in the Notes field for an item no longer unexpectedly replaces text in the Title field.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur on layout in Forecast.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when editing a note.

OmniFocus 4.8.8 for Mac

Mac

• Crash Reporting — Updated crash reporter for compatibility with macOS Tahoe 26.3.