OmniFocus 4.3.2 for Apple Vision Pro

Our team is currently hard at work updating OmniFocus to support the new operating systems announced last month and shipping later this year. But we’ve also been fixing some important bugs!

• Drag & Drop — Adding items to the outline no longer breaks the long-press drag gesture.
• Forecast — Improved item sorting in Forecast, so items are sorted on selection change or Clean Up whenever Keep Sorted is enabled.
• Inspector: Title — Fixed a bug editing the title field with a hardware keyboard where the field could lose focus immediately after being tapped unless you tapped on another inspector field first.
• Inspector: Notes — Fixed a bug that could cause note edits in the inspector to be copied to a different item.
• Omni Automation — Automation scripts that present forms should no longer run into an error saying “No presenting view controller found.”
• Stability — Fixed a crash encountered when an building a Spotlight index after conflicting edits deleted an item which had a tag assigned to it on another device.
• Stability — Fixed a crash sometimes encountered while calculating the location of an item in Forecast.
• Sync Settings [Apple Vision Pro] — Updated the Replace Sync Data dialog to have a more reasonable size on visionOS.
• VoiceOver — Fixed a recent regression from the inspector redesign in 4.3 that could cause VoiceOver to get stuck in the top toolbar rather than navigating through the inspector fields.
• VoiceOver — Made it possible to navigate through search results that return results from outside the current perspective (i.e. when using the “Search Remaining” and “Search Everything” options).

OmniFocus 4.3.1 for Apple Vision Pro

• Custom Perspectives [Pro] — Displayed perspective rules now refresh automatically when changed in another context (such as another window, another device, or through some automation).
• Custom Perspectives [Pro] — When a perspective is organized by projects, hiding the “Preserve hierarchy” switch, its hidden value no longer affects the contents of the perspective.
• Custom Perspectives [Pro] — Restored ability to cancel out of upgrading legacy custom perspectives.
• Localization — Restored missing Spanish strings in View Options.
• Omni Automation [Pro] — Addressed a memory leak that could be triggered by repeatedly running Omni Automations via a shortcut.
• Outline — Empty space displayed at bottom of outline is now a drop target.
• Unsupported OS Alerts — Unsupported OS alert no longer presents on every app launch.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could be triggered by Omni Automation scripts which focus on a folder.

OmniFocus 4.3 for Apple Vision Pro

OmniFocus 4.3 introduces support for device Focus Filters and a new Set/Remove Favorite Perspective shortcut. Additionally, this release includes a wide range of improvements and bug fixes, including new custom perspective rule comments, enhanced Apple Watch sync reliability, and improved outline behavior in a variety of contexts.

• Shortcuts — New Set/Remove Favorite Perspective shortcut. With this shortcut, you can change your favorite perspectives based on your device focus or by using a Siri command. (Shortcut requires macOS 13, iOS 16, or iPadOS 16.)
• Custom Perspectives [Pro] — You can now intersperse comments among your perspective rules.
• Clean Up — Selected items now immediately clean up when removed from current view via drag & drop or a key command.
• Forecast Calendars — Calendar events are now enabled by default in Forecast on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro, matching the default behavior on Mac.
• Import — Choosing to skip syncing during setup now offers to import data from previous versions of OmniFocus.
• Inspector — Updated Inspector layout code to be better shared cross-platform, including some visual changes for cross-platform consistency.
• Localizations — Localization updates.
• Outline — Improved overall stability/reliability of outline order when editing.
• Review — Review now supports filtering by availability.
• Sync — Provide more context in the encryption passphrase prompt.
• Custom Perspectives [Pro] — The correct tag is now assigned when adding an action to a custom perspective which groups actions by tag but doesn’t sort them in Tags Order.
• Custom Perspectives [Pro] — Addressed a bug that could cause manually sorted custom perspectives to temporarily reorder after assigning a tag to an item.
• Custom Perspectives [Pro] — When a perspective is grouped, hiding the “Preserve hierarchy” switch, its hidden value no longer affects the contents of the perspective.
• Forecast — Improved flexible Forecast order logic when both “Preserve Hierarchy” and “Keep Sorted” are enabled.
• Forecast — Indenting an item in Forecast no longer causes temporary duplicate display of that item.
• Inbox — Fixed a bug that could cause Inbox items to reorder unexpectedly.
• Outline — Fixed a bug where items in the Inbox could not be reordered in the Projects perspective the way they could be in the Inbox perspective.
• Quick Open — Fixed a bug where using Quick Open to find a project or folder would fail to select that target in the sidebar when the window was focused.
• Sidebar — Fixed a bug that could cause content displayed in the outline to fall out of sync with the selection in the sidebar.
• Sync — Prevented a rare sync conflict that could be encountered when a device syncs changes while edits are in progress.
• TaskPaper — Default defer/due times are now respected when pasting TaskPaper items that only have a date.
• TaskPaper — The current year is now assumed when TaskPaper items include partial dates.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when a perspective with a date-based filter rule refreshes its reference date.

OmniFocus 4.2.1 for Apple Vision Pro

• Custom Perspectives [Pro] — “In the past” date range rules now include items through the current time today.
• Omni Automation [Pro] — Improved Omni Automation’s Install Link support for plug-ins hosted on Github.
• Custom Perspectives [Pro] — Addressed a bug that could cause incomplete outline content to display after modifying a custom perspective rule.
• Custom Perspectives [Pro] — Corrected capitalization for “Has date in range” rule summaries.
• Omni Automation [Pro] — Improved layout of Omni Automation window.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when changing search scope.
• Stability — Fixed a crash trigged by Omni Automation plug-ins which attach a file to an email.

OmniFocus 4.2 for Apple Vision Pro

OmniFocus 4.2 introduces new custom perspective rules that let you filter based on dates, repeats, and more. These new perspective rules require OmniFocus 4.2 or later; custom perspectives which use these rules will not be displayed in prior versions of OmniFocus. Custom perspectives require OmniFocus Pro.

• Custom Perspectives [Pro] — New “Has date in range” rule type enables filtering a perspective by assigned date range.
• Custom Perspectives [Pro] — New “Is repeating” rule enables filtering repeating tasks.
• Custom Perspectives [Pro] — New “Is project, group, or neither” rule type enables filtering for projects or groups.
• Custom Perspectives [Pro] — New “Is in single actions list” rule type enables filtering for items in single action lists.
• Siri — Implemented Siri support.
• Omni Automation [Pro] — It’s now possible to write a plug-in which changes the filter rules which define the contents of a perspective. See Perspective.Custom.archivedFilterRules.
• Omni Automation [Pro] — Updated appearance and organization of Omni Automation navigation bar and menus.
• Omni Automation [Pro] — See Automation API Reference Release Notes for additional Omni Automation updates.
• Repeats — Updated layout of repeat customization UI.
• Attachments — Correct appearance of audio recording hover effects.
• In App Purchases — “Done” button is now displayed after restoring a previous purchase.
• Inspector — Corrected padding for repeat and review text fields.
• Perspective Rules — Perspective rules correctly describe themselves using restrictive clause phrasing (“that”).
• Sidebar — Improve the animation used when hiding and showing the sidebar.
• Sync — Improved logic for updating linked encryption passphrase when account password is changed.
• Stability — Addressed crash on launch that could be encountered after creating a new item.