OmniFocus 4.8.9 is a minor update focused on bug fixes.

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.

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.

iPhone

• Search — Search can now be initiated when sidebar is displayed.
• Sidebar — Perspective title is now displayed in sidebar toolbar.
• Keyboard — Using the on-screen keyboard to edit an item now collapses the navigation bar so more of the item is visible.
• Navigation Bar — Adjusted spacing between Navigation Bar and on-screen keyboard.
• Navigation Bar — Fixed a bug that could cause Navigation Bar expansion state to get stuck.
• Navigation Bar — Improved Navigation Bar layout on smaller iPhones.
• Navigation Bar — Navigation Bar no longer animates unexpectedly when navigating to or from Review perspective.
• Navigation Bar — Fixed a slight jitter that could happen when the Navigation Bar expands while scrolling on iOS 26.
• Outline — Fixed a bug that could cause outline scroll position to jump unexpectedly when navigating between outline and Inspector.
• Perspective Title — Fixed some bugs with the appearance of the perspective title when switching between the outline and sidebar.
• Toolbar — Addressed unexpected toolbar button animation and tint.
• Quick Entry — Improved initial character input reliability.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when dismissing Quick Open.

iPad

• Menus — Updated Edit menu.
• Perspectives Bar — Adjusted selection highlight.

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.

Shortcuts actions require OmniOutliner Pro.

All Platforms

• Shortcuts — New Shortcuts actions for:
  • Create New Outline
  • Get All Columns
  • Get Column with Name
  • Get Outline Column
  • Get Note Column
  • Get Status Column
  • Get Selected Rows
  • Get Outline Root
  • Get Outline Row with Identifier
  • Get Children for Row
  • Get All Descendants for Row
  • Keep Sorted by Column
  • Set Column Summary
  • Set Column Visibility
  • Add Child to Row
  • Delete Row
  • Set Rich Text
  • Append Rich Text
  • Prepend Rich Text
  • Get Row Value in Column
  • Set Row Value in Column
  • Add Column to Outline
  • Add Value to Pop-up List

Shortcuts actions require OmniOutliner Pro.

All Platforms

• Shortcuts — New Shortcuts actions for:
  • Create New Outline
  • Get All Columns
  • Get Column with Name
  • Get Outline Column
  • Get Note Column
  • Get Status Column
  • Get Selected Rows
  • Get Outline Root
  • Get Outline Row with Identifier
  • Get Children for Row
  • Get All Descendants for Row
  • Keep Sorted by Column
  • Set Column Summary
  • Set Column Visibility
  • Add Child to Row
  • Delete Row
  • Set Rich Text
  • Append Rich Text
  • Prepend Rich Text
  • Get Row Value in Column
  • Set Row Value in Column
  • Add Column to Outline
  • Add Value to Pop-up List

Shortcuts actions require OmniOutliner Pro.

All Platforms

• Shortcuts — New Shortcuts actions for:
  • Create New Outline
  • Get All Columns
  • Get Column with Name
  • Get Outline Column
  • Get Note Column
  • Get Status Column
  • Get Selected Rows
  • Get Outline Root
  • Get Outline Row with Identifier
  • Get Children for Row
  • Get All Descendants for Row
  • Keep Sorted by Column
  • Set Column Summary
  • Set Column Visibility
  • Add Child to Row
  • Delete Row
  • Set Rich Text
  • Append Rich Text
  • Prepend Rich Text
  • Get Row Value in Column
  • Set Row Value in Column
  • Add Column to Outline
  • Add Value to Pop-up List

Mac

• Open Panel — Open panel is now presented when OmniOutliner launches with no documents to restore.
• Open Panel — Added a New Document button to the Open panel.
• Sections List — Reordering in the Sections List works reliably.

• Crash Reporting — Updated crash reporter for compatibility with macOS Tahoe 26.3.
• Interval Tracking — Interval tracking values are no longer exported incorrectly at some date scales.

Mac

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