Omnifocus For Mac Manual

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Omnifocus Mac Manual

Two-week free trial! OmniFocus Standard and Pro are in-app purchases, with discounts for people who bought earlier versions of OmniFocus for Mac through the Mac App Store. Or you can get OmniFocus for iOS, Mac, and web for just one price with the OmniFocus Subscription. Download the app for details.
Use OmniFocus to accomplish more every day. Create projects and tasks, organize them with tags, focus on what you can do right now — and get stuff done.
OmniFocus — now celebrating 10 years as the trusted, gold-standard to-do list app — brings unrivaled power and flexibility to your Mac, making it easy to work the way you want to work.
OmniFocus manages everything in your busy life. Use projects to organize tasks naturally, and then add tags to organize across projects. Easily enter tasks when you’re on the go, and process them when you have time. Tap the Forecast view — which shows both tasks and calendar events — to get a handle on your day. Use the Review perspective to keep your projects and tasks on track.
Then let our free syncing system make sure your data is the same on every Mac. (And on OmniFocus for iOS and Web, available separately.) Because your data is encrypted, it’s safe in the cloud.
STANDARD FEATURES (VIA IN-APP PURCHASE)
• NEW: Tags add a powerful additional organizing tool. Create tags for people, energy levels, priorities, locations, and more.
• NEW: The Forecast view shows your tasks and calendar events in order, so you can better see what’s coming up in your day.
• NEW: Enhanced repeating tasks are easier than ever to set up — and they work with real-world examples such as the first weekday of the month.
• NEW: The Modern, fresh-but-familiar design helps you focus on your content.
• Inbox is where you quickly add tasks — save them when you think of them, and organize them later.
• Syncing supports end-to-end encryption so that your data is safe wherever it’s stored, on our server or yours.
• Notes can be attached to your tasks, so you have all the information you need.
• Attachments — graphics, video, audio, whatever you want — add richness to your tasks.
• View Options let you customize each perspective by deciding what it should show and how it should filter your tasks.
• The Review perspective takes you through your projects and tasks — so you stay on track.
• OmniFocus Mail Drop adds tasks via email and works with services like IFTTT and Zapier (if you’re using our free syncing server).
• The Today Widget shows you your most important items — you don’t even have to switch to the app to know what’s up.
• Support for TaskPaper Text and omnifocus:///add and /paste lets you automate using URLs.
Pro features make OmniFocus even more powerful:
PRO FEATURES (VIA IN-APP PURCHASE)
• Custom perspectives help you create new ways to see your data by filtering and grouping projects and tags. NEW: The filtering rules are simpler to use while being more powerful than ever, letting you combine rules with “all,” “any,” and “none.” You can also choose any image to use as your custom perspective’s icon, and a custom tint color to go with it.
• NEW: Today’s Forecast can include items with a specific tag, and you can reorder those tasks however you choose, so you can plan your day better.
• The customizable sidebar lets you organize your perspectives the way you want to, for super-fast access.
• The Today Widget shows a perspective of your choice in Notification Center.
• AppleScript support opens up a world of automation, using Apple’s Mac scripting language.
Download OmniFocus right now and start your free trial! The app includes a manual, and there’s plenty more documentation on the website.
SUPPORT
If you have feedback or questions, our Support Humans would love to hear from you! Send email to omnifocus@omnigroup.com, call us at at 1-800-315-6664 or +1-206-523-4152, or reach us on Twitter at @omnifocus.
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What’s New

(The Mac App Store version of OmniFocus delivers updates through the App Store.) Preferences (Command-,) Open the OmniFocus Preferences window, where you can customize how the application works for you. Licenses (Omni Store Only) Open the Licenses window, where you can add OmniFocus licenses you’ve bought, or check your existing licenses. OmniFocus for iPhone complements OmniFocus for Mac and OmniFocus for iPad, bringing all the power and versatility of the OmniFocus system to the palm of your hand. It uses the latest features of the iPhone to help you get things done when it’s most sensible, convenient, and eﬃcient to do them. The OmniFocus interface is laid out to be as GTD-friendly as possible. However, that doesn’t mean much until we know what we’re looking for. This section will elaborate on the basics of GTD in OmniFocus. OmniFocus Through the Eyes of a GTD Practitioner 1 Inbox: This is a place to capture your stuff. Stuff is anything that has. OmniFocus comes with a few contexts already created for you. Add some new contexts by clicking the plus button below the sidebar, or double-click an existing context’s name to change it. Make as many contexts as you need for the various places and modes you have for doing work: Home, Oﬃce, Mac, Errands, Phone, and so on. You can always add more. “OmniFocus 3 for Mac is a powerful and highly-refined task manager; the culmination of ten years of development. It’s the app that I trust for honouring my commitments, making effective use of my time and energy, and giving all areas of my life the appropriate amount of attention.” Tim Stringer, Founder, Learn OmniFocus.

OmniFocus 3.4.2 is a minor update focused on bug fixes.
• Counts — Fixed a problem where counts of active items could include items that were completed via the completion of a parent.
• Crash — Fixed a crash selecting a perspective in the Perspectives window.
• Notifications — Fixed a problem where notifications for dropped items were still firing.
• Summaries and Badges — Fixed a problem where summaries and badges could include items that had been dropped or completed.
If you have any feedback or questions, we’d love to hear from you! The Omni Group offers free tech support; you can email omnifocus@omnigroup.com, call 1–800–315–6664 or 1–206–523–4152, or tweet @OmniFocus.
If OmniFocus empowers you, we would appreciate an App Store review. Your review will help other people find OmniFocus and make them more productive too.

104 Ratings

Loses the timeline view under forecasts

Works just like Omnifocus 2 but with the benefit of multiple tags which were previously known as contexts. In the prior versions of omnifocus, you could only have 1 context which was dictated by the GTD methoid. Now, the contexts have been changed to “tags” and a task can have more than one.
One issue with omnifocus 3 is that In Omnifocus 2, events will appear as blocked off time in a schedule which visually helps me determine which other projects/tasks I can fit into my day. In Omnifocus 3, you lose this view and get your events as bullet points. I have reached out to omnifocus support for help 13 days ago followed by a second email 5 days ago and they have not replied. I’d expect that for the price they ask for on this app, that they would reply back at least within 24-48 hours. Hopefully this catches their attention.
Overall, if you have Omnifocus 2, I don’t see a need to upgrade now to 3.

Developer Response,

Thank you for taking the time to write a review, and sorry for the lack of response to your email! Our support department is catching up with the emails received after OmniFocus 3 was released. We've prioritized those emails where a customer is unable to use the app and unfortunately that means that for emails where OmniFocus is working as designed, as in your case, we are approximately two weeks behind as of this writing.
We're sorry to hear that the change to Forecast is not to your liking. We first made this change in OmniFocus for iOS earlier this year, and most customers have found that seeing their actions in between their calendar events gives them a better idea of when they can get things done on a given day. However, you're not the only person to let us know you'd like to see the old view returned and we're currently evaluating whether that's something we can do along those lines in a future release. Overall, we're sorry to hear that you don't find the additions in OmniFocus 3 worth the price of upgrade. Hopefully you'll take another look in the future as we continue to add features to OmniFocus 3.

A Must Have For Productivity!

I recently upgraded from OmniFocus 2 to OmniFocus 3. At first I was a bit disappointed. Stylistically the app doesn’t look much different than the previous version until after a few days later when I realized that there is so much under the hood. In fact it is a brand new an incredibly powerful productivity tool that has maintained the same familiarity that its users have grown accustomed to, while adding tremendous amount of power and flexibility, so much so that I would say whether you follow GTD or any other system, or you want to make your own OmniFocus can support that. The note field is absolutely incredible. You can add an email and it would display as if you are viewing it in your email client. Tags are incredibly powerful and easy. Custom perspectives can organize your data however you like to view it . While you can customize the app to such degree that it no longer looks like when you first got it, it is incredibly powerful and useful right out of the box. Another feature that I absolutely love is the Review Perspective which is so unique to OmniFocus and not offered by any other productivity app on the market. I can keep writing but all of this is a testament to the OmniGroup for their ability and understanding of how to make us more productive while enjoying the process. Many, many Thanks!!!

learning curve is worth it

This isn't your typical 'to do list' app, though you can use it like one if you want. Think of Omnifocus as a master database of *everything* you need to do across all your areas of responsibility -- but with tools that help you work in managable chunks. And yes, that means if you want to make a to-do list you totally can, but you can also create meaningful contexts for your todos so you see (and do) them within the bigger picture.
It takes a little time to get all this set up to your liking, but their onboarding tutorials and videos are very helpful. And once it is all running, it's so helpful to have all your tasks in one place instead of spread out among multiple apps, emails, notebooks etc. Having this trusted system certainly made my life run more smoothly once I had it set up.
Oh, and if you're wondering about the strength of Omni's built-in sync service, I've been using it for years with consistently great results. Easily on par with the reliability of Dropbox or iCloud.

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