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OmniFocus Sneak Preview
OmniGroup today hosted a special event at the flagship Apple store in San Francisco to give users a sneak peak into their upcoming GTD productivity software OmniFocus. TUAW was there and brings you this special bulleted report!
- OmniFocus, unlike its predecessor KinklessGTD will feature an instant data propagation across the app, thus doing away with the need for a "sync button," and ensuring your data is always where you expect it to be.
- OmniFocus will have a simpler and more streamlined interface than OmniOutliner, on which KGTD was built.
- Users will be able to view multiple or individual projects and contexts in either a single window or multiple separate windows.
- OmniFocus will support existing KGTD QuickSilver inbox-entry actions.
- OmniFocus will also feature a standalone proprietary quick-entry method via keystroke, similar to Yojimbo.
- Future versions will support user definable smart folders.
- The first version of OmniFocus will not require 10.5 Leopard, but all following versions will due to the use of Leopard only technologies.
- Like KGTD, OmniFocus will support syncing with portable devices through iCal.
- OmniFocus will be fully applescriptable.
- Future versions will support integration with OmniPlan.
- Future versions will support universal action creation from other applications (such as turning an email message or iCal to-do into an action).
- Future versions will support attaching or tying of files to actions and projects.
- OmniGroup is planning to release OmniFocus within the next few months.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Nathan Teske said 3:55AM on 1-09-2007
Was there any mention of importing existing kGTD documents? Because it would be the major suck to recreate everything.
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Daniel said 4:14AM on 1-09-2007
Yes, they mentioned that users would be able to import their existing kGTD files.
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Mengoxon said 4:24AM on 1-09-2007
sweet...
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Extensor said 4:32AM on 1-09-2007
When they mentioned Leopard only, it was in response to someone asking if OmniFocus would support Leopard's cool todo feature. Now don't be jealous but I got to sit next to Dan at the presentation. Cool guy. :D
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south said 7:40AM on 1-09-2007
if they do this then i'm really going to implement GTD in my lifestyle... no, really, this time i'm actually going to do it.
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Alistair Stobie said 10:17AM on 1-09-2007
An early application to be a beta tester. I live in KGTD but I can't get it to be really helpful.
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Markuz said 10:48AM on 1-09-2007
OmniGroup does great stuff, if this OmniFocus is that good I'll buy it and, same as south, try to implement GTD in my (digital) lifestyle :)
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Milo said 5:01PM on 1-09-2007
With the announcement of the iPhone, I can't wait (and hope) to see some OmniFocus integration with it. That is the one thing that is missing from my GTD system: on-the-go organizing of tasks, etc.
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Clive Walters said 1:56PM on 1-10-2007
Delighted to know that I only have a few months to go ... but it is a pity that "support attaching or tying of files to actions and projects" is a future, since OO does it so well, and it is an important part of the whole GTD (for me anyway) - so seems a bit of a backward step. Hopefully that future will come soon!
Thank you for giving the info.
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michelle said 1:15PM on 1-12-2007
Actually, attaching files will be a 1.0 feature. You can even see it in the mock-up. Thanks for your interest in the product!
Michelle
Omni Group
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Frank said 3:37PM on 1-15-2007
Will it support multiple users in a client/server model? This would be really nice for small workgroups or teams.
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Jonathan Baldwin said 3:39PM on 1-15-2007
Michelle! Pleeeeeeese let me in on the beta. I promise to put it through its paces with Treo integration etc etc... kGTD got a bit funny on me and I'm missing it. And with a whole academic year's teaching and research to plan, that's a lot to miss! :-)
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Patrick said 2:45AM on 1-24-2007
hey michelle,
if you are searching for beta-testers, i am happy to volunteer here, just email me. I am a def. buyer for focus, as i love omnigroups projects.
also, right now i am rebuilding my kGTD file for the 3rd time in a month, and, well, you know, the productivity gains via GTD and kGTD are wasted on "rebuild the damn thing"-actions.
so much for a context.
would love to.
kindest, p@
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Sam said 10:15PM on 1-29-2007
Hey Michelle... would be great for OmniFocus to auto-link to contacts, i.e. typing in 'Call John Doe" would automatically link to John Doe's record in AddressBook. Tx.
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