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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Sam

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.

January 29 2007 at 10:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Patrick

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@

January 24 2007 at 2:30 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jonathan

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! :-)

January 15 2007 at 3:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Frank

Will it support multiple users in a client/server model? This would be really nice for small workgroups or teams.

January 15 2007 at 1:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

michelle

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

January 11 2007 at 9:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Clive Walters

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.

January 10 2007 at 1:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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.

January 09 2007 at 5:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Alistair

An early application to be a beta tester. I live in KGTD but I can't get it to be really helpful.

January 09 2007 at 10:13 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Markuz

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 :)

January 09 2007 at 9:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

south

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.

January 09 2007 at 7:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply