Omni Group Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

DevJuice: Sneaking a peek at Bill Van Hecke's upcoming book

by Erica Sadun (Mar 11th, 2013)

If the name William Van Hecke doesn't ring a bell, he's the User Experience Lead for The Omni Group. He's the guy behind those beautiful interfaces, or as he puts it, "I try to make Omni Group software look presentable and behave politely." When my editor at Pearson said I could get a sneak ...

Omni Group's Ken Case on OmniFocus 2 and the origins of the app

by Steven Sande (Feb 1st, 2013)

One of the true joys of attending Macworld is getting to talk to some of the best developers in the world. Among the best of the best in the Apple world is Ken Case, CEO of The Omni Group. Today the company officially announced OmniFocus 2, the next generation of its flagship task management / ...

OmniFocus for Mac goes free until OmniFocus 2's debut

by Randy Nelson (Jan 16th, 2013)

The Omni Group has come up with a novel approach to dealing with the question of "should I buy OmniFocus now, or wait until I know what the next version is going to be like?" Since the company has already announced that the next major Mac version of its popular GTD-ready task manager will be ...

Omni Group teases OmniFocus 2, OmniPresence and more for 2013

by Randy Nelson (Dec 21st, 2012)

Those planning to make a New Year's resolution to (yet again!) get more organized should be glad to hear that Omni Group is planning a major update to its popular Mac-based task management software, OmniFocus, in 2013. The developer intends to take the wraps off OmniFocus 2 for Mac at an event ...

The Omni Group's Ken Case talks with TUAW at Macworld iWorld 2012

by Steven Sande (Jan 26th, 2012)

One of the most innovative and longstanding software development firms in the Apple ecosystem is The Omni Group. The company originally developed software for Steve Jobs's NeXT in the 1990's, created some of the first OS X software in the 2000s, and has gracefully made the transition to iOS with ...

OmniFocus gains TUAW Best of 2011 award for iPad productivity app

by Steven Sande (Jan 5th, 2012)

"What? I thought you already named a winner for the TUAW Best of 2011 in the iPad productivity app category!" Yes, yes we did. But there were some nomination and voting irregularities, not to mention that a number of TUAW readers let us know that our previously named winner had some serious ...

How to: Capturing iPad video with audio narration

by Erica Sadun (Apr 26th, 2011)

Recently, Mike Rose asked me to check out an ongoing discussion over at the Telestream forums to see if I could assist one of the posters. Mike knew that Steve Sande and I were working on testing out a variety of iPad-to-computer screen capture solutions. He thought I might be able to help out ...

Omni Group commits to Mac App Store development

by Sam Abuelsamid (Oct 24th, 2010)

It should come as no surprise to anyone that the Omni Group has jumped aboard the Mac App Store train. Omni has long been a popular creator of Mac applications and has done pretty well for itself with the iOS apps that it has already released, with more on the way. On the day after the Back to ...

Hands on with OmniGraffle for iPad

by Erica Sadun (Apr 14th, 2010)

Long a Mac desktop staple, OmniGraffle for OS X offers an interactive editor for laying out charts and diagrams. It's a useful tool for planners, managers, and designers. I have not been a serious user of the product, nor do I own the latest OS X version, but I have used the software enough to ...

Things coming to iPad, updates to 1.3

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Mar 17th, 2010)

At the end of his latest blog post, Cultured Code's Jürgen Schweizer revealed that the company is working on a version of Things for the iPad. The announcement isn't that surprising, especially given that The Omni Group announced at the beginning of February that its software suite, ...

OmniFocus for iPhone finally has reminders, but implementation is awful

by Jason Clarke (Jul 24th, 2009)

[Update] Ken Case comments below, addressing some of the concerns listed here. It looks like a future version of OmniFocus on the Mac will be able to directly update the OmniFocus reminders on the server, removing at least one of my complaints. Ken Case from The Omni Group has been twittering for ...

OmniFocus 1.6 checks off bugs and adds new features

by Brett Terpstra (Mar 13th, 2009)

The Omni Group just released OmniFocus 1.6, and it's a big, big update. Current users are going to be pleased, even if they don't bother to page through the extensive list of new features and fixes in the release notes. I've never said anything to the contrary, but this is proof that Omni is ...

OmniGraffle 5 shipping now

by Mat Lu (Mar 6th, 2008)

The Omni Group has announced that OmniGraffle 5 is final and available for download and purchase. OmniGraffle is a brilliant template-based diagramming application that makes it a snap to draw up a flow-chart or schematic. As we noted when the first beta of version 5 was released, the latest ...

OmniFocus goes 1.0

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 8th, 2008)

OmniFocus 1.0 represents a long-awaited addition to the GTD offerings on the Mac. It's a GTD-compatible task manager that has been in beta (or vaportrail, as they call it) for a while now and has gained an active community of users. Today's release puts Omni ahead of several other developers, which ...

TUAW Interview series with Wil Shipley: The Leopard delay - does it change anything?

by David Chartier (Apr 23rd, 2007)

In the first interview of this new mini-series, Brent Simmons of NewsGator / NetNewsWire shared some of his thoughts on Apple's delay of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard in light of the iPhone. For this second installment, Wil Shipley of Delicious Monster / Delicious Library steps up to the plate on feeling ...