Omnifocus Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

TUAW Best of 2011: Vote for the best iPhone productivity app

by Steven Sande (Dec 22nd, 2011)

The nominations are in, and the poll is ready to go! The TUAW Best of 2011 awards are all about you -- the readers -- and what you think is the cream of the crop of Apple or third-party products and software. To vote, select one entry from the top nominations made by readers. We'll be announcing ...

Best of 2011 Nominations: Mac productivity apps

by Steven Sande (Dec 8th, 2011)

During December and January, The Unofficial Apple Weblog is soliciting your nominations and votes for the best products for Mac, iPhone/iPod touch, and iPad. We'll start with nominations in a category, and then tally your votes for the top-nominated products a few days later. The winner in each ...

OmniFocus gets iOS 5 location-based reminders

by Michael Grothaus (Oct 12th, 2011)

OmniFocus has updated its popular OmniFocus for iPhone and OmniFocus for iPad apps. The updates bring iOS 5 compatibility and the usual bug fixes, but they also bring a very cool new feature OmniFocus users are sure to love: Location Reminders. Using iOS 5′s geo-fencing APIs, both the ...

OmniFocus 1.3 for iPad updates Forecast Mode

by Mike Schramm (May 18th, 2011)

Task management app OmniFocus for iPad has been updated to version 1.3, and the new version is gaining some rave reviews for all of its new features over on the official forums. Most notably, the new version updates the app's Forecast Mode, which streamlines all of your calendar events and ...

Sparrow gets AppleScript support, immediately put to use with OmniFocus

by Steven Sande (Feb 15th, 2011)

Sparrow, the sleek new email client for Mac OS X, was updated yesterday to improve speed, fix some minor bugs and add some limited AppleScript support. While the changes might not be apparent to many Sparrow users, they were apparently an inspiration to Don Southard, who immediately figured out a ...

The best Mac and iOS apps I used in 2010

by TJ Luoma (Dec 27th, 2010)

Following up on my article about the best Mac apps I used in 2010, here are some of the best hybrid "Mac and iOS apps" I used in 2010. This wasn't an attempt to come up with a specific number, just the results of some careful reflection. You may wonder why some apps appear on this list instead of ...

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 ...

First look: OmniFocus for iPad

by Erica Sadun (Jul 30th, 2010)

Copyright 2010 The Omni Group. All rights reserved. Used with permission. With OmniFocus for iPad just now hitting the App Store, I haven't yet had as much time as I would like to use the application to its fullest potential. My initial interaction has, however, been positive. Costing a rather ...

First Look: Taska for iPad and iPhone

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 14th, 2010)

I'm by no means a power GTD user, but like a lot of you I am juggling different projects and need to find a way to organize them. When I was younger, I carried around a paper planner, but now I have an iPhone and an iPad in addition to my desktop Mac. The iPad on its own makes an awesome replacement ...

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, ...

Postbox adds Things and OmniFocus support

by Brett Terpstra (Mar 9th, 2010)

The first time I heard about Postbox, it was a relatively new email client for the Mac. Based on the details in the first announcement and my trial run, I was very intrigued. I recall telling the rest of TUAW that -- if its stated goals were achieved -- it had the potential to take over my Mail.app ...

Omni Group bringing the Omni apps to the iPad

by Aron Trimble (Feb 2nd, 2010)

Famed OmniFocus developer The Omni Group has given a brief peak at their development roadmap. The Mac Observer reports that Omni will release OmniFocus, OmniPlan, OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner and OmniGraphSketcher for the iPad. The Omni Group is pretty excited about what all the iPad has to offer ...

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 ...

My favorite iPhone apps: Jason's picks

by Jason Clarke (Aug 28th, 2008)

Picking my favorite iPhone apps was pretty straightforward. I went with three apps that save me time. The first one wows me because using it sort of feels like magic, and the other two are great mobile companion applications to wonderful Mac-based programs. Shazam [iTunes link] Free When I say ...