OmniGroup has posted a video guide to OmniFocus for iPhone. If you are curious as to how location services works with OmniFocus, the video does a nice quick explanation. As a side note, Michaela’s voice reminds me of GLaDOS from Portal.
OmniFocus for iPhone video guide
July 10, 2008
On the iPhone App Store
July 10, 2008
I’ve upgraded my iPhone (EDGE) to v2 firmware and updated iTunes to 7.7 and then checked out the App Store. Thoughts so far on the firmware and the apps:
- Push email from MobileMe is great. I may have to forward mail from my usual address to the .Mac account.
- Multiple email deletion and moving is very nice. I use SpamAssassin on my mail server and have scripts to populate the corpus from my junk mail folder. This makes it so much easier to move emails into that folder.
- Push options for MobileMe have Mail, Calendar, and Bookmarks set On by default. Contacts were not.
- Contacts are now a separate icon on the iPhone screen.
- Password entry now shows the character you’ve typed for a brief moment to improve accuracy.
- OmniFocus for the iPhone is just awesome. I’ll post more on this one after playing with it for a while. It is a $19.99 application from the Store.
- The Facebook app won’t connect. My guess is that the Facebook servers won’t be “open” until tomorrow.
- Loopt is well worth the free download if you are into location-aware social networking apps. If you want to add me, drop me a line. All my current Loopt friends are in CA, which makes this less than useful right now.
- NetNewsWire is a free app which makes this a must-have for any RSS junky. I’ve been using the iPhone-optimized mobile site for NNW as it syncs status (read, unread, clipped) with the desktop client. It’s free – what more do you want?
- Pownce mobile client is not as good as I would like to see. The time to load seems a bit long.
There also seems to be an issue with sending a photo you have taken with the camera with the app – I can not attach text.According to the Twitterific dev, this is an Apple bug. - SplashID is an app I always bought on my Windows Mobile and Palm phones. I will have to see how this version compares. This app is $9.99
- Twitterific is one of the apps Apple keeps showcasing. It also allows posting of photos as well as geolocation. Free, if you don’t mind the ads.
- Twitterlator is another Twitter app. One cool thing about this app is an emergency feature that will tag location and then blast out a Tweet. Honestly, I would call 911, but I guess I am old-fashioned.
- WeatherBug – free, weather, maps.
- AOL Radio – another great application. If you are in a WiFi-covered area, and presumably in a 3G area (with some way to charge your battery later), this is a great way to listen to music not in your list. I use the desktop app to listen to the Baroque station and am glad to see it is on the mobile app as well. The broadcasts do have an occasional advertisement, but not at all intrusive. It is free, so download it already.
- AIM – does not seem to work for me. I am online, but my buddy list is empty. In any case, waiting for an app that will use Apple’s tickle servers will be easier on your battery.
- Apple Remote – control your Mac and TV with your iPhone. This one is wicked.
That is it so far – I am sure I will have more after this weekend.
OmniFocus sync
May 11, 2008
OmniFocus internal alpha has syncing to .Mac, WebDAV, and Disk. It also appears there is an iPhone sync – which would make tasking during meetings complete.
OmniFocus 1.0 released
January 8, 2008
From Ken Case, OmniGroup head honcho:
January 8 is finally here, and OmniFocus 1.0 has shipped! I’m forwarding a copy of the press release below (with its links to our web site and online store).
Today’s 1.0 release isn’t the end of our journey, of course–it’s simply our first non-beta release! We’ve already started planning out our future roadmap, thinking about how we can improve synchronization between multiple computers and about how we might be able to take advantage of the iPhone SDK when it’s released next month.
While 1.0 isn’t the end, it’s certainly a significant milestone. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the whole team here at Omni for all the long hours, and to thank all of our families for their patience and support!
I’d also like to thank you all for your participation in the beta process: you’ve all given us an incredible amount of feedback (27,458 messages sent to us directly, with another 13,194 messages posted to our forums) which has really helped us make OmniFocus a stronger product. (And, of course, a special thanks to the 13,590 of you who pre-ordered: your support and vote of confidence is really appreciated!)
Enjoy!
Ken
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Last days to pre-order OmniFocus
January 7, 2008
Highly recommended, especially if you are dabbling with GTD.
We’re closing in on the 1.0 release! Remember, if you pre-order before we release 1.0 this Tuesday (January 8), you’ll receive a 50% early-bird discount. (To the 11,765 of you who have already pre-ordered, thank you!)