The company is also on the verge of launching OmniOutliner 4-after having rebuilt the outlining engine around Core Animation in OS X, the company feels there is a lot of potential for additional features. OmniFocus 2 was only part of what Omni decided to unveil in front of hundreds of onlookers at Macworld on Thursday night. When dealing with tasks in review mode, OmniFocus will also show calendar events from your iCal app if you want to see them all together. "One of the things that happens in task management tools is that you end up collecting a lot of projects and tasks, and it's easy to collect so much information that you're overloaded," Case pointed out. Review mode allows you to set a time for when you want to engage in specific tasks again-in a week, or a month, or twice a year, etc.-so you don't get overwhelmed with the tasks at hand. It also added a forecast mode as well as review modes (again borrowed from the iPad app). So what did Omni decide to do? For one, it unified all navigation within the app into a single sidebar. "Based on customer feedback, OmniFocus on the iPad is by far the most usable of all the apps," Case said.
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But when Omni paused its Mac software development in an effort to go all-in on the iPad, it learned many lessons about user interface. "We didn't really know our goals, we just wanted to help people get things done," Case said. When Omni built the first version of OmniFocus, Case pointed out, the company didn't really know where it was going. "With OmniFocus 2, you'll no longer need a degree in OmniFocus to use OmniFocus." "OmniFocus had a lot of power users, but it was not very approachable and awkward to navigate," Case told Ars during the conference. But the software is still in progress-Case says the company plans to take feedback from users in order to refine the UI before its final release, which he hopes to happen in the first half of this year.Ĭase is the first to admit that OmniFocus 1 for Mac, while popular, was not the most user-friendly of software packages.
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The highly anticipated update to OmniFocus sports a new look, borrowing design elements and features from OmniFocus for the iPad. Now, in 2013, CEO Ken Case has declared it's time to get back to the Mac, unveiling the company's plans to release OmniFocus 2 for the Mac on Thursday at Macworld|iWorld. SAN FRANCISCO, CA-Three years ago, the Omni Group decided to go " iPad or bust," delaying its Mac software releases in order to prioritize the iPad as a new platform for the company's well-loved software.
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