Comments on: Omnifocus Review

By: Chandler Review : Productivity501

Chandler Review : Productivity501 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:01:56 +0000

[...] management product called Chandler. Chandler is based on some of the principles of GTD, much like OmniFocus. However, Chandler also shares some characteristics with Evernote, such as the fact that both [...]

By: Chinarut

Chinarut — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:58:12 +0000

I came to OmniFocus primarily for its ability to implement GTD and while still a novelty to some degree, location-dependent contexts on my iPhone. It’s been quite a ride being an early adopter and really have to give the Omnigroup team props up for tweaking the performance of these apps over the past year.

Where most people fall off the bandwagon in many systems is the “weekly review” and really glad the most recent version of OmniFocus (1.6) contains some automation to make reviewing all your projects a snap!

I concur with the amount of customization available – it makes OF quite the flexible tool. My biggest gripe is I can’t tag my projects. I’d like to see certain projects show up in more than one “folder” – akin to labels in gmail. This is the only place I feel Things has a heads up keeping in mind its been at least 9 months since I gave Things a whirl!

Look forward to furthered development of a web interface and tighter integrations with both email and calendar along the lines of the original Outlook GTD Add-in.

my 2 cents!

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:24:54 +0000

@ Everyone- Thanks for all of your kind words. Your input is greatly appreciated!

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:18:17 +0000

@ Sam- Thanks for the ideas for new articles! I’ll certainly keep them in mind. : )

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:13:06 +0000

@ Gary- Thanks for the tip! I’ll try to keep that in mind for the next article I write.

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:10:37 +0000

@ infmom- I apologize that I didn’t specify the operating system or hardware requirements for this software. To clarify a bit, I use the Omnifocus software frequently on a venerable PowerBook G4. : )
The PowerBook is running Mac OS X 10.5 and has a processing speed of 1.67 Ghz. The program runs very smoothly and efficiently with these components.
As for the competence of the PowerBook, it basically has handled everything I have thrown at it with regard to modern software, which has been a lot, to say the very least. This may not always be the case, but it does work just fine with Omnifocus for me.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:04:59 +0000

Hi Anna, maybe an alternative for the Mac and Windows users, thta lacks the polish but is free: http://lis.to
Being a Mac-user myself I evaluated OmniFocus and Things and it simply didn’t click. But maybe its just me.

lis.to ist cross-platform, open-source, free and will be available for iPhone in a few weeks. Give it a try!

By: GTD and Productivity Links - 24th August 2008 | Did I Get Things Done? - Getting Things Done GTD with Personal Development and Motivation for Success

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:59:08 +0000

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By: Andrew Mason

Andrew Mason — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:24:16 +0000

Great review. I love and use OmniFocus as part of my GTD system. I use it with the iPhone app and are getting great results from it.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:15:27 +0000

Nice review, and has me wanting to learn more…but…no hyperlink to the Omnifocus developer’s site? Guess I can Google to find it, but suggest a link in the review would be easier on the reader.

By: Bensan George

Bensan George — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:00:21 +0000

Great review! Another great productivity tool on the mac is Things. It follows the Getting Things Done workflow and I found it to be a lot friendlier to use than Omnifocus. They recently came out with a mobile version of Things for the iPhone. Neat stuff! check them out. http://culturedcode.com/things/

By: infmom

infmom — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:52:03 +0000

A couple of things should have been mentioned. The software is for Macs only, as far as I can tell from the website, and the system requirements for running it are either not mentioned or not easy to locate. As the owner of a geriatric Powerbook, the system requirements (and OS requirements, if any) are of critical importance.

Oh, and it costs $80.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:32:59 +0000

Hi Anna,

Great review of OmniFocus – very nicely written and to the point.

I was wondering whether you were planning a follow-up post covering advanced features or workflows (phone – Jott – email – Mail.app/Entourage – OmniFocus inbox, for example), Applescripts that automate input/output of tasks (upload to Remember the Milk, for example), or the idea of Perspectives?