Perhaps OmniFocus 4 will be released as an absolutely stunning app that's a pleasure to use. Maybe Apple will grow bored with developing Reminders and never improve it over today's state, which is good but far from perfect. I still adore OmniFocus and I can imagine a world where I'd switch back. I'm learning that something simple and fun to use is good enough for me. Again, my life isn't so complex that I need an extremely powerful tool to organize it. I still miss the advanced features I mentioned earlier, but not enough to be tempted to go back. Over the last couple of months, it's been fine. I've fully committed to a life managed by what used to look like a toy to me.
And then I did the previously unthinkable: I deleted OF from my iPhone and iPad. I'd been at inbox zero many times, but never at actions zero in over a decade of using OmniFocus. One day I noticed that there weren't many actions left in OF anymore, and I sat down to move over the few stragglers. Since beginning that test, I found myself moving more actions from OmniFocus to Reminders.
Meanwhile, Apple's own Reminders app had started life as a severely underpowered afterthought compared to OmniFocus, Things, and other powerhouses. I realized that my own needs weren't that incredibly complex and became curious whether maybe another app would be able to tell me to schedule a haircut. Its industrial grade user interface would be instantly familiar to a user from 2008, with a hundred available options to tweak every last little detail. Yet sometimes even power users want something simple, and although OmniFocus scales up wonderfully, it never scaled down. It was and is a brilliant product for power users. Sure, The Omni Group had done a tremendous amount of behind-the-scenes work over the years. OF 4 looked a lot like OF 3, which was pretty similar to OF 2, which closely resembled OF 1. This time, though, something was different. When OmniFocus 3 came out, I did the same.Īnd when the OmniFocus 4 pre-beta became available for iOS, I installed it immediately.
Omnifocus 4 upgrade#
When OmniFocus 2 came out, I bought an upgrade on launch day.
When I later got an iPad, I gulped at the price and then bought OF for it, too. OmniFocus was one of the earliest purchases for my first iPhone. With my new OF/GTD system, I started taming that and getting my life in order. I'd been a disorganized mess who was constantly forgetting what I was supposed to be doing, and was often paralyzed when faced with too many choices of what I could be working on next. It's fair to say that OmniFocus changed my life.
Omnifocus 4 trial#
I bought OF after a short trial period and I was off to the races.
Omnifocus 4 mac os#
However, I had come to Mac OS after years on a Linux desktop and I knew that looks weren't everything. Then, as now, Things was the prettier choice. At the time, on that OS, for Serious Users, that meant adopting either Things or OmniFocus. I'd recently learned about Getting Things Done (aka GTD) and wanted to try that on my new computer. Years after she'd been happily using an iMac G4, a family friend asked if I'd like a bargain deal on their unused eMac. My wife's been a Mac user much longer than I have.
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