OmniFocus 1.2 introduces support for multitasking features available in iOS 4.2, including support for sync completion when suspended in the background and the addition of local notifications so you can receive alerts for due tasks. In addition, it is now available in several more languages and makes numerous interface, performance, and stability fixes when running on iOS 4.2.

Multitasking

• OmniFocus for iPad is now a multitasking-aware application, allowing it to be quickly suspended and resumed on iOS 4.2.
• When running on iOS 4.2 or later, OmniFocus will complete an in-progress sync session when it is put into the background.
• When running on iOS 4.2 or later, if an automatic sync is due soon, OmniFocus will start a sync session as it enters the background.
• OmniFocus now uses local notifications to present due reminder alerts when running on iOS 4.2 or later, so you can receive alerts for due actions even if you're not syncing with a server. (Synced calendar alerts are still available for devices which are running earlier versions of the operating system.)

Localization

• OmniFocus is now available in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, and Simplified Chinese.

Maps

• Geolocation and business results are now displayed in your preferred language when possible.
• When running on iOS 4.2 or later, OmniFocus now uses the compass arrow icon for centering the map on the current location.
• Fixed a bug when running on iOS 4.2 which made it difficult to tap the Search button in the search HUD on the map.
• Locations can now be assigned to contexts without first clearing the existing location.
• Fixed a bug when running under iOS 4.2 that prevented the nearby context popover from appearing.

User Interface

• OmniFocus for iPhone now honors the synced preference to hide parent of an action when showing actions in action lists. This setting is available in the View menu for OmniFocus for the Mac.
• Projects and Contexts in the sidebar are now always displayed in bold.
• Fixed a bug in Review mode where modifying Inbox items could incorrectly result in projects in the sidebar appearing to have been marked reviewed.
• Fixed an alignment issue when using custom icons for perspectives.
• The overdue and due soon badge background colors now match the forecast segment's background when selected.
• Fixed a bug where the badge background in the forecast's future segment was drawn in the wrong color.
• Fixed a bug when running on iOS 4.2 where sidebar selection could be lost or flash upon updates to the main outline.

Editing

• The go to project/context button now appears on the side of the project/context button.
• The Action editor can now mark action groups as either parallel or sequential.
• When assigning an action's context or project, available choices are now sorted using localized, case-insensitive rules.
• Item editors and Quick Entry autosave in-progress edits when the application is put into the background.
• The item editor disables interaction events during keyboard animation to avoid errant taps.
• Fixed a regression when running iOS 4.2 that required a double tap to enter note editing.

Sync

• OmniFocus handles HTTP redirects more intelligently when replacing your local/remote database with a copy of your remote/local database, and when publishing .ics files.
• Fixed a workaround for some quirks in cPanel servers.
• Fixed some problems with syncing to servers with expired, self-signed, or otherwise exceptionable certificates.
• Tapping on an OmniFocus sync settings URL now automatically dismisses the Welcome Screen and performs a sync if appropriate.
• The sync credential alert now works correctly when running on iOS 4.2.

Stability & Performance

• Fixed crashes when attempting to send email from within OmniFocus on a device where no email accounts have been configured in Mail.
• Fixed an intermittent crash when switching to Forecast mode when no actions appeared under Today.
• Fixed an intermittent crash when using the Send to OmniFocus bookmarklet.
• Worked around a bug in iOS 4.2 which could cause the application to crash after using a contextual menu on a project or context.
• Opening the Settings screen is considerably faster for databases which contain a large number of zip files.

OmniFocus 1.1 improves general workflow with more practical due-date badges, a unified Edit button, a sidebar Home button, and smarter Map searching. It includes numerous interface improvements for both aesthetics and usability, and additional fixes which improve performance, stability, and reliability.

Forecast

• Fixed the underlying bug which caused Forecast view to stop updating after editing an action’s due date.

Badging improvements:

• If you have an overdue item on Today, the badge and background color is now correctly calculated rather than always using the due soon color.
• The badge color for days in the upcoming week now correctly reflects the “Due Soon means” setting.
• If an action’s due date precedes its start date, the due date takes precedence for purposes of forecast badging.
• The forecast badge color for the sidebar is now also chosen based on a worst-case scenario. (Previously, the badge was always the overdue color.)
• The forecast badge count is now the sum of all overdue and due soon items (based on the “Due Soon means” setting.)
• In Forecast mode, actions will display their due time rather than date when the date is implied.

Editing

• The main toolbar now contains an Edit button which enters universal edit mode for the outline and the sidebar. “Edit Sidebar” has been removed from the gear popover.
• Improved the user interface for setting the repeat value for projects and actions.
• Recent edits are no longer lost if the application was quit while an editor was open.
• Improved the behavior of the date editing controls:
  • The +1 day/week/month buttons now preserve the time.
  • Tapping Start or Due will now use today for the initial value if not previously set.
• The selected tab is now restored in the action and project editors.
• Attachments can be copied from the attachments list in the action and project editors.
• Images can be pasted into the attachments list in the action and project editors.
• Attachments added to via Quick Entry (at launch or while applying sync changes) can now be viewed without saving the action and reopening the editor.
• Modified the behavior of the project and context picker popovers to avoid unnecessarily dismissing the keyboard.
• Fixed a bug where sync changes were not automatically applied after closing an editor if a sync finished while the editor was open.

Outline, Navigation

• Added a Home button to sidebar.
• Added a note icon separator between the action title and note preview in action rows. Actions which have attachments also display an attachment(paperclip) icon.
• Parents assigned to a context appear within that context to be consistent with OmniFocus 1.8 for Mac. The view setting “Hide Parent Items in Context Mode” is synced from OmniFocus 1.8 for Mac and is honored in OmniFocus for iPad.
• Inherited flags are now visually distinct from non-inherited flags.
• When focusing on a container, the back button in the sidebar now correctly navigates back through the entire hierarchy.
• The full hierarchy for contexts is no longer displayed for each context in the sidebar list. The back button now correctly shows the parent context name as appropriate.
• Fixed a bug where certain completed actions didn’t correctly get the strike-through adornment.
• The disclosure button in the sidebar now glows when pressed. The tap area has also been enlarged.
• Fixed a bug where the sidebar disclosure button was sometimes incorrectly left in the pushed appearance.
• The Delete contextual menu items have been removed.
• Improved user interaction in outline rows:
  • Tapping in the gutter no longer invokes the item’s editor.
  • The tap area for checkboxes is larger.
  • A tap and hold on the checkbox no longer invokes the contextual menu for the row.
  • Corrected behavior of the outline view when in edit mode; the disclosure triangles are active (along with expand/collapse all), but you can no longer invoke the editor or bring up contextual menus.
  • Tap and hold on an action then scrolling now immediately removes the selection highlight from the row.

Review

• Fixed a bug in where the sidebar selection became out of sync with the project being displayed after sync changes had been applied.
• Fixed a bug in where the sidebar selection could become out of sync with the project being displayed after marking a project reviewed.
• Fixed a bug where using the Review contextual menu item would result in the wrong project being selected in the sidebar in Review mode.
• Fixed a bug where simultaneously changing the review interval and unit could result in a incorrect review interval being set on the project.
• Fixed a crash setting the repeat interval through quick entry while at startup. (The repeat interval cannot be set while the database is still loading, or sync changes are being applied.)
• Fixed a crash when incorporating sync changes while the Review Every popover was open.
• The review bar controls are now disabled when the outline is in edit/reorder mode.

Visual

• The undo button is no longer 1 pixel too low.
• Numerous improvements to action and project row layout in the outline.
• Fixed a cosmetic bug which resulted in a horizontal slice in the background in Review and Forecast modes.
• Improved the layout of buttons in the main toolbar.
• Restored the etched rows to the Sync Setup and first run configuration screens.
• Smoothed out the antialiasing on the lines on the Welcome to OmniFocus splash screen image.
• Item editors fade in and out as a whole, rather than having different elements fade at different rates (rather like the Cheshire Cat).

Map

• When performing a search in Maps mode, ambiguous results now show both nearby businesses and geographic locations in the search results popover.
• The list view in Maps mode now supports the standard toolbar items, including the view popover.
• The context inspector in Maps mode now correctly reflects the current view (next/available/remaining/all) filter.
• Improved explanatory text when dropping pins in Map mode.
• The Map/List view switcher in the Maps mode is now centered.
• Fixed a crash when dropping a pin in Map mode when WiFi (and 3G data) was disabled.
• Fixed a crash when returning to Maps mode after viewing the built-in help.

Perspectives

• In Perspectives mode, action’s grouped by date will display their time rather than date when the date is implied.
• Perspectives which group by start date now put the ‘no start date’ group at the top of the list, matching the OmniFocus for Mac.
• OmniFocus for iPad does not currently support deleting perspectives. Removed the inoperable delete button when in edit mode.

Miscellaneous

• OmniFocus for iPad now supports VGA mirroring.
• Fixed the underlying bug which prevented automatic Inbox cleanup.
• Fixed a bug which could result in incorrect undo grouping, such that tapping the undo button might undo more than just the previous edit.
• Fixed a bug which made it impossible to place the insertion point before the generated content when mailing an action.
• Fixed a bug where it was possible to have the sidebar and undo popovers visible on the screen at the same time.
• Shake to undo has been disabled. (Use the Undo button.)
• The database info text in Settings now updates after compacting the database.
• Using three finger zoom while the editor is open no longer causes multiple popovers to be displayed.

• Using Quick Entry while incorporating synced changes will no longer lose track of those new items when the sync happens to compact the database.
• Fixed a bug with synchronizing review dates for projects which were past their review date.
• Fixed a bug which could cause a blank screen when choosing to keep the device database on initial sync.
• Fixed a crash when choosing to open an attachment in another app.
• Fixed a crash encountered when dragging an action over its top-level folder while reordering.
• Fixed a crash encountered when deleting an attachment from Quick Entry.
• The sync button is now enabled when 3G is available and sync is configured.

Welcome to the initial release of OmniFocus for iPad. We invite you to read through the built-in Help to acquaint yourself with this new edition of OmniFocus; you can find it by tapping the Settings button in the toolbar, followed by the Help button. (The Settings button is the gear icon above the sidebar. If you're in portrait mode, tap the OmniFocus button to see the sidebar popover.)