OmniFocus for Mac 2.5

March 28, 2016

Requires OS X 10.10

OmniFocus 2.5 for Mac adds a Style preference pane that lets you customize OmniFocus visually.

  • Styles — Added a Style Preference Pane, where you can choose between built-in font and color collections or import and export your own.
  • Crash Recovery — If the app was launched with the Shift key held, we now reset style preferences to their default values so you can work around launch crashes triggered by bad style customizations.
  • Sync — Added a quiescence timer so that we can block integrating sync changes while you are actively typing (these integrations could cause inadvertent deletion, especially in notes and titles).
  • Dates — Inherited dates are now italicized to differentiate them from explicitly-set dates.
  • Outline View — The outline now always reclaims space after a selection change that changes row heights.
  • Switching Apps — We now commit partial edits when switching to another application with an outline or inspector field active.
  • Clippings — Updated the OmniPlan Clipping handler to work with OmniPlan 3.
  • Project Order — Fixed a long-standing bug where the order of Projects would get re-arranged temporarily. This also sometimes affected re-ordering the sidebar manually.
  • Sync Setup — We now present a helpful error when an account can’t be found, rather than a rather un-helpful one.
  • Inspector — Inspector text fields (including Note) now retain focus when switching between applications.
  • Search — The Go to Search Field menu item no longer stops working after editing the toolbar.
  • TextExpander — Fill-in Snippets once again work in the Sidebar.
  • Crash — Fixed a crash opening an image attachment that was pasted from OmniGraffle.
  • Sidebar Badges — Fixed a problem with sidebar badges when transitioning from one digit to two (or vice versa) being displayed in the badge.
  • Push — Fixed a bug where “Initializing” would show indefinitely after enabling push.
  • Calendar Apps — When clicking “View in Calendar”, if Fantastical or BusyCal is set as your default calendar app, the day containing the event being inspected will be opened in that application instead of Apple Calendar.
  • Type-Ahead Selection — Type-ahead selection has been disabled to avoid some situations where it could result in inadvertent deletion of items.
  • Outlining Keyboard Shortcuts — Bare reorganize right ‘r’ in the sidebar outline is now disabled if the operation would cause the item’s type to be converted and disappear from the sidebar.
  • Localizations — Localized some previously-un-localized items. Fixed a bug in Chinese where the review intervals in Dates & Times Preferences use the same character for days, weeks, and months. More work remains.
  • Documentation — Updated the In-App Help.

OmniFocus for Mac 2.4.2

February 1, 2016

Requires OS X 10.10

OmniFocus 2.4.2 — January 29, 2016

OmniFocus 2.4.2 is focused on stability.

  • AppleScript — Fixed a bug where setting duration to “missing value” applied a value of zero minutes instead.
  • Crash — Fixed a crash switching sidebar selection with rows selected in the outline and text folding enabled.
  • Crash — Fixed a crash having to do with repeating events imported from Reminders
  • Crash — Fixed a crash sorting in Contexts sidebar with “No Context” selected.

OmniFocus for Mac 2.4.1

January 19, 2016

Requires OS X 10.10

OmniFocus 2.4.1 is focused on stability:

  • Crash — Fixed a crash closing any full-screen window.
  • Crash in Notes — Fixed a crash having to do with notes.
  • Mac App Store Crash — Fixed a crash upgrading to Pro in the Mac App Store version of OmniFocus.

OmniFocus for Mac 2.4

December 7, 2015

Requires OS X 10.10

OmniFocus 2.4 adds a new option for “Due Soon” and full push-triggered syncing that was previously only available in OmniFocus on iOS devices.

  • Due Soon — Due Soon includes a new option—"Today"—which includes only items due before midnight. Due Soon options expressed in “days” also use midnight as a boundary instead of multiples of 24 hours. So, “Due Soon is in the next 2 days” includes items due before midnight tomorrow. The “24 Hours” option remains unchanged, but since the overwhelming majority of customers we heard from were looking for it to function as “Today”, we have made the latter the default and you’ll need to re-select “24 Hours” if you prefer to not use midnight as a boundary.
  • Push-triggered Sync — We’ve been using silent push notifications to trigger syncs on iOS since version 2.2.1, and now we’ve expanded to include triggering syncs on the Mac. As of these builds, your iOS device running OmniFocus 2.6 or later should automatically tell OmniFocus for Mac to sync shortly after you make a change. Because OmniFocus also triggers syncs via local network notifications, you might not see “Push” very often in the sync logs on your Mac if you tend to keep your iOS device connected to the same Wi-Fi network as your Mac. You’ll find all the push-related settings in Synchronization Preferences > Show Sync Details…. For an updated explanation of how of push-triggered sync works, check out this article.
  • Delete in Quick Entry — Backspace/delete in an empty title in Quick Entry now deletes the item (as it does in the main window).
  • Emoji — Fixed a bug where Emoji would disappear from Action Titles if certain other characters were also present.
  • Note Icons — We changed to a note indicator and disclosure button with less-ambiguous states. Presence of a note is now indicated by a filled icon (vs hollow), and expansion of note is indicated by whether you see a note or not(!).
  • Due Soon and Unavailable — We now follow iOS color and urgency rules for items that are due soon but unavailable: they get yellow dates and gray status circles.
  • http User Agent — Updated our user agent strings to include the marketing version in addition to bundle version.
  • Locking Errors — Made it much easier to quit OmniFocus in the case where multiple copies of the app are open.
  • Crash in Help — Fixed a crash closing a full-screen help window.
  • Localizations — Updated localizations — there still may be some pieces missing, including Documentation.
  • Note Button in Rows — Increased the clickable area of this button beyond the image itself.
  • Crashes in Attachments — Fixed crashes relating to deleting attachments.
  • Sidebar Border — Restored the missing border between tabs and sidebar.
  • Smaller Fixes and Improvements — Thanks for reporting any issues you encounter!

OmniFocus for Mac 2.3.1

November 4, 2015

Requires OS X 10.10

OmniFocus 2.3.1 — November 3, 2015

OmniFocus 2.3.1 for Mac fixes bugs.

  • Drag and Drop — Dragging an action to the last position in a project no longer creates a new project (or an action group).
  • Sync — Sync is no longer triggered immediately on new item creation, which resulted in ‘Untitled Item’ rows on other synced devices.
  • Duplicate — Duplicate now commits editing before duplicating items.
  • Crash in Full-Screen — Fixed a crash closing a full-screen window with an edited note.
  • Crash in Settings — Fixed a crash viewing the sync log.
  • Crash in Chinese — Typing “off” with a Chinese Keyboard no longer causes OmniFocus to crash.
  • View Options — Fixed problems with text wrapping and clipping in some localizations.
  • Tab Highlights — These are no longer drawn upside-down.
  • Preferences — Prevented [SHORT] and [LONG] from appearing next to some as yet un-localized strings.