OmniFocus for Mac 3.6

March 5, 2020

Requires macOS 10.14

OmniFocus 3.6 for iOS and Mac add support for “floating” time zones, meaning that items will become due or available at the same local time no matter where you are in the world.

  • Database Migration — Shortly after all of your devices sync using OmniFocus 3.6, you’ll be prompted to migrate to the latest database format that supports floating time zones.
  • Floating Time Zones — Once your database has been migrated, all new items will be created with “floating” time zones, meaning that they will become due or available at the same local time no matter where you are in the world. Uncheck “Use floating time zone” in the Dates Inspector for items where you want the local due and defer times to change when you travel (the old behavior).
  • TaskPaper — Added a @time-zone parameter with values floating and current.
  • Clipping — Fixed a problem where the default font wasn’t used for the original message link when clipping from Mail.
  • Columns — Fixed a problem in the Columns layout where some columns could overlap after relaunching OmniFocus.
  • Crash — Fixed a crash in Forecast.
  • Deleted Items — Addressed a number of problems that could result in a “Resurrection Error” message.
  • Due Soon — Fixed a problem where changes to the "Due Soon” means: preference wouldn’t take effect.
  • Sync — Fixed a problem where using OmniFocus for the Web could prevent a database migration from completing.
  • TaskPaper — Fixed a problem where TaskPaper items with Dropped status would pass that status along to pasted siblings.
  • Today — Fixed a problem where the Today widget wouldn’t display items in action groups in the Inbox.
  • AppleScript — Added support for reading and writing the floating time zone setting of tasks via should use floating time zone.
  • Database Migration — Made a number of improvements to the database migration flow.
  • Documentation — Updated the reference manual.
  • Sync — OmniFocus no longer waits for multiple edits when pushing changes to the server, which should result in sync feeling faster in situations when you’re working on multiple devices at once.
  • Smaller Fixes and Improvements — Thanks for sending in feedback!

OmniFocus for Mac 3.5.1

February 14, 2020

Requires macOS 10.14

  • Crash — Fixed a crash switching a perspective from grouping Entire Projects to Individual Actions.
  • Localizations — Fixed missing localizations in OmniFocus 3.5.
  • Outline — Fixed a problem that could result in a hang when changing outline layouts or resizing a window.
  • Outline — Fixed a problem where the “…” placeholder indicating tag truncation wouldn’t draw.
  • Preferences — Fixed a problem where Today Widget includes was reset whenever the database cache was rebuilt.

OmniFocus for Mac 3.5

February 11, 2020

Requires macOS 10.14

OmniFocus 3.5 for Mac

This release requires macOS 10.14.

  • AppleScript — The Forecast sidebar is now scriptable via forecast sidebar tree and forecast day with properties name, empty (boolean), and badge count.
  • Crash — Fixed a crash inspecting deleted items.
  • Crashes — Fixed several of our most common crashes in OmniFocus 3.4.x
  • Due Soon — Fixed a condition where tasks might not be styled as Due Soon until after they had been completed and then uncompleted.
  • Forecast — Fixed a problem where the Forecast outline did not update correctly when passing day boundaries.
  • OmniFocus 2 — Fixed a problem where OmniFocus 3 would refuse to sync with and migrate some OmniFocus 2 databases.
  • Perpectives — Fixed a problem where after completing a repeating item, the next instance would appear in custom perspectives filtered to Available, even if deferred (and thus unavailable).
  • Perspectives — Fixed a problem where nested Inbox items would appear out of order in custom perspectives which group and sort entire projects.
  • Perspectives — Fixed a problem where perspectives which grouped and sorted entire projects by due date would use the dates of dropped children for sorting.
  • Perspectives — Fixed a problem with filtering and children of due and/or flagged items in perspectives that group and sort entire projects.
  • Perspectives — Improved the perspective upgrade process so that it’s more obvious how to affect sidebar selection in the resulting perspective.
  • Quick Entry — The title field is now made active when opening Quick Entry via URL.
  • Sidebar — Fixed a problem where in the Projects perspective, changing sidebar project selection would unexpectedly change the outline sort order of projects within their folders.
  • Today — Fixed a problem where available actions would sometimes be styled as blocked.
  • Today — The Today Widget now honors “Tag Order” sorting for custom perspectives.
  • Localizations — Updated localized help.
  • Smaller Fixes and Improvements — Thanks for sending in your feedback!

OmniFocus for Mac 3.4.6

January 17, 2020

Requires macOS 10.13

OmniFocus 3.4.6 is a minor update focused on bug fixes.

  • Crash — Fixed a crash related to cleaning up newly-created items in the sidebar.
  • Crash — Fixed a crash related to leaving the Tags field with uncommitted changes.
  • Deleted Items — Fixed a problem that could result in a message like “Error encountered: Update of object which could not be resurrected Task…”

OmniFocus for Mac 3.4.5

December 18, 2019

Requires macOS 10.13

  • AppleScript — Renamed the enumeration values for project status to resolve a terminology conflict which prevented you from writing a whose clause of the form every project whose status is dropped status.
  • Crash — Fixed a crash related to deleting items in the outline.
  • Dropped Items — Fixed a problem where dropped items would be counted in Due and Due Soon counts for tags.
  • Dropped Projects — Fixed a problem where projects marked dropped in versions of OmniFocus earlier than 3.4 for Mac (3.3 for iOS) didn’t get the correct status circle appearance.
  • Perspectives — Fixed a problem with tag ordering in perspectives grouped by Tags (Combined).
  • Tags — Fixed a problem with the Add Tag (+) button in the outline.
  • Today — Fixed a problem where the Today Widget didn’t always display its contents correctly.
  • Localizations — Updated localizations, including for OmniFocus Help.