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 iOS 3.5

February 11, 2020

Requires iOS 13, watchOS 4

OmniFocus 3.5 adds two new Shortcut actions.

  • Shortcuts — Added two new Shortcut actions, Add Item and Add TaskPaper, which duplicate the functionality of actions that have been built into Shortcuts since its introduction, but are maintained by Omni.
  • Add Item Shortcut Action — This action takes text from input and sets the item’s name, and allows choosing a target project (or Inbox) and setting various metadata. It returns the resulting OmniFocus item, which you can pass to Show in OmniFocus or otherwise continue your workflow.
  • Add TaskPaper Shortcut Action — This action takes TaskPaper-formatted text input and adds to a target specified anywhere in the Inbox or Projects hierarchy. It returns an array of the resulting OmniFocus items. If you add nested items using this action, only the top-level items are returned.
  • Siri — Siri can now show completed tasks in OmniFocus using the built-in intent: “Show me my completed tasks using OmniFocus”.
  • Background Activity — Fixed a condition that could cause a “Threading Policy Violation” when OmniFocus was foregrounded.
  • Calendar — Worked around a bug in Calendar that would result in a crash when dragging in new items from OmniFocus.
  • Completed Perspective — Fixed a problem grouping items that were completed by completing their parent.
  • Crash — Fixed a crash acting on an OmniFocus notification with some kinds of content already visible in OmniFocus.
  • Crash — Fixed a crash deleting items.
  • Crash — Fixed a crash related to sync preferences.
  • Crash — Fixed a crash switching perspectives while editing the note of an item that no longer matches the current perspective.
  • Crash — Fixed a crash when pressing return on external keyboard quickly after quick entry.
  • Crashes — Fixed several of our more common crashes in OmniFocus 3.4.x.
  • Drag and Drop — Fixed a problem where selection highlight would disappear after a drag and drop in a long list of items.
  • Drag and Drop — Improved drag and drop targeting in situations where indentation isn’t allowed.
  • Image Attachments — Fixed several problems with the image attachment viewer.
  • Inspector — Fixed a problem where the date picker rows in the inspector could stay expanded when changing selection, resulting in unintended date assignment.
  • Inspector — Fixed a problem where the note tab icon wouldn’t reflect the state of the selected item.
  • New Items — Fixed problems with metadata being lost on save when creating new items in compact.
  • Notifications — Fixed a problem where the relevant item wasn’t scrolled into view when acting on a notification.
  • Outline — Fixed a problem where the metadata fields under action titles and their separator dots could sometimes overlap.
  • Outline — Fixed a problem where the outline wouldn’t scroll to keep the selected item in view when changing selection with the buttons in the inspector or an external keyboard.
  • Perspective — Fixed a problem where you could save a new perspective before adding a title.
  • Perspectives — Fixed a crash when editing a new perspective.
  • 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.
  • Share Extension — Fixed a problem where attachments sent via the Share extension would be lost when multiple external items were imported.
  • Share Extension — Fixed problems where you couldn’t assign a tag or project whose name was duplicated elsewhere in your database.
  • Summary — Fixed a problem where assigning a project to an action would “resurrect” a date which you cleared previously.
  • Sync — Fixed a problem that would result in a “Reference of object which could not be resurrected TaskToTag” error message.
  • URLs — Fixed a problem opening links to tags.
  • URLs — Fixed a problem where tapping an omnifocus:///search URL would populate the search field, but not trigger the search.
  • URLs — Fixed a problem where urls that opened tasks wouldn’t work from notes in some inspector presentations.
  • URLs — Fixed an extra animation problem with omnifocus:///paste URLs.
  • Show in OmniFocus — In this Shortcuts action, folders are now sorted in the same order as they are in your database.
  • Smaller Fixes and Improvements — Thanks for sending in 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 iOS 3.4.3

January 13, 2020

Requires iOS 13, watchOS 4

OmniFocus 3.4.3 is a minor update focused on bug fixes.

  • Background Activity — Fixed a condition that could cause a “Threading Policy Violation” when OmniFocus was foregrounded.
  • Crash — Fixed a crash bringing OmniFocus to the foreground.
  • Crash — Fixed a crash related to assigning tags.
  • Crash — Fixed another of our most frequent crashes.
  • Deleted Items — Fixed a problem that could result in a message like “Error encountered: Update of object which could not be resurrected Task…”
  • First Launch — Fixed a problem with localized subtitles in the first-launch video.
  • Sidebar — Fixed a problem where sidebar visibility would sometimes be forgotten when OmniFocus was backgrounded on iPadOS.

OmniFocus for iOS 3.4.2

December 19, 2019

Requires iOS 13, watchOS 4

OmniFocus 3.4.2 is a minor update focused on bug fixes.

  • Crash — Fixed a crash on launch.
  • Forecast — Fixed a problem where the bottom toolbar wouldn’t update promptly.
  • Inbox — Fixed a problem where dragging the New Inbox Item to create a “grandchild” in an existing action group would corrupt the existing hierarchy.
  • Inspector — Fixed a problem with animation.
  • Today — Fixed a problem where the New Inbox Item button wouldn’t appear in some cases.
  • Undo — Fixed a problem with the Undo popover’s tint color. Fixed a problem using shake to undo while editing a note.
  • URL Scheme — Fixed a problem where omnifocus:// urls for containers would open the inspector instead of the outline view.
  • Clean Database — This operation now includes dropped items.
  • In-App Purchase — You can now make a standalone purchase while a subscription is active, after confirming that’s really what you want to do. Fixed problems with the purchase options screen.
  • Smaller Fixes and Improvements — Thanks for sending in feedback!