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 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.