OmniFocus for iPad 1.3

May 18, 2011

OmniFocus for iPad 1.3 updates Forecast Mode: Never spread yourself too thin. Enable Calendar integration to see your hard landscape events alongside your overdue and due soon OmniFocus actions. Use the View options menu to show your items with a start date. Reschedule your projects and actions—with just a tap or two—to keep your days balanced.

This update also includes full screen note viewing and editing, improved support for screen mirroring, and a number of other user interface and workflow improvements.

Forecast

  • Forecast mode now integrates calendar events into a convenient timeline. Use the View options menu to configure which calendars appear on the timeline, and the range of hours for which events are displayed. (This feature requires iOS 4.0 or later.)
  • Forecast mode now includes an additional section for viewing items starting on the days of the upcoming week. Use the View options menu to hide or show this section.
  • Tapping “View” on a Due Reminder alert now takes you to the Forecast screen, showing you all items which have become overdue at once.

Editing

  • The Note section of the Editor now includes an expand button. Tap on the expand button to view or edit your notes full screen.
  • When searching in the Project and Context pickers, Smart Match terms are underlined in the search results.
  • When assigning a Project or Context to an Action, search results are now presented in Library order rather than alphabetically.

Workflow

  • The application’s badge counts the union of overdue, due soon, and flagged items. Items that are both flagged and overdue or due soon are no longer counted twice.
  • Folders’ remaining count incorrectly included Single-Action Lists.
  • Dropped Contexts are only visible in the Context move popover when the current View options are set to All.
  • Dropped Folders are only visible in the Project move popover when the current View options are set to All.
  • Errors from automatic sync sessions no longer interrupt you with an alert. Instead, the Sync button is badged. Tapping the Sync button will display the error alert and offer to retry the sync.

User Interface

  • OmniFocus takes advantage of hardware screen mirroring when available.
  • When mirroring your iPad 2 on a secondary display, OmniFocus now shows your gestures—taps, pinches, swipes, and all—so that your viewers can follow along.
  • Untitled items are now correctly represented in Project, Action, and Context lists.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause incorrect sorting of a Perspective’s actions when grouped by a date.

Inbox

  • The Inbox badge count no longer includes completed items.
  • Items blocked by a future start date are once again excluded from the Inbox badge count.
  • Paste and New Action are now available from the contextual menu for the Inbox header.
  • Fixed a bug which prevented you from moving an item to the top of the Inbox.

Review

  • Projects within the Review sidebar are sorted in Library order.
  • Fixed a bug where launching OmniFocus into Review mode with the Inbox selected incorrectly resulted in an empty list of projects needing review.
  • When there are no remaining Projects requiring review, the plus button no longer gives multiple choices for creating an Inbox item.

Stability

  • Fixed a crash which could occur when entering the background and using Bonjour syncing.
  • Fixed a rare problem which could lead to a crash if OmniFocus received a memory warning while in landscape orientation.
  • Fixed a regression where Email Debug Info (to the OmniFocus support ninjas) was inappropriately using the in-app mail client.

OmniFocus for Mac 1.9

April 12, 2011

OmniFocus 1.9 for Mac includes direct configuration for the Omni Sync Server, improves badge counts, and provides quicker access to Perspectives.

 

Workflow Improvements

  • Remaining items in context mode now include items from pending projects, not just active projects.
  • The Inbox count now includes Inbox items which are blocked by a future start date.

Interface

  • The list of contexts in the Dock menu and the menu bar status item have been replaced with a list of Perspectives.
    • This works the same as the Perspectives menu in the application; the Perspective will open in a new window based on the stored setting; this can be reversed by holding down the Option key.
    • The built-in Inbox, Flagged, and Due built-in perspectives have badge counts in the global status menu.
  • The user interface shortcuts for focusing have been changed.
    • Double-click to Focus now requires that the option key be pressed when Double-Clicking.
    • In Planning mode, the contextual menu for Projects and Actions has two commands:
      • Focus
      • Focus in New Window
    • In Context mode, the contextual menu for Actions has a “Focus in New Window” command.
  • “Focus in New Window” is equivalent to Option-Double-Clicking.
  • Improved the appearance of the highlight state of the menu bar status item.
  • Context and Project drop down menus are no longer displayed off-screen when the associated row is near the bottom of the screen.
  • Typing in the date field in the “Move Old Data to Archive” sheet updates the number of items which will be archived live as you type. (Previously, the summary was only updated after pressing Return or Tab to confirm the date, which could result in an unexpected number of items being archived.)
  • Perspective keyboard shortcuts are now required to include the Command or Control key. (Function keys are still allowed as keyboard shortcuts without any modifier keys.)
  • Fixed a bug where a newly assigned keyboard shortcut for a Perspective might not have worked until the Perspectives menu was shown or OmniFocus was relaunched.
  • If a Perspective has a keyboard shortcut assigned to it that includes the Option key, the Option key doesn‘t reverse the “Always open in a new window” setting when selecting the Perspective via the keyboard shortcut.

Badge Counts

  • The Dock and Menubar badges now work like they do in the iPhone and iPad edition of the application.
    • The badge count totals your Overdue, Due Soon, and Flagged items. By default, OmniFocus totals your Due Soon and Overdue items, but not your Flagged items. If you'd like to include or exclude any of these, you can change the settings in the Data Preferences.
    • The badge color is chosen based on the most urgent item present.
  • The Dock and Menubar badges now sum due soon and overdue items. If there are overdue items, the badge will be drawn in the overdue color. Otherwise, the due soon color is used.
  • Sidebar counts (in both Planning and Context mode) are now the sum of Overdue and Due Soon items.
  • The Inbox counter is the sum of Overdue and Due Soon items. If there are no Overdue or Due Soon items, the Inbox counter is the number of items remaining in the Inbox.
  • Fixed a bug where due soon and overdue count for “No Context” in the menu status item didn’t honor the “Hide Parents Items in Context Mode” setting.
  • Fixed a bug where the count and badge color for the “No Context” group in Context mode would not update correctly when actions transitioned from due soon to overdue status.

Preferences

  • Added an Omni Sync option to the Sync Preferences. (Previously it was only possible to configure Sync with the Omni Sync Server by using the Advanced sync type.)
  • Updated the help text at the bottom of the Sync Preferences to indicate that OmniFocus for Mac can sync with OmniFocus for iOS devices.
  • The controls for sharing your Sync Settings with your iOS devices are now hidden by default in the Sync Preferences. They can be accessed by clicking on the disclosure button at the bottom left.
  • The user interface for hiding counters in the sidebar has been removed.
  • The “Show Projects and Action Groups in Context Mode” setting has been removed from the menubar and placed in the Data Preferences. Toggling the setting updates all windows open in Context mode immediately.
  • Updated Data Preferences to fit better on small screens.

Stability

  • Fixed a crash encountered when assigning a context to actions in the “No Context” group in Context mode.
  • Corrected parsing of timespans when running localized versions of OmniFocus.
  • Improved error reporting for corrupt transaction files.

Miscellaneous

  • The Growl notification names now correctly refer to Items instead of Tasks.
  • The help button in the licenses panel now loads the correct page in the Help Viewer.

OmniFocus for iPad 1.2.4

March 22, 2011

OmniFocus 1.2.4 adds improved support for using the camera on iPad 2, and corrects a regression introduced in the previous release.

  • When tapping the Add Photo button on an iPad with a camera, you now have the option of taking a photo or using an existing photo in your Library.
  • Fixed a regression in which overdue and due soon counts on Contexts incorrectly included completed items.

OmniFocus for iPhone 1.8.2

December 15, 2010

OmniFocus 1.8.2 is a maintenance release which improves performance when scheduling local notifications for Due Reminders and includes fixes for synchronization with WebDAV servers using self-signed certificates.

Performance

  • Resolved a problem in which marking actions or projects complete was sluggish if local notifications were enabled.
  • Resolved a problem which could lead to increased startup and sync times if local notifications were enabled.

Syncing

  • Fixed a bug that caused a sync error to be incorrectly reported during the first sync after launch when syncing with a WebDAV server using a self-signed certificate.
  • Fixed a bug where the initial sync with a WebDAV server using a self-signed certificate incorrectly displayed a sync error alert above the certificate trust prompt.
  • Fixed a bug where syncing with a WebDAV server using a self-signed certificate would cause OmniFocus to crash on iOS 4.0.
  • Fixed a bug in Sync Setup where the Save button was not functional when either Nothing or Bonjour was selected.
  • Fixed a crash in Bonjour syncing when entering the background while the Mac is unavailable.

User Interface

  • Fixed a bug when running on iOS 4 or later where suspending the application could result in actions not being marked due soon or overdue at the appropriate time.

OmniFocus for iPad 1.2.2

December 15, 2010

OmniFocus 1.2.2 is a maintenance release which improves performance when scheduling local notifications for Due Reminders and includes fixes for synchronization with WebDAV servers using self-signed certificates.

Performance

  • Resolved a problem in which marking actions or projects complete was sluggish if local notifications were enabled.
  • Resolved a problem which could lead to increased startup and sync times if local notifications were enabled.

Syncing

  • Fixed a bug that caused a sync error to be incorrectly reported during the first sync after launch when syncing with a WebDAV server using a self-signed certificate.
  • Fixed a bug where the initial sync with a WebDAV server using a self-signed certificate incorrectly displayed a sync error alert above the certificate trust prompt.
  • Fixed a bug where syncing with a WebDAV server using a self-signed certificate would cause OmniFocus to crash on iOS 4.0.
  • Fixed a bug in Sync Setup where the Save button was not functional when either Nothing or Bonjour was selected.
  • Fixed a crash in Bonjour syncing when entering the background while the Mac is unavailable.
  • Fixed a bug where the an error badge was incorrectly displayed in the sync toolbar button are the initial sync with a WebDAV server using a self-signed certificate.

User Interface

  • Fixed a bug in Forecast mode on iOS 4.2 where suspending the application could result in actions not being marked due or due soon at the appropriate time.
  • Fixed a bug where the application's user interface could become unresponsive after using a contextual menu.
  • Fixed a bug where the highlighted state of the disclosure button in the outline view did not appear on iOS 4.2.