Comments on: Vaporware, pre-announcements, and conch-bleatings (oh my)

By: benjamin

benjamin — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:21:29 +0000

I can’t wait to see what you guys are cooking up… In the meantime, I have two feature requests:
1) Quicksilver integration
2) Ability to email things to my OmniFocus (via a central server I would imagine): sometimes I’ll sit at work and think of errands I need to take care of when I get back home. It would be great not to have to write them on a post-it, but rather send a quick note to myusername@quickadd.omnifocus.omnigroup.com..

By: Leonardo Burci

Leonardo Burci — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:35:50 +0000

I whish to second the request for the possibilty to insert/do audio records in OmniFocus.

“Not sure if this has been suggested, but Omnifocus definitely needs a voice recorder like outliner. Make it very simple like OO, and the audio is placed in the inbox.”

Regarding the vaporware discussion I just decided to buy Midnight Inbox from Midnight Beep (http://www.midnightbeep.com/) although still quite buggy.
Once in beta I will examine OmniFocus to find out if it does a better job or if it comes closer to what my needs and subjective approach to GTD are.

By: Zach

Zach — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:27:10 +0000

You really shouldn’t have made this post. Don’t let them get to you and certainly don’t show it/don’t feed the trolls, and all that. Just go on doing what you’re doing. Removing any blogs that get under your skin from your RSS reader, temporarily, will help.

By: jim a

jim a — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:18:53 +0000

Hah…. All this ballyhoo reminds me of that saying (to paraphrase), “Academic fights are so ugly because there’s so little at stake.”

Thanks for the update Linda.

Happy Santa Lucia Day everyone!

By: Michael Klouda

Michael Klouda — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 21:58:34 +0000

I am looking forward to when you have more information and a beta of this product. I am using another product that I will not name. It is nice, but I am sure that you can do so much better.

By: Danny Zacharias

Danny Zacharias — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:27:11 +0000

Not sure if this has been suggested, but Omnifocus definitely needs a voice recorder like outliner. Make it very simple like OO, and the audio is placed in the inbox.
Secondly, put it in the services menu so it is available across the operating system. Give it a simple keystroke that is both start and stop- so that any time an idea pops into my head I can hit command-control-shift-R (or something) to start the recording, and stop it. I can trust that the recording will get into my inbox and I won’t have to worry about forgetting anything. Very GTDish.

By: John Laudun

John Laudun — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:00:10 +0000

Well, now, Gruber’s blog is occasionally itself just this side of vaporish, in terms of delivering content. But I wouldn’t want to be without folks like Gruber and Siracusa, young curmudgeons with damned good insights into a variety of things.

That said, get OP ready and get onto OF. I’m about to take a stick to iCal and I really could use a better way to manage tasks.

I sent you a longer note as part of a recent crash report for OmniWeb because I had just about had it with iCal, but I think I was a little delusional with rage, so you shouldn’t probably read it — unless of course you too are delusional with rage over iCal crashing or randomly adding new blank calendars — or because .Mac as a syncing service is really still pretty pathetic — or, maybe, you want something to laugh over while you eat way too much chocolate.)

By: Falko

Falko — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 06:25:08 +0000

Hi there,

I absolutly trust you because of the other fantastic products you’ve made so far.
Is there a way to get Alpha or Beta tester for OmniFocus? I like to get my dog kicked

By: raj

raj — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:38:07 +0000

gruber is backtracking in almost comical fashion now. in order to seem like he wasn’t implying anything, everything that we have foreknowledge of is vaporware, it’s simply a matter of DEGREE.

you gotta be f’n kidding me.

By: The Book of Ryan

The Book of Ryan — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:10:26 +0000

Vaporware insults, part 2…

Wow–I’m really taking a beating on this one.

Without a doubt, the decision to pre-announce software may not be a good one.
I still think, however, that my commenters discount the Omni cult following. There
are many people who want to be in…