Comments on: OmniFocus crash statistics

By: scot

scot — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:35:01 +0000

the problem with this system is, as you get more users that are using the sofware flipantly, your hours will go up. You’ll have someone look at it, add a few things to it, and become disinterested, so they won’t get into the hardcore use.

Also, as time goes on, alpha testers will run out of personal tricks for breaking it.

Graphs are cool though.

By: Chris Ostmo

Chris Ostmo — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:47:37 +0000

Yeah, wow.

I have had Focus for nearly a month now, and not a single crash. Obviously some (obvious) bugs, but never a crash.

Regularly signing up for Alpha tests, I would have expected many - like, for example, the MySQL GUI tools that have been in Alpha release for a couple of years and crash every time you do any of four or five things.

You guys continue to hold a special place in my heart as my favorite Mac development team.

I can’t believe I’m about to type this… I can’t wait until the final version comes out so that I can buy it.

Great work so far!

By: Michael Third

Michael Third — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:51:07 +0000

I subscribed to the mailing list back in March or April, but didn’t receive a preview email. It may have landed in the spam folder. Any chance I could get it resent?

By: Ben Rosengart

Ben Rosengart — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:38:59 +0000

Instead of (or in addition to) counting wall time, why not count CPU time? This would allow you to differentiate between time spent in the background and time spent in active use.

By: Steve Linberg

Steve Linberg — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:57:05 +0000

I subscribed on the 24th, so I’ll be watching my inbox breathlessly. Thanks!

By: Ken Case

Ken Case — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:40:43 +0000

On our forums, we post weekly status updates about our sneaky peek invitations. Today’s update reads:

10,625 invitations have been sent (to 93% of 11,382 subscribers), bringing us up to July 24 (two weeks ago today). At our current rate, someone who subscribes today will receive an invitation within five days.

By: Steve Linberg

Steve Linberg — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:25:19 +0000

Please, please, please consider looking at your recent mailing list subscriptions and inviting newbies to participate in the tasty alpha peeks? I just bought OO pro (OG pro too) and am using kGTD, which is very cool, but I’d love to kick the tires with OF, which you can definitely put me down for right now.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:45:32 +0000

I would like to echo what has already been said, I have had no problems with crashing. I can’t believe this is an “alpha” build. It’s so dependable that I actually depend on it for my day-to-day GTD needs. It’s awesome.

By: Jeffery Smith

Jeffery Smith — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:52:49 +0000

I haven’t experienced any crashes, but on my newest Mac Book, I consistently get the “Can’t push calendar” when trying to sync with iCal. I don’t get that message with my older G4 notebook.

These latest alphas are getting good enough that I’m leaning toward using OmniFocus instead of other GTD programs (most of which are buggy in their post-beta versions).

By: Phillip Deackes

Phillip Deackes — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:41:12 +0000

Doh! Profuse apologies, Tim. I assumed the ‘focus’ meant you were focussing on OmniWeb. Sorry, guys!