The Omni Mouth » Ethan http://blog.omnigroup.com The Omni Mouth: standing outside your bedroom window playing \"In Your Eyes\" since 2006. Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:34:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 OmniFocus for iPhone arrives http://blog.omnigroup.com/2008/07/10/omnifocus-for-iphone-arrives/ http://blog.omnigroup.com/2008/07/10/omnifocus-for-iphone-arrives/#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:54:22 +0000 Ethan http://blog.omnigroup.com/2008/07/10/omnifocus-for-iphone-arrives/ The Omni Group is proud to announce the birth of a new bouncing baby app: OmniFocus for iPhone. Don’t let its size fool you. It may fit in your pocket, but it’s got all the same classy and nifty that you get with OmniFocus for Mac. For instance:

  • Full featured as a stand alone iPhone app, or…
  • Sync wirelessly with OmniFocus 1.1 on your Mac (via MobileMe or generic WebDAV)
  • Same powerful management of your projects, contexts and actions
  • Easy access to special lists such as Due Soon, Overdue, and Flagged

We figured that as long as we were building an iPhone app, we should take advantage of some of the neat stuff you can do on the phone. Here are some of the iPhone-only features that are shipping in the application right now:

  • Dynamic location-aware action lists: Let OmniFocus for iPhone put together a list of actions that can be accomplished near to your current location!
  • Photo capture: Save quick snapshots to your OmniFocus inbox. If you’re using sync, these will show up in OmniFocus on your Mac.
  • Voice notes: Sometimes it’s just faster to record a quick voice note to yourself.

There’s more information and links to the App Store on the OmniFocus for iPhone page. Also, our very own Michaela has put together a great intro video for OmniFocus for iPhone. If you’re curious about the application and would like to see more before purchasing, check it out now. It’s a 26MB 15MB download so you might want to option-click that link to start it downloading rather than wait for the page to load it in fully.

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Apple Design Awards 2008

(scroll to the bottom of the page for the iphone section)

That’s right… it appears that OmniFocus for the iPhone is both cutting-edge and well dressed. We’re super proud of this and can’t wait to get it out there so that folks can start using it. Let’s have a big round of applause for the team working on the iPhone app. They’ve been working serious amounts of crazy to get this ready and I am constantly picking my jaw up off the floor when they still, somehow, manage to find time to sneak in some really cool new feature.

For those of you that haven’t seen the OmniFocus for iPhone preview page, take a look now. More coming soon.

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In reality of course we heard mostly the gentle sounds of typing, muffled wails and occasional high volume electronica beats early in the morning, but masterpiece is the right word for the result.

Here’s a shot of the prefs pane from the alpha build of OmniFocus that is, right now, this very minute, running on my desktop. I can now leave my laptop at home and have all my data sync up using not one, not two, but three different sync options.

Click the image below to view LIFE SIZE.Sync Lives!

Still internal alpha for now, but we’re planning on having this in the public sneaky peek before the release of Duke Nukem Forever or whenever Ken gets tired of waiting for it to be done.

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