![]() Swiping the task to the left brings up three different actions that can be quickly and easily executed, So, starting with some of the swipe functions that are available on the Main Outline. Let’s drill down into the nitty gritty details of each. ![]() These three areas, Home, Main Outline, Task Editor are where you will be spending your time. Naturally, the task title but also other things such as due dates, contexts, comments and so on. Clicking on any of the tasks will bring up the Task Editor, where additional task information can be entered. On the right, we have the Main Outline list. Those provide quick and easy access to the commonly used functions that you need when managing tasks in the GTD methodology. On the left side of the screen we have the Home Screen whereby the main topics such as Inbox, Contexts, Reviews etc. If you are using Omnifocus on the iPad, in landscape orientation, the user interface is as that shown in the screenshot below. Omnifocus 2 User Interface for IOS Devices the choice of mere mortals like ourselves. This Omnifocus 2 review will cover the Standard version, i.e. There are actually two versions of Omnifocus 2 for IOS devices available in the iTunes store, standard and Pro, with the latter offering custom perspectives – I will explain this later. This review will be centred on the IOS version which can be applied to iPads & iPhones. Omnifocus supports all Apple products including Mac computers, iPads, iPhones and even iWatch. ![]() For people who have read the book and decided that this is the right system for them, Omnifocus is certainly worth consideration – with one provision, if and only if, you are also an Apple product user. Needless to say, there are aspects of it which are part and parcel of Omnifocus 2 such as Inbox, Contexts, Reviews and the Next Action concepts. Omnifocus is closely aligned with the infamous Getting Things Done(GTD) methodology. OK, buckle up and let’s get stuck into it. No doubt you are probably thinking when will the review begin. I just realize that, although I have just started this Omnifocus 2 review, I am blithering about Thoroughbreds, Tweed suits and stalwarts. Omnifocus 2 is like a tailor made tweed suit – created with care, comfortably familiar for GTD fans and….rather expensive So, in the longer term, Omnifocus is good value. To weight up against the expensive entry price is the fact that this payment covers iPads, iPhones and iWatch and there is no annual subscription to pay. There is little bling and it just gets on with the business of managing your tasks in a competent, understated way with a minimum of fuss. With storage space being so cheap these days it's no big deal to leave dead wood like Reminders laying around - as long as it doesn't have any security holes.Bottom Line Omnifocus 2 is like a tailor made tweed suit – created with care, comfortably familiar for GTD fans and….rather expensive. I imagine Apple doesn't even have a team working on it. It does so little, as far as I can tell it does not even integrate with Calendar. I love Apple, but Reminders seems like an ugly wart that should have been excised or replaced two or three iOS/macOS versions ago. Seeing what tools like OmniFocus are able to do also reminds me of how pathetic Apple's own Reminders app really is. Android support is good to have as well, and web support is always a backstop if there is no native app available for a supported operating system. ![]() I always shoot for Windows, Mac, Linux, and iOS compatibility. Cross platform access is a big deal for me. But for smaller projects, agile teams, personal/home projects, and to-do lists I've found Trello (and comparable tools that can scale to support team collaboration) are often good enough and at least worth trialing. If you're doing commercial construction, aerospace/military projects, medical systems, etc., I'm sure the bigger ticket tools are essential. The end result from a productivity and delivery standpoint doesn't appear to be much different and the lightweight tools seem to fit the agile approach somewhat better. After years of using complex and highly integrated tools for prioritizing, managing, and scheduling work, e.g., MS Project, Microsoft TFS, I've seen the pendulum swing back the other way towards very simple and low overhead Kanban oriented tools like whiteboards (with Post-Its as needed), Trello, and Slack. OmniFocus is undoubtedly a very powerful GTD oriented tool for folks who have to manage a lot of complexity in their daily lives. ![]()
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