OmniFocus 4

November 25, 2024

OmniFocus 4.4.3 is a minor update focused on bug fixes and sync improvements. All Platforms • Omni Automation — Added `window.toolbarVisible` property. See OmniFocus: Release Notes in API Reference for more information. • Omni Automation — Added API to translate between database objects and URLs. See OmniFocus: Release Notes in API Reference for more information. • Omni Automation — Added support for specifying the dropped date of a task. See OmniFocus: Release Notes in API Reference for more information. • Shortcuts — Fixed several crashes related to App Shortcuts. • Shortcuts — Fixed a crash in the Today’s Forecast action which would result in ignoring the setting for Show When Run. iPhone • First Launch — Sync button will no longer be disabled if you skip sync setup, then change your mind. iPad • First Launch — Sync button will no longer be disabled if you skip sync setup, then change your mind. • Quick Entry — Fixed layout of Quick Entry when used from other apps. • Toolbar — Fixed an elusive crash related to the popover inspector, on specific sizes of iPad. Apple Watch • Sync — Apple Watch app will no longer attempt any database maintenance tasks, reducing sync times. These tasks are still handled by OmniFocus on Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro. If you have any feedback or questions, we’d love to hear from you! The Omni Group offers free tech support; you can email omnifocus@omnigroup.com or call 1–206–523–4152. If OmniFocus empowers you, we would appreciate an App Store review. Your review will help other people find OmniFocus and make them more productive too.

October 24, 2024

OmniFocus 4.4.2 is a minor update focused on bug fixes. iPhone & iPad • Notes — Additional fix to address a bug that could cause note edits in the inspector to be copied to a different item. Apple Vision Pro • Notes — Additional fix to address a bug that could cause note edits in the inspector to be copied to a different item. If you have any feedback or questions, we’d love to hear from you! The Omni Group offers free tech support; you can email omnifocus@omnigroup.com or call 1–206–523–4152. If OmniFocus empowers you, we would appreciate an App Store review. Your review will help other people find OmniFocus and make them more productive too.

October 14, 2024

OmniFocus 4.4.1 is a minor update focused on bug fixes. All Platforms • Styling note text via Omni Automation no longer triggers a crash. iPhone & iPad • Keyboard — Project and Tag pickers now support Chinese Pinyin input on iOS/iPadOS 18. • Keyboard — Pressing the tab key now confirms autocomplete suggestion when appropriate. • Notes — Additional fix to address a bug that could cause note edits in the inspector to be copied to a different item. • Notes — Addressed a bug that could cause new note content entered in Inspector to be lost after some types of navigation. • Notes — Addressed a bug that could cause link formatting in notes field to bleed into notes field of other selected items. • Sharing — Popovers now layout correctly when sharing to OmniFocus on iPadOS 18. • VoiceOver — Fixed a bug that could cause sidebar projects/tags list contents to be inaccessible by VoiceOver after toggling Show Sidebar button. If you have any feedback or questions, we’d love to hear from you! The Omni Group offers free tech support; you can email omnifocus@omnigroup.com or call 1–206–523–4152. If OmniFocus empowers you, we would appreciate an App Store review. Your review will help other people find OmniFocus and make them more productive too.

September 16, 2024

OmniFocus 4.4 introduces new Quick Entry, Quick Open, and Open Perspective functionality, brings new gesture and widget support to Apple Watch, and improves compatibility with newer OS versions. OmniFocus 4.4 requires macOS 14 Sonoma, iOS 17, iPadOS 17, watchOS 10, or visionOS 1. Some features may not be available on all supported OSes. All Platforms • OS Compatibility — Improved compatibility with newer versions of macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and visionOS. • Shortcuts — New Quick Entry, Quick Open, and Open Perspective shortcuts. • Spotlight — Quick Entry, Quick Open, and Open Perspective shortcuts are now included in Spotlight search results on supported OSes. • Localizations — Localization updates. • Widgets — Widgets no longer allow for selection of custom perspectives when OmniFocus is running in Standard mode. iPhone & iPad • Control Center — Customize Control Center with resizable new Quick Entry, Quick Open and Open Perspective controls available in the Control gallery. • Lock Screen — Replace the controls at the bottom of the Lock Screen for new Quick Entry, Quick Open and Open Perspective controls to quickly access your most frequently used OmniFocus features. • Action Button — Customize the Action Button to launch Quick Entry, Quick Open, or a perspective (requires iPhone with Action Button). • Home Screen — App Icon and widgets have been optimized for light, dark, and tinted display. • Widgets — Tapping on a date in Forecast Widget now launches OmniFocus to selected date in Forecast. • Outline — Date fields now display in time-only format in outlines grouped by date (matching Mac behavior). • Outline — Row swipe now action now displays correct tag icon. • Settings — Removed deprecated "Show Explanation in Today Widget" setting. • Sync — Fixed a bug that could temporarily block displaying synced changes. Apple Watch • Gestures — Double tap now activates Quick Entry or completes the displayed item (double tap gesture requires supported Apple Watch). • Widgets & Complications — New widget type displays Inbox, Forecast, and Flagged item counts in Smart Stack and on supported watch faces. • Widgets & Complications — Item completion is now supported in new interactive widgets in Smart Stack and on supported watch faces. • Widgets & Complications — Additional watchOS complication options now highlight key elements using the watch face's accent color. • Siri — Siri capture has been updated for parity with functionality available in iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS, allowing for assignment of project and tags on capture. • Quick Entry — Quick Entry button is now displayed when viewing outline. If you have any feedback or questions, we’d love to hear from you! The Omni Group offers free tech support; you can email omnifocus@omnigroup.com or call 1–206–523–4152. If OmniFocus empowers you, we would appreciate an App Store review. Your review will help other people find OmniFocus and make them more productive too.

August 26, 2024

Our team is currently hard at work updating OmniFocus to support the new operating systems announced last month and shipping later this year. But we’ve also been fixing some important bugs! All Platforms • Outline — Fixed a bug that could cause new items to sometimes appear to be added above the previously selected outline row instead of below it. • Omni Automation — Addressed an installation path bug that could occur for Github hosted plug-ins installed via Install Link. • Perspectives — "Due Soon" status filter no longer includes items which have inherited the completed (or dropped) status from a project or parent. • Sync — Disconnected database transaction files detected on the sync server are now cleaned up after one week. iPhone & iPad • Dates — Fixed a bug that could cause date changes in date picker to be discarded if time is also changed. • Keyboard — Displayed hardware keyboard row highlight now stays in sync with actual outline selection. • Outline — Improved animation after marking an item complete. • Outline — Creating items in a previously empty outline via hardware keyboard no longer breaks drag & drop. • Outline — Scroll gesture no longer breaks up/down keyboard navigation in outline. • Repeats — Restored ability to customize days of week for monthly repetitions. • Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur on sync in certain app states. Apple Watch • Complications — Circular Infographic complication now displays relevant task title in addition to item count. • Sync — Watch app now attempts to connect to the network immediately when launched while in low power mode. If you have any feedback or questions, we’d love to hear from you! The Omni Group offers free tech support; you can email omnifocus@omnigroup.com or call 1–206–523–4152. If OmniFocus empowers you, we would appreciate an App Store review. Your review will help other people find OmniFocus and make them more productive too.

July 24, 2024

OmniFocus 4.3.2 is a minor update focused on bug fixes. Our team is currently hard at work updating OmniFocus to support the new operating systems announced last month and shipping later this year. But we’ve also been fixing some important bugs! All Platforms • Forecast — Improved item sorting in Forecast, so items are sorted on selection change or Clean Up whenever Keep Sorted is enabled. • Stability — Fixed a crash sometimes encountered while calculating the location of an item in Forecast. Mac • Multiple Windows — Database rebuilds will now reopen all windows which were previously open, rather than only reopening a single window. • Notes Inspector — Fixed a bug where links added to notes using “Edit > Add Link…” could sometimes get lost. • Performance — Improved the performance of completing items by clicking on the status circle. iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro • Drag & Drop — Adding items to the outline no longer breaks the long-press drag gesture. • Inspector: Title — Fixed a bug editing the title field with a hardware keyboard where the field could lose focus immediately after being tapped unless you tapped on another inspector field first. • Inspector: Notes — Fixed a bug that could cause note edits in the inspector to be copied to a different item. • Omni Automation — Automation scripts that present forms should no longer run into an error saying “No presenting view controller found.” • Stability — Fixed a crash encountered when an building a Spotlight index after conflicting edits deleted an item which had a tag assigned to it on another device. • Sync Settings [Apple Vision Pro] — Updated the Replace Sync Data dialog to have a more reasonable size on visionOS. • VoiceOver — Fixed a recent regression from the inspector redesign in 4.3 that could cause VoiceOver to get stuck in the top toolbar rather than navigating through the inspector fields. • VoiceOver — Made it possible to navigate through search results that return results from outside the current perspective (i.e. when using the “Search Remaining” and “Search Everything” options). If you have any feedback or questions, we’d love to hear from you! The Omni Group offers free tech support; you can email omnifocus@omnigroup.com, call 1–800–315–6664 or 1–206–523–4152, or tweet @OmniFocus. If OmniFocus empowers you, we would appreciate an App Store review. Your review will help other people find OmniFocus and make them more productive too.

June 24, 2024

OmniFocus 4.3.1 is a minor update focused on bug fixes. All Platforms • Custom Perspectives [Pro] — Displayed perspective rules now refresh automatically when changed in another context (such as another window, another device, or through some automation). • Custom Perspectives [Pro] — When a perspective is organized by projects, hiding the “Preserve hierarchy” switch, its hidden value no longer affects the contents of the perspective. • Custom Perspectives [Pro] — Restored ability to cancel out of upgrading legacy custom perspectives. • Localization — Restored missing Spanish strings in View Options. • Unsupported OS Alerts — Unsupported OS alert no longer presents on every app launch. • Stability — Fixed a crash that could be triggered by Omni Automation scripts which focus on a folder. iPhone & iPad • Omni Automation [Pro] — Addressed a memory leak that could be triggered by repeatedly running Omni Automations via a shortcut. • Outline — Empty space displayed at bottom of outline is now a drop target. If you have any feedback or questions, we’d love to hear from you! The Omni Group offers free tech support; you can email omnifocus@omnigroup.com, call 1–800–315–6664 or 1–206–523–4152, or tweet @OmniFocus. If OmniFocus empowers you, we would appreciate an App Store review. Your review will help other people find OmniFocus and make them more productive too.

June 5, 2024

OmniFocus 4.3 introduces support for device Focus Filters and a new Set/Remove Favorite Perspective shortcut. Additionally, this release includes a wide range of improvements and bug fixes, including new custom perspective rule comments, enhanced Apple Watch sync reliability, and improved outline behavior in a variety of contexts. All Platforms: • Device Focus Filters — In the Focus section of the Settings app, you can now configure Focus Filters for OmniFocus to limit which folders are visible when a device Focus is enabled. Note that when a device Focus is applied in this way, it’s no longer possible to use the custom Focus feature in OmniFocus Pro until you exit the device Focus. • Shortcuts — New Set/Remove Favorite Perspective shortcut. With this shortcut, you can change your favorite perspectives based on your device focus or by using a Siri command. • Custom Perspectives — You can now intersperse comments among your perspective rules. • Clean Up — Selected items now immediately clean up when removed from current view via drag & drop or a key command. • Inspector — Updated Inspector layout code to be better shared cross-platform, including some visual changes for cross-platform consistency. • Localizations — Localization updates. • Outline — Improved overall stability/reliability of outline order when editing. • Review — Review now supports filtering by availability. • Custom Perspectives — The correct tag is now assigned when adding an action to a custom perspective which groups actions by tag but doesn’t sort them in Tags Order. • Quick Open — Fixed a bug where using Quick Open to find a project or folder would fail to select that target in the sidebar when the window was focused. • Sidebar — Fixed a bug that could cause content displayed in the outline to fall out of sync with the selection in the sidebar. • Stability — Crash fixes. iPhone & iPad: • Outline — Outline content is no longer pinned to bottom of the screen when scrolling. • Outline — Note icons now float towards the trailing edge of the row (where they’re more likely to align with other note icons) rather than being placed adjacent to the title text. • Widgets — The small Forecast widget for the Lock Screen now counts items that are due soon as well as those that are overdue. For customers who prefer to count only overdue items, we’ve added a separate Overdue widget. • Expansion State — Fixed a bug that could cause collapsed parent items in the sidebar and outline to be incorrectly displayed as expanded. • Forecast — Fixed a bug that could cause calendar events to disappear when scrolling. • Outline — All four corners of row selection highlight are once again rounded. • Outline — Attachments can now be deleted from notes in the outline. • Performance — Very large image attachments no longer negatively impact performance. • Select Mode — Addressed incorrect row spacing that could occur when scrolling with Select Mode enabled. • VoiceOver — Search results for a Here scoped search are now accessible to VoiceOver. • VoiceOver — Focus is now always placed immediately in the title field when the “Edit in Inspector” VoiceOver action is invoked. • VoiceOver — Estimated Duration units are now read correctly by VoiceOver. Apple Watch • Note Indicator — Items now indicate when they have a note or attachment. • Complications — The Forecast complication now counts items that are due soon as well as those that are overdue. For customers who prefer to count only overdue items, we’ve added a separate Overdue complication. • Sync — When a paired iPhone is nearby, the watch app will now download recent changes from that iPhone prior to syncing with the sync server. This makes syncing faster and more reliable when the watch doesn’t have a fast connection to the sync server. • Sync — The watch app now attempts to sync automatically whenever it detects that the iPhone app has newer data. • Complications — Improved display and reliability of watch complications.

May 13, 2024

OmniFocus 4.2.2 is a minor update focused on bug fixes. • Stability — Addressed a crash that could occur when swiping between outline and sidebar or rapidly tapping on a Perspectives Bar tab. If you have any feedback or questions, we’d love to hear from you! The Omni Group offers free tech support; you can email omnifocus@omnigroup.com, call 1–800–315–6664 or 1–206–523–4152, or tweet @OmniFocus. If OmniFocus empowers you, we would appreciate an App Store review. Your review will help other people find OmniFocus and make them more productive too.

April 16, 2024

OmniFocus 4.2.1 is a minor update focused on bug fixes. • Custom Perspectives [Pro] — "In the past" date range rules now include items through the current time today. • Omni Automation [Pro] — Improved Omni Automation's Install Link support for plug-ins hosted on github. • Apple Watch — Corner complications now display accurately for empty perspectives. • Custom Perspectives [Pro] — Addressed a bug that could cause incomplete outline content to display after modifying a custom perspective rule. • Custom Perspectives [Pro] — Corrected capitalization for “Has date in range” rule summaries. • VoiceOver — Quick Open results are now accessible by VoiceOver. • VoiceOver — Flagged status is now read on selection of flagged items. • Stability — Fixed a crash trigged by Omni Automation plug-ins which attach a file to an email. If you have any feedback or questions, we’d love to hear from you! The Omni Group offers free tech support; you can email omnifocus@omnigroup.com, call 1–800–315–6664 or 1–206–523–4152, or tweet @OmniFocus. If OmniFocus empowers you, we would appreciate an App Store review. Your review will help other people find OmniFocus and make them more productive too.

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