OmniFocus Reviews & Product Details - Page 5

My favorite thing about OmniFocus is the syncing between all my devices. Since the last upgrade I love the interface more and the new features like maps/location. I've been using OmniFocus for seven years and with upgrades was able to easily move my data because OmniFocus provides a server for backups and syncing. The interface also allows for great separation between projects, task and personal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The cost is high but I can understand for all you get. I do wish that if you by the application for you computer that they provided the iPad and iPhone app for free. I also would like to use third party applications with OmniFocus like IFF for creating workflows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Contexts are a very interesting way of providing another pivot on your tasks; it basically allows you to see which tasks are associated w/ a particular place or person, etc. I also like being able to rapidly create tasks in the Inbox - gives you the ability to do a brain dump and get it all documented in rapid succession. I also like being able to set a deferred date and forget about a task for a while. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Providing details for each task is a bit time intensive, but they try to simplify it. Things like adding a due date with a single click of a "+1 Day" button are good attempts at this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Omnifocus offers strong flexibility in moulding it to all aspect of your personal and professional life. It's tight integration with MacOs offers users unique and efficiency that you won't able to find on other task management system. I really like the power of AppleScript and the automation that it offers to make your workflow seamless and second nature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

None. I have no complains except that I hope in the future that they will add a feature wherein users can access their content using a web browser. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A solid platform that I can rely on. Omnifocus is on my laptop and phone and is always there to show me what's next. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can take time to set up but is worth it. Would be nice to have a web based version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While it may be dense, and hard to get to know, when you master Omnifocus, you can be absolute ninja, especially when it comes to the GTD system. There's no more powerful way to manage tasks--especially now that it includes automation! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it dense, and it takes a lot of intitial setup. Once you get past that intitial setup though, it's worth it. This is an app that you really have to put to work, but once you put it to work, it's a powerhouse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OmniFocus is good for quickly describing a bunch of stuff you need to get done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Omnigraffle really fails for me on a bunch of levels.

Firstly the interface is pretty unintuitive, I really don't want to read through the documentation to figure out when I should use a project, vs sequential actions, parallel actions or folders.

The 'note' pane in the inspector is pretty basic, and offers no formatting options (or at least no obvious ones) to really describe the task.

It'd be great if OmniFocus integrated with Calendar and Reminders in a meaningful way, and could do location based alerts. Like i'm in San Francisco with customer X working on projects A, B, C, or i'm entering into meeting Y at 15:00 GMT-8, which tasks to I need to complete before then.

A large part of that could be solved if contexts autoswitched based on location, but they're just not smart enough currently.

There's also no options for sharing tasks with other people in a project. I get that it's meant to be more of a personal project management tool, than an actual project management tool, but there's times when this would be a really useful feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've used a lot of todo lists and systems in the past, this is the only application that I've stuck with, day in, day out, for this amount of time. The ease of input combined with the advanced options for sorting, filing, repeating and flagging tasks is really great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it's hard to find what you're looking for, unless you're looking in exactly the right place for it. As there are many options for how a list of tasks can be viewed, and many contexts to consider there's a bit of a learning curve involved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Using OmniFocus to follow the GTD method is both a great experience in using their beautiful and simple app, but also to ease your brain from all the stuff you shouldn't need to worry about. Getting things done are awesome! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My biggest complaint is still the sync service, it slightly improves, but comparing to other apps this lacks speed and reliability in the sync process. Sometimes it feels you need to manually sync your devices which is a pain sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Everything. This is the most powerful to do list manager in the world. I use about 10% of its full potential and I still think it's worth more than I pay for it. It syncs perfectly, it has intuitive keyboard shortcuts that make to-do list creation easy, it allows parallel or sequential projects, it allows projects within projects, it uses contexts so that you only worry about tasks while you can do them, and that's only scratching the surface of what Omnifocus can do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software is very powerful, and at times it can feel like by not learning more about it, I'm throttling myself, but it isn't very easy to learn beyond the base level of what it can do without a certain amount of knowledge or dedication. It also offers so many options that early on it can be overwhelming to figure out exactly how you want it set up, especially for people with less traditional tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- The simplicity and user-centric interface

- iCal integration

- The Sync feature of data in the cloud Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- The price

- Integrations

- Lack of web version Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.