OmniFocus 4

Christian

Please go back to the older interface. I have used Omnifocus for many many years and just upgraded to Omnifocus 4. On a simple task with attached photos for an errand to a store became a nightmare to keep the task open and see the attachments. What used to be seamless and easy to track. This is now complicated as the task continues to close automatically when I'm looking at attachments. I couldn't have been more frustrated with the user experience on such a simple task. Please go back one version for your user interface as Omnifocus 4 Pro is way more difficult to use and clunky as a user. I can't imagine someone thought this was a better interface.

I keep coming back to Omnifocus. Apple reminders is great, but Omnifocus is still better for serious task management. I love the keyboard shortcut on Mac, love the Inbox concept. Just works great. Also, I almost switched to Notion but there is a big problem with Notion. Notion is great on desktop and web, but is absolutely terrible on mobile. OmniFocus works great on all platforms.

I’ve depended on OmniFocus since the first day it came out and was an early alpha and beta user on the desktop. I can’t imagine a life without this app. As an avid GTD user, this software is perfectly suited to bring me peace and achieve a mind that is “still like water”. I get the space and focus necessary for me to do my creative work and sleep well at night because of this wonderful app.

The latest upgrade to Omnifocus 4.5 has been helpful to me just for the fact that we finally have better adjustment of text size on the Mac. Before it was either too small or too large but now there is much finer control. The app works well for me on the Mac and iPhone. Still room for improvement but it is encouraging to see this upgrade. I hope more fixes and features are on the way.

This was recommended to me by the David Allen Company, it’s a great task manager, very well developed and easy to use with few limitations.

I understand Omni tried to shoehorn all functions from the desktop version into this app, but there are too many compromises. Each control seems to have multiple functions depending on what you are doing at the time. Tapping something sequentially may do three different things. One missing function is the ability to search for a specific action item, which is important in my workflow. I like OF 4 on my iMac, but I am sticking with OF 3 on my iPhone.

I’ve used OF since the beginning. It was always good & powerful. But with OF 4 & the unified appearance & functionality across devices, they’ve hit a grand slam. Any previous complaint about undue complexity in OF is now nonsense. If you’re deadly serious about the performance of your task manager, you need to consider OF. My wife prefers Things, probably bc her brain is *fundamentally* different than mine.

I hate the upgrade. I have used Omnifocus for ever and loved it. The upgrade is way too complex.

I gave up on the previous version. Probably time to accept that this developer will never have a stable app. Too bad, there are some cool features, but not helpful if it doesn’t work Well it worked for a week. Today all syncing stopped. Wasted money again. I want to Ike this app, but every version has been a failure. For the cost, this is not acceptable. This group should go out of business if they can’t keep the product working.