![]() ![]() It's worth a shot, but it does make OmniFocus look downright polished UI-wise. It looks like it was cobbled together homegrown feature by feature and the design unfortunately really does show it. The only problem is literally every part of the app has different key mappings and UI affordances. It's stunningly effective in these ways and gives you so much more flexibility than Omni. You can't be both UI and NI for example, so you can create an Urgent/Important exclusive group and make it a dropdown. Tag groups can be active parts of the UI that turn into task entry dropdowns, so you can make your OmniFocus tag system into actual user interface with exclusive tags. ![]() It is incredibly configurable across any number of productivity systems, and the query language for saved searches (aka perspectives) is straight up RPN with a metric crapload of task matchers and unlimited stack depth. The UI is beyond idiosyncratic, but the only web package I've found with enough power to replicate all my OmniFocus perspectives is The Amazing Marvin. ![]() I like my own system, predictably enough. I've been trying to adapt myself back to mainstream reality that Todoist or TickTick could handle for portability's sake but so far haven't succeeded. I have my own Eisenhoweresque productivity system for triage and prioritization implemented across ~10 perspectives, etc. Org probably come closest to fully replacing OmniFocus, but syncing between a Linux box and iOS devices has been. That said, I've tried everything else, including Todoist and even org-mode, but found myself come back to OmniFocus in the end since I found Perspective to be essential to my workflow (even though web version doesn't support Perspective at all, at least I can use it on my iPad). I hope they improve the web version, but the development doesn't seems very active It's not usable standalone at all (for example, you cannot create recurring tasks, or even move a project into a folder, or even _create_ a project in a folder). I have been using the web version on Linux box for almost half a year (because I don't own a Mac right now) and found it to be acceptable _only_ as a companion to iPad or iPhone version. There is a web version now but it's still missing basic functionalities, let alone the more advanced ones. Yes, they both are text editors, but the latter one is kind of "on-steroids" to the point where it makes no sense to even compare them. It's like comparing Windows' Notepad to Vim. PS: People recommending some simple task management systems they use have no idea what they are talking about trying to compare it with something like OF. But I miss you guys and I hope you'll mature to a similar decision I made - that Apple isn't "the one" and life has a lot more to offer ) We could be friends again. That's dangerous and must have consequences in the future regardless of your current views regarding what Apple does (take a look on how many Fortune 500 companies went off that index during a typical lifespan - Apple isn't eternal too).īut somehow MacOS is a very important thing in OmniGroup. Leaving OF was probably the hardest technological decision I've ever made, and even now - years later - I feel a thrilling fear remembering how I was struggling with myself about that, but I really can't afford being into a vendor lock-in with Apple or anyone else for that matter, whether it's in enterprise or my private life. It's also a fact that there's a lot people grounded in Apple's ecosystem purely because their dependence on OF (some even write about that here in this thread). A similar strategy got Evernote a lot of users (although they still don't have a native Linux app) - I mean cross-platform and the fact that they offer reasonable discounts to their loyal customers. I'd be in heaven if the company behind it - the OmniGroup - would be willing to: 1) Develop native or semi-native apps for multiple OSes + a web app 2) Cut down their pricing a little bit. The guys behind the product nailed it and even now, as far as I know, no one was able to replicate their success. People who don't do GTD religiously (and believe me - for them the GTD management system IS far more important than anything else in their toolbox) and other similar methodologies tend to have no idea what kind of difference a good system like OF makes. It's the only thing I miss after abandoning Apple ecosystem years ago. OF is the king of all GTD task management systems and have been since always. ![]()
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