{"id":22896,"date":"2018-09-26T14:54:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T18:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22896"},"modified":"2018-09-27T16:30:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T20:30:20","slug":"omnifocus-3-for-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/26\/omnifocus-3-for-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"OmniFocus 3 for Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/blog\/omnifocus-3-for-mac\">Brent Simmons<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/blog\/omnifocus-3-for-mac\">\n<p>This release brings a modern design that still manages to feel familiar &mdash; OmniFocus 2 users will feel right at home, while still being delighted by the fresh new user interface. It also brings new features and improves existing features.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<ul><li>Tags add a powerful additional organizing tool. Create tags for people, energy levels, priorities, locations, and more.<\/li>\n<li>The Forecast view shows your tasks and calendar events in order, so you can better see what&rsquo;s coming up in your day.<\/li>\n<li>Enhanced repeating tasks are easier than ever to set up &mdash;&nbsp;and they work with real-world examples such as the first weekday of the month.<\/li>\n<li>The updated, modern design helps you focus on your projects and actions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>A solid update to one of my most important apps. My favorite new feature is being able to reorder actions from the Tags view. They&rsquo;ve also brought back the 1.x feature of being able to drag and drop onto tags within the main part of the window. I was initially concerned about tags replacing contexts because I thought this might make things cumbersome given that I usually only want one tag, but the implementation seems to be really well done.<\/p>\n\n<p>I like the updated design in general, but the inspector has lower information density than before. I suppose the idea was to follow Apple&rsquo;s lead with iWork&rsquo;s iOS-inspired sidebars, which I also found to be a regression. Whereas I used to be able to quickly glance at the inspector to, e.g., check a date, I can no longer do that without scrolling. In theory, I should be able to collapse some of the sections to more easily see the areas I care about. However, each section contains something that I <em>do<\/em> want to see, so there&rsquo;s no way to hide just the parts that I rarely care about (status and duration) or to use a smaller font or a less padded layout.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/blog\/omnifocus-3-frequently-asked-questions\">Brent Simmons<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/blog\/omnifocus-3-frequently-asked-questions\">\n<p>Your old archive isn&rsquo;t copied to OmniFocus 3 as part of the first run &mdash; but the first time you use the Archive feature in OmniFocus 3, the app will prompt you to copy it over.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kcase\/status\/1040723804182306816\">Ken Case<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kcase\/status\/1040723804182306816\">\n<p>When OmniFocus 3 for Mac becomes available for sale (on Monday, September 24), you&rsquo;ll be able to get a 50% discount on the upgrade so long as you download the new version from the same source as your earlier version.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>The Mac App Store doesn&rsquo;t support paid upgrades, so this is implemented as a separate SKU that offers you a discounted In-App Purchase if you had purchased the previous version. The direct sale version also has the new bundle identifier, and as a result it doesn&rsquo;t retain your preferences from OmniFocus 2.<\/p>\n\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theomnishow.omnigroup.com\/episode\/omnifocus-3-for-mac-launch-day-new-design\">The Omni Show<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/reviews\/omnifocus-3-for-mac-multiple-tags-enhanced-forecast-powerful-perspectives\/\">Rosemary Orchard<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.macsparky.com\/p\/omnifocus\">David Sparks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bowersvoice.com\/blog\/2018\/9\/24\/omnifocus-3-for-mac-keep-it-simple-or-dont\">Eric Bowers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/18\/09\/24\/hands-on-much-awaited-omnifocus-3-for-mac-brings-tags-to-to-do-tasks\">William Gallagher<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/03\/omnifocus-3-for-ios\/\">OmniFocus 3 for iOS<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/29\/omnifocus-2018-roadmap\/\">OmniFocus 2018 Roadmap<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p id=\"omnifocus-3-for-mac-update-2018-09-27\">Update (2018-09-27): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macsparky.com\/blog\/2018\/9\/omnifocus-3-for-the-mac\">David Sparks<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/allenpike.com\/2018\/blowing-up-omnifocus\/\">Allen Pike<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brent Simmons: This release brings a modern design that still manages to feel familiar &mdash; OmniFocus 2 users will feel right at home, while still being delighted by the fresh new user interface. It also brings new features and improves existing features. [&#8230;] Tags add a powerful additional organizing tool. 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