{"id":46132,"date":"2024-12-11T15:38:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T20:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=46132"},"modified":"2025-01-06T16:44:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T21:44:24","slug":"omnifocus-4-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/11\/omnifocus-4-5\/","title":{"rendered":"OmniFocus 4.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/blog\/omnifocus-4.5-for-all-platforms\">Orion Protonentis<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/releasenotes\/omnifocus\">release notes<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/blog\/omnifocus-4.5-for-all-platforms\">\n<p>There are all-new Shortcuts actions (<strong>Complete Action<\/strong>, <strong>Complete Project<\/strong>, and <strong>Find Folders<\/strong>), Shortcuts actions that have gained additional powers (<strong>Today&rsquo;s Forecast<\/strong> now supports due, deferred, tagged, <em>and<\/em> flagged actions), and Shortcuts actions that have been re-written (<strong>Add TaskPaper<\/strong>, <strong>Find Projects<\/strong>, and <strong>Find Tags<\/strong>) or re-written and renamed for clarity (<strong>Add Action<\/strong> and <strong>Find Actions<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get Database Object Result from Input<\/strong> required manipulating a JSON file, so we&rsquo;ve replaced it with  <strong>Get Action<\/strong>, <strong>Get Folder<\/strong>, <strong>Get Perspective<\/strong>, <strong>Get Project<\/strong>, and <strong>Get Tag<\/strong>, all of which accept OmniFocus URLs you can generate in-app using the <strong>Copy as Link<\/strong> command.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>With this update, our Spotlight integration has been completely rewritten, and will now show your actions, action groups, projects, folders, tags, default perspectives, and custom perspectives&#8230; no matter which device you&rsquo;re using!<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>We have added Mac-exclusive support for custom fonts, along with a list of Omni-selected system fonts that work well, and an updated slider which supports a wider range of sizes (from 9 to 42 point).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It seemed to increase the font size after I updated the Mac app, but there are now more size options than before, so I was able to get it back to where I wanted and could actually go down to 9pt if desired.<\/p>\n<p>The Mac app continues to be just about perfect.<\/p>\n<p>The iOS app has improved a lot since the rewrite, and really the only serious issue I have is that the numbers on the perspective badges still sometimes don&rsquo;t match the number of actions shown in the list. The scrolling isn&rsquo;t as smooth as before the rewrite.<\/p>\n<p>The watchOS app continues to be frustrating. Even with Bonjour syncing, it will often take 30 seconds to sync a single to change to a single action, during which time the app is not responsive. And syncing still only ever works when I manually launch the app, so the number shown on the complication is almost always stale. I wonder whether this is any better in watchOS 11, which my watch can&rsquo;t run.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/20\/omnifocus-4-3\/\">OmniFocus 4.3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"omnifocus-4-5-update-2025-01-06\">Update (2025-01-06): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/releasenotes\/omnifocus-mac\">OmniFocus 4.5.1<\/a> fixes a bug in the watch app that would cause it to get permanently out of sync when Phone Sync was enabled. This means that I can now leave that option on, which really helps the sync speed, though it&rsquo;s still slower than I&rsquo;d like if I don&rsquo;t regularly launch the watch app.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orion Protonentis (release notes): There are all-new Shortcuts actions (Complete Action, Complete Project, and Find Folders), Shortcuts actions that have gained additional powers (Today&rsquo;s Forecast now supports due, deferred, tagged, and flagged actions), and Shortcuts actions that have been re-written (Add TaskPaper, Find Projects, and Find Tags) or re-written and renamed for clarity (Add Action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-12-11T20:38:13Z","apple_news_api_id":"5b0edc08-953e-4710-9c1b-9725dae3cc1e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-01-06T21:44:27Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AWw7cCJU-RxCcG5cl2uPMHg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2321,26,30,32,2598,526,1686,1042,269,2403,2603,2535,1212,2394,2147],"class_list":["post-46132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-17","tag-iosapp","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-15-sequoia","tag-omnifocus","tag-shortcuts","tag-spotlight","tag-syncing","tag-visionos","tag-visionos-2","tag-visionos-app","tag-watchos","tag-watchos-10","tag-watchos-app"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46132"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46331,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46132\/revisions\/46331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}