So, at last I got my Iphone and Omnifocus, and thus the possibility to have one system for all my todo and GTD needs across platforms.
Overall, Omnifocus is very nice. It does everything you want it to do. It syncs with my mac through mobileme, and that is the killer value I wanted. One system to rule it all...
But it has a couple of problems, that I find annoying, especially considering the price. It is among the most expensive Iphone apps.
It's still in beta! You are actually participating in Omnigroups development phase. This means you're risking your vital data. I would be in deep trouble, should I loose my todo-data. This has happened to some users! So beware! Daily builds and upgrades is part of the iphone omnifocus experience.
It's rather slow! When opening, it loads everything, and it really takes quite a long time. I tend to leave Omnifocus running when putting my iphone to sleep. This lets me start my iphone in omnifocus and capture stuff to the inbox faster. I would love a quick fast capture app, to put stuff into the inbox, without loading and syncing and whatnot. Speed is of the essence, when you want to capture something.
Mobileme syncronization is expensive. I'm not a big mobileme fan. In my view it's just a pricey bundling of services pioneered by others. It's the one product category where Apple isn't innovating. So I would love a simple way to sync my data without the mobileme webdav. Perhaps some of you out there have ideas.
All in all, it works. But it isn't the power-experience you have come to expect from the makers of OmniOutliner, OmniGraphle and OmniFocus for mac. It works. But it didn't blow me away.
- Jens Poder
I have just downloaded OmniFocus to test it in an unlicensed version. My first reaction has been joy. I normally use Remember the Milk for my tasks / todo's, but I feel I need a stronger, more sofisticated GTD tool for my task management.
I haven't tested OmniFocus too much yet, but I fear, that I will run into synching problems, as I work on several computers and synch via MobileMe. And on some projects I will surely also need to be able to cooperate with other team members in organizing projects and actions, and I don't really see, how OmniFocus can help me here.
I am considering testing some of 37signals' applications, notably their Backpack. Have you any experience with Backpack in comparison to Remember the Milk or OmniFocus?
Hi Mikael
I used remember the milk for some time. It's great. The only reason I use OmniFocus for Iphone, is the great MAC-version and the integration.
OmniFocus for MAC is a really well-creafted GTD app. It allows you to capture all your stuff into a system, but still have nice lean filtered Next Action lists. If I weren't so tied into OmniFocus for MAC i wouldn't use the Iphone app.
Backpack is really nice for team collaboration, but I haven't tried it out on a mobile platform. But then again, you didn't mention anything about Iphones. So perhaps you're just looking for something for your computer? As a web-app I think it lacks the fast-capture possibility of other apps.
Another online todo-manager I really like i todoist.com made by a danish programmer.
Nice blog at incube by the way. Thanks for stopping by.