OmniFocus 2 Reviews – Page 4
5/5 rating based on 147 reviews. Read all reviews for OmniFocus 2 for iPhone.
OmniFocus 2 is free iOS app published by The Omni Group
Single context limit is serious shortcoming
TType
Omnifocus is a complex tool with many attributes. But until they implement multiple contexts, or tags, I do not recommend anyone start down the Omnifocus path. Also, WebDAV syncing can be a lot of work (if you want to keep your data on your server) with limited help from Omni. Mine took days to get back up and running.
Phenomenal
Comma Club
Not only is the app a must have to fully utilize your “2nd brain” the support for the app is great as well. The email support team is very prompt and professional and truly look to help solve any issues you may encounter. I recommend this to anybody and have already had several personal friends of mine start utilizing this system. Thank you to the omnigroup for continuing to provide a great app and service
The best tool to help manage your life
Ehler4
OmniFocus is fully worth the price tag on iOS and macOS. While things that other apps can do might sound nice on paper, they wind up encouraging habits that make a to-do app unmanageable. OmniFocus reaches the perfect balance between great features and not getting in the way.
Perfect for GTD
chokoboii
This app is the ultimate app for GTD folks. I use this app obsessively and is my most used app. I can't live without it!
Needs Printing Functions
Ardneh
This would be an editor choice app; if only, one could easily print project information and other reports from it. ☹️
Solid but needs an update
cmhall8
I’ve been using Omnifocus exclusively for close to 3 years on iOS, and about a year and a half ago added the desktop app. It’s an extremely powerful program, one of a kind really, but I’ve recently switched to Things 3 for the following reasons: 1. Just too many taps to add a task. Easy enough to add to the inbox, but to actually set a due time, the iOS version still uses that old scroll wheel for setting the date. To compare, Things 3 has a small calendar icon which when pressed pops up a view of the current month, where you can then just select the date. So much smoother and easier. 2. Changing the order of tasks I want to accomplish for that day. Maybe other i people don’t work this way, but when planning my day I like to list tasks in the order that I plan to work on them. In Things 3 you can just long-press on a given task and reorder as you would like. The only way I’ve seen to accomplish the same in OF is to actually assign a time to each task (again just too many clicks, etc). I had actually emailed OF support about this soon after they released v2. As usual they were very responsive but just said that it was a feature that they would consider. 3. When Omni released version 2 with the new “Forecast” view, I thought it was amazing and this feature alone was enough to keep me using OF. However the “Upcoming” view in Things 3 is just more usable to me as it has more data on a single screen. Also it allows me to take a longer look into the future while “Forecast” only shows the next 5 days or so, and to see the details of on of these five days you have to click on that day (of course). In summary, there are still several things that OF does better than Things. For example, OF perspectives certainly provide more power. However, I think you can go overboard in setting a lot of this stuff up, to the point that you’re spending too much time managing your to do software rather than actually knocking stuff out. The tags in Things provide more than enough for what I truly need when it comes to creating custom perspectives/views. It was a difficult decision for me to switch, because I have so much respect for Omnifocus and what it does, but in the end the streamlined usability and ample power of Things 3 was enough. I will be keeping my eye on OF however to see how they continue to develop.
Get ready to buy this twice
davdphotography
You have to buy the iOS version separately from the Mac version. It’s not obvious before hand and you find out after the fact. It would be awesome if they just offered a subscription model and gave you access to both Mac and iOS. I’m moving over from Wunderlist and that was their business model. Even Evernote does a subscription. There is a learning curve but some cool features.
Closest to ideal I’ve used
Wolverineguy
Omnifocus beats most other apps I’ve used and is almost perfect. Obviously, collaboration is a huge thing missing, but I also wish the interface was a bit easier to navigate. I’d like to be able to sort items within projects by due date within perspectives (and it’s possible that you can and I’m missing it, but it appears a bit random to me). I’m loving the Mac version: wish there was a bundle price for both the Mac and iOS versions.