

Then there is the organizing power of OmniOutliner: you can take any node and indent or outdent it. If I’ve broken a book review down into parts, for example, I can just collapse the sections I don’t want to see at the moment: Once you’ve gotten your outline going, being able to fold and unfold (collapse and expand) entire parts of the outline is a huge asset. It’s not as intuitive as just opening a blank Word document and typing, but it’s simple enough to open an outline and start writing. Getting content into OmniOutliner is fairly easy. On this and all images in the post, click or tap to enlarge
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Right away the Mac and iOS apps take you to a templates screen so you can get started without delay: There are multiple other uses for the app–I’ve made good use of it in sermon preparation, as you’ll see below.
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Notifications have had an overhaul - gone are the days where you get pinged as something goes from "hell being about to break loose" to "apocalypse", you can now set up a series of notifications for a task. OmniFocus 2 lets me dismiss the notification. OmniFocus 3 here lets me View Location, or View Actions. At first glance this seems like it is less information - but force touching or 3D touching the notification (depending on which device you're on) gives us a lot more choice. The watch notifications are exactly the same. OmniFocus 3 shows you the name of the tag, and how many tasks are available to you. Omnifocus 2 shows you the name of the context, the first task, and the number of other tasks available. Here on the top you see OmniFocus 3, and below it you see OmniFocus 2.

The notifications have had some changes made to them as well. Search can now happen from any view, just by pulling down on the tasks list. The Project InspectorĪnd of course these changes are present on the iPad as well. You can set what you want to see and hide by default - so if you never use locations in tags (or contexts as they are in OF2) you can hide them. The inspector for tasks, tags, and projects has received some updates. Of course, if you want multiple tags that's what perspectives are for. This might be very handy if you have lots of #waiting on tasks which you need to be on top of, or if there's a particular area you need to focus on. This is purely based on the due time of a task and the time of the calendar event.Ī new feature is the ability to have a tag displayed in the forecast view. There have been some changes to the Forecast view as well - primarily the interleaving of tasks and calendar events. You can now have a multipane view, this means you can have the traditional Home Screen on the left, tasks in the middle, and the inspector (detailed view of a task, project or tag) on the right - or you can have any combination of these three. To make things clear, I have the dark theme on OF3, and the light theme in OF2 - and I've tried to do screenshots to let you compare the two easily. The app isn't finished yet, but here are some of the features which you might enjoy. I'm fortunate enough to have been let into the very early OmniFocus 3 Beta.
