Posted on Wednesday May, 28 2008 | 1 Comment

OmniFocus Continues to Thoughtfully Enhance Life: Release by Release

On May 14th, I upgraded to Omnifocus 1.0.2 and this particular release caused an inner-nostalgia for the days of yore, when OmniFocus was a tiny Alpha (try a few months ago). This was mostly because of the time sync updates with iCal and the code signing for Leopard. The updates that lit my fire are: Interface:

Improved OmniFocus' memory of which windows were open the last time you used it. (OmniFocus used to sometimes open windows that you'd previously closed, or forget their current position or size.)
Right- or control-clicking on an item now changes the keyboard focus to that item before bringing up the contextual menu. This ensures that all the items in that contextual menu will be validated against the appropriate target item.
The reset button on the view bar should show up when making changes while a perspective is active.
Remove contextual menu items that were not applicable to sidebar items.
When a chosen keyboard shortcut is already in use by a menu item, we now present the full path that leads to that menu item.

Misc

The code used in OmniFocus is now signed for Leopard's benefit. (For more information, see Leopard's code signing release notes.)
Focusing on a project now saves any edits that are in progress.
When synchronizing with iCal, we now set an appropriate local time to incoming dates without times. This should help solve synchronization issues for people in New Zealand who are using daylight savings time (where the local date differs from London's date when it's noon in London). It also means that we'll apply the default due time setting from Data Preferences to items created in iCal. (VERY HAPPY ABOUT THIS ONE)
The online help now correctly indicates that you hold down Option to copy a file rather than linking to it when dragging.
Added logging to the Mail Rule processing script so that it's easier to for users to determine whether or not it's getting called by Mail.

Lastly, the release mentions in it's overview that:

"Over the last few months, most of our attention has been focused on OmniFocus 1.1, where we've been adding support for synchronization, and on writing OmniFocus for the iPhone. We plan to release both OmniFocus 1.1 and OmniFocus for the iPhone in late June (if they're ready!)."

Note: I think I may be making the jump to the iPhone (once they're ready).