OmniFocus Reviews

With OmniFocus I know what's important to do today, and which order to do it in. Tags are a lifesaver!

There is a steep learning curve that can be daunting for some people.

Complex project and task management has become more manageable, I have over 2000 tasks in OmniFocus and with tags and custom views I see what's relevant not an overwhelming list.

Ability to brain dump tasks and sort them out later. Refactoring tasks into projects, creating perspectives to see just certain kinds of tasks, and great search and filtering all make my more productive.

I wish there were more ways of filtering. For example, you can't filter for tasks that are due in a certain date range.

Try out Things as well, which has similar functionality. I find using Omnifocus Desktop plus the mobile app is a good pairing. I haven't tried the webapp version, but that might work well for some people.

How to manage everything I need to get done. Switching to an Omnifocus task management style helped me keep track of things I didn't even realize I should be tracking.

Omnifocus allows me to implement the Getting Things Done framework completely for my whole life.

There are no collaborative tools, so I can't share tasks easily with friends or coworkers.

I would recommend reading Getting Things Done by David Allen before starting with Omnifocus.

I'm able to quickly see what I could possibly do at any moment throughout the day.

Omnifocus allows me to implement the Getting Things Done framework completely for my whole life.

There are no collaborative tools, so I can't share tasks easily with friends or coworkers.

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What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Put short, OmniFocus thinks like I do. It's a platform that allows me to keep tasks and ideas together, to capture activities while they're unfolding, and to get a global picture of what's going on. It's a lifesaver.

Other than the fact that I haven't found the best way to use item tagging, there isn't much to put in the dislike category.

Consider how to use OmniFocus to improve users by groups. For instance, engineers, executives, and technical writers all stand to gain from using this product, but it would be easiest to roll this out to the user groups individually.

I'm using OmniFocus to manage the many spheres of my life, ranging from audit compliance at work to complicated hobbies to tracking my children's academic progress.

If you've been in the GTD (Getting Things Done) mindset, Omnifocus can keep you on track, whether your projects are simple or extremely complicated. All the details get gathered in one place, so you can see EVERYTHING that's coming up, and of course you get to set contexts for dealing with every task. Different perspective views allow you to view your to-dos by project, by context (now handled in Ominfocus 3 by tags), or my most-used view, is the Forecast View, which incorporates calendar items as well as tasks I've set. Deadlines are easily set and progress tracked. Data can flow in from wherever you have it: You can turn an email into a task in a click; notes from OneNote or Evernote can be linked to any task (and the links can be set in both directions -- go to your notes and research from an Omnifocus task, or click in the note to go back to the task). Reminders are seamless to implement, all your "stuff" is in one place so you can make sure nothing gets forgotten.

Not the easiest learning curve, but it does a lot, so I guess that's understandable.

If you have stuff coming from all directions, nothing beats Omnifocus for getting a handle on it all. If you have used GTD techniques before, you'll love it. There are plenty of good task managers, but none better. It does have a little bit of a learning curve, but it is well worth it in my view.

Numerous projects of all sizes can be managed in one place. We have people working with us in multiple countries and Omnifocus lets me track and proactively manage by the team member (or members), the project, the country, or overview the whole execution in one fell swoop. My personal projects are there, living happily along with everything else, and while they're easy to get to, they don't get in the way. I can certainly see the big picture at will, but can still have all I need at a click to focus exclusively on just one task, project or person. It's a convenience factor I simply couldn't live without.

Omnifcous helps our team stay organized and on track

We wish we could share projects and tasks with other team members.

Omnifocus helps us solve our day to day to do list. It helps us stay on track throughout the week!

Omnifcous helps our team stay organized and on track

We wish we could share projects and tasks with other team members.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?