I once deleted a set of Contexts from OmniFocus this way (still not sure of the specific action or actions that did it). This can be a disaster, especially if you don’t immediately realize what’s happened. But if your first action after switching Spaces is to use a keyboard shortcut or press the Delete key, that will trigger an action by OmniFocus, not the application you’re looking at. Now, if your first action after switching Spaces is to click somewhere with the mouse, nothing bad is likely to happen because that initial mouse click will change the focus to the application you clicked on. This is a terrible user interface problem because it’s natural to believe that you’re working in the application you see in front of you. 2 Even though it isn’t on the screen, most keystrokes will be sent to it for interpretation and action. In particular, if OmniFocus is the frontmost application in Space 2 and I switch to Space 1, OmniFocus retains focus. But when I switch out of Space 2, things don’t always work right. If, for example, OmniFocus is the frontmost application in Space 2, it gets focus when I switch into Space 2. When switching to the Space with OmniFocus, the correct behavior is followed. 1 This is the right behavior because the application you’re looking at should be the application you’re working in. Here’s how things are supposed to work when you move from one Space to another: the frontmost application in the Space you are switching from is supposed to relinquish focus, and the frontmost application in the Space you are switching to is supposed to get focus. It’s simple, easy to remember, and keeps my screen relatively uncluttered. When I’m planning, I’m in Space 2 when I’m working, I’m in Space 1.
I keep OmniFocus and iCal, my planning applications, in Space 2 and everything else in Space 1. I have my Mac configured to use two Spaces. The focus hogging problem is related to Spaces. Sometime before my 60-day trial is up, I’ll try to do a sync to a regular WebDAV server if it works, I’ll probably drop MobileMe. The changelog shows that most of the changes have to do with syncing, so maybe the specific problems I had have been fixed.
Omni has been updating version 1.1 almost every day since the July 11 launch of OmniFocus for iPhone. I then signed up for the 60-day MobileMe trial and syncing has worked fine ever since.I couldn’t get syncing to work on two separate WebDAV servers.I could write a thousand words on the trials and tribulations I went through over my first couple of days with version 1.1, but I’ll spare you that. It has had two significant problems: a failure to sync through any service other than MobileMe, and a user interface problem I’ll call “focus hogging.” I can’t remember it ever crashing on me, and it definitely hasn’t lost any data. dmg file: Alpha.įor alpha software, OmniFocus 1.1 is quite good. Omni cutely calls this a “Sneaky Peek” build of version 1.1, but the more ominous name comes at the end of the. At present, the only way to do that is to use an unstable, “unreleased” version 1.1 of OmniFocus for the the Mac. If you use OmniFocus for the iPhone and OmniFocus for the Mac, you’ll certainly want the two task lists to stay in sync. Next post Previous post OmniFocus takes its name too literally
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