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taylorluker
2007-12-03, 11:55 PM
Wait a second, can't you currently get third party apps on the iPhone? YES, YOU CAN!!!! Forget this complicated web interface business. I simply can NOT wait until a few months after the February SDK or a OmniFocus 2.0 release to truly get OmniFocus on my iPhone!

The real question is:

WHY HASN'T SOMEONE ALREADY DEVELOPED A HACK TO HAVE OMNIFOCUS ON THE IPHONE?!?!?!?!?

There is no need to wait 2+ months!

http://popsci.typepad.com/how20blog/2007/11/more-info-on-ip.html
Richard Flynn
2007-12-04, 01:02 AM
You’re right, of course, there are already third-party apps on the iPhone and iPod touch. However, I am yet to see any application which successfully does any desktop/handheld syncing other than that provided by Apple in iTunes, viz. contacts, calendars, bookmarks, photos, videos, and music. So it would be all very well for someone (Omni Group or someone else) to develop a handheld OmniFocus, but it would be pretty pointless—IMHO—if it couldn’t sync with the desktop application.
stmpjmpr
2007-12-04, 03:36 PM
I simply can NOT wait until a few months after the February SDK or a OmniFocus 2.0 release to truly get OmniFocus on my iPhone!

Sounds to me like you're not a good candidate for using unfinished/beta software.
Young Daniel
2007-12-04, 04:11 PM
ha ha ha ha...this thread is funny. I second the demand...make an iphone app NOW!!! I don't care that the initial product isn't even in beta yet. I want a perfect program and a perfect iphone app with perfect sycing and every other feature I want done NOW!!! There is NO reason why I have to wait to have everything I want.
CatOne
2007-12-04, 05:16 PM
Hey, there's no delayed gratification these days. NOW is the word, even if it's a hack today and has to be a total rewrite in 2 months. Spend the time!

Oh, and if you get too excited, there's Ritalin to enhance your focus. And wet-naps to clean off the drool from the Ritalin. And moisturizer to cure the chapping from the wet-naps.
Journey
2007-12-05, 08:54 AM
Hey, there's no delayed gratification these days. NOW is the word, even if it's a hack today and has to be a total rewrite in 2 months. Spend the time!

Oh, and if you get too excited, there's Ritalin to enhance your focus. And wet-naps to clean off the drool from the Ritalin. And moisturizer to cure the chapping from the wet-naps.

OMG -- coming from the Windoze side of things (back to the Mac, I abandoned it in 1996 when Apple was floundering).....

Anyway, companies like Palm, still have their desktop software in beta for Vista. Total incompetance.

When I expressed dismay about products not being Vista compatible upon release, my Windows (Dell) newsgroup told me that apps usually take months after the release of a new OS. Well, when I was a computer professional that would be unacceptable.

But iPhone NOW is totally unrealistic.
sundevil67
2007-12-06, 01:31 PM
I too am dying for a viable iPhone interface that does not rely on a web-based solution...but in the meantime, I just had a thought. I am primarily using iGTD, but this should work with OmniFocus as well if it is synchronizing with iCal & .Mac. Check out the following site: http://iphoneigtd.com/

Enter your .Mac login....

The big problem is that it is read-only, and you can't update tasks on the fly, but you can see 'em.
Jon
2007-12-16, 12:52 PM
The way I think the iPhone should sync is they way everything else syncs with the iPhone to a device. Then .mac (or other techniques) can sync multiple computers.

The way (for me) that the whole GTD approach works is by being able to get things instantly into a list for processing. My iPhone is always handy where I might not have my desktop or laptop immediatly accessible like in the car.

Using Jott helps but is not really a substitute for a tool for the iPhone. I have a context called iPhone as well.
al_f
2007-12-16, 10:50 PM
The way I think the iPhone should sync is they way everything else syncs with the iPhone to a device. Then .mac (or other techniques) can sync multiple computers.

I'm still undecided on whether I'd prefer a standalone iPhone version of OF or just to be able to use ToDos on the iPhone and keep using the OF-iCal syncing as it is now. I suspect part of what Omni are waiting for is to see whether Apple implement a ToDo interface on the iPhone or not.
Jon
2007-12-17, 05:20 AM
I have found iCal todos and sync with OF or iGTD not satisfying. That is why I have often pressed for independence of the two. Besides the todo functions of a calendar program really are not up to a representation of a GTD app. So I would still want OF on the iPhone even if they had an iCal todo list for the same reason I want OF.
Ken Case
2007-12-17, 05:42 AM
I suspect part of what Omni are waiting for is to see whether Apple implement a ToDo interface on the iPhone or not.

Oh, sorry if we haven't been clear about this! What we're waiting for right now is the iPhone (and iPod Touch) SDK, which Apple is planning to release in February.

We'd love for Apple to add support for To Dos on the iPhone in the meantime—but even if (or hopefully when) they do add that support, we still want to do an iPhone version of OmniFocus that lets you view your actions by context, etc.
brianogilvie
2007-12-17, 05:57 AM
I think you've been clear, but the forums have exploded since the public beta....

I'm looking forward to the iPhone/iPod Touch version of OF. It's one of the few things that could make me buy one.
Forward Thinker
2007-12-17, 02:56 PM
I don't think there's much doubt that many people would line up to buy OF for iPhone. I would!
danz013
2007-12-17, 06:57 PM
I have found iCal todos and sync with OF or iGTD not satisfying. That is why I have often pressed for independence of the two. Besides the todo functions of a calendar program really are not up to a representation of a GTD app. So I would still want OF on the iPhone even if they had an iCal todo list for the same reason I want OF.

Agreed. Thats all I need. an iPhone client.

Taking out my laptop to see what I could be doing whilst on the tram, walking to work etc is just not feasible. These GTD really need a mobile companion to complete them.

Realistically, It would be nice to be able to have them sync over various computers too, but I guess that would mean we need lots of licenses.
danz013
2007-12-17, 06:59 PM
Oh, sorry if we haven't been clear about this! What we're waiting for right now is the iPhone (and iPod Touch) SDK, which Apple is planning to release in February.

We'd love for Apple to add support for To Dos on the iPhone in the meantime—but even if (or hopefully when) they do add that support, we still want to do an iPhone version of OmniFocus that lets you view your actions by context, etc.

:D You've made my day. I'm going to go ahead and buy the program right now.
al_f
2007-12-17, 10:51 PM
Oh, sorry if we haven't been clear about this! What we're waiting for right now is the iPhone (and iPod Touch) SDK, which Apple is planning to release in February.

We'd love for Apple to add support for To Dos on the iPhone in the meantime—but even if (or hopefully when) they do add that support, we still want to do an iPhone version of OmniFocus that lets you view your actions by context, etc.

On the other hand, you could say why bother going to all the effort of writing an iPhone version of OF (and sacrificing the storage space on the device) when there's already a sync mechanism in place from iCal to iPhone and you can see your actions by context by assigning each context its own calendar in iCal. You could even do capture on the phone by having an Inbox calendar that syncs with the OF inbox. Of course that's assuming they're going to add multiple calendar support to mobile iCal, but it's a logical next move really since loads of people have commented on the lack of this feature on the iPhone.