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Originally Posted by whpalmer4
No need, I understand it quite well. Just about everything I put into OmniFocus is something I need or want to do but cannot do at the time that I think of it, so the 2 minute rule rarely applies.
The functional blocks are that I create the action, I look up the contact, and I make the call. Do I not have to do all those things in any relevant scenario? The savings here is only if Omni makes it easier to find the contact and extract the necessary info from within OmniFocus than by switching to the Address Book, copying it, switching back and pasting. All my iOS gadgets still run some 3.x flavor, so I don't know how much easier that is under 4.x, but I don't find it to be much of a chore under 3.x, so that puts an upper bound on how much time it will save me. If it is a repeating call, that small penalty gets spread out over a larger number of calls.
I think you are being a bit disingenuous. No one has said that Omni only looks at the customer requests database when deciding what to do next. It is merely one input. If Ken or whoever else is in a position to make such calls thinks that there is a feature they should build to advance the product, they are going to build it whether or not anyone has had the good sense to ask for it.
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Bill, I'm shocked and disheartened that you could even
think I was being disingenuous!
If Ken wants to give us location-aware alerts that trigger when you're 10-miles from the intended destination and travelling in the opposite direction, you're right, that's his choice. He also has to accept that those who bought OmniFocus for the iPhone as a premium-priced (shopping) list App may well look at much cheaper rivals with more features and look askance at OF. If after 4-5 years and contacts hitting the top spot back in July I doubt he'll be surprised if even some of the long-standing Members who are committed GTD'ers starting asking
Why Vote? and voice their complaints.
You'll also have to forgive me, I forgot that your contacts are rarely dynamic, I don't imagine Auntie Em's phone number has changed since 1939, but sadly we can't all live in rural Kansas!
I accept that my posts rarely make sense without examples, so here goes.
OK, at the moment, we have a team of six on location in India, four currently in Kerala and two in the Maldives. As their phone numbers and addresses change every few days, they email .vcf's to the rest of us so we have always have their latest contact details.
A couple of my Ferals are on gap years and they do likewise, we get emails as they change country with the location of their current fleapits and new SIM numbers. I have an action to call each of them once-a-month to find out how much dosh they need.
In a few days time, I'll be getting reminders to call a couple of dozen individuals to arrange Xmas lunches, I probably haven't spoken to most of them more than once or twice this year, so if I'd copied-and-pasted into OF, I'd then have to go back and make sure that info was up-to-date.
The young lady who does our buying sends us generic .vcf's (ie. catering) which means we get the best deal at any given point in time, but the actual company may well change two or three times a year.
etc. etc.
I certainly can't be bothered to constantly update OmniFocus to reflect all this by copying-and-pasting when I should simply be able to insert a contact into OF and when I click on it I'm taken straight to that name in my well-maintained address book!
It's a no-brainer. :)