Thread: Siri capture
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Welcome to OmniFocus and to the forums, Blue!

You will need to open OmniFocus for iPhone in order to process those actions into your database. When we created the feature, we wanted to do something for all the folks who were emailing us about wanting to use Siri with OmniFocus for iPhone - and we wanted the reminders to be as reliable as we could possibly make them. Keeping the feature in the iPhone app helps the latter goal.

With the current approach, if someone files a reminder, they’ll either get it from OmniFocus (after capture) or from Reminders (before capture). Not launching OmniFocus doesn’t mean you’ll miss something - it just changes where the alert comes from.

Routing things through the Mac would introduce more opportunities for missed alerts than the current approach. The alert might appear on your Mac, but neither OmniFocus or Reminders would do anything on your phone…