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Originally Posted by tah View Post
This is why quicken added classes a long time ago. Obviously OF needs the same (people in this case). Can't see how OF works cleanly unless you are single and work alone.
None of the team at Omni works alone, so we feel this need as well: but collaboration wasn't and isn't our focus in OmniFocus v1.x. We wanted to start with the fundamental personal workflow, so OmniFocus v1.0 was designed for individuals who work on their personal task lists on a single computer, and OmniFocus v1.5 extended that design to support individuals who work on their personal task lists on multiple devices (multiple computers, iPhone, iPod touch).

Our focus is shifting, however: OmniFocus 2.0 is being designed to support collaboration between teams who work on shared projects (without forcing them to share a common list of all their projects and contexts). It's also being designed to optionally integrate with OmniPlan 2.0, so a project manager can visualize and manage the entirety of a complex project (without overwhelming the viewpoint of each individual team member).

For now, what I do in OmniFocus is to have each team member maintain totally independent databases (rather than trying to synchronize them), and we delegate tasks and report status updates to each other using other techniques (email, meetings, etc.) rather than trying to have those changes automatically synchronized.

Last edited by Ken Case; 2009-04-27 at 07:00 AM.. Reason: Added a paragraph explaining my current collaborative workflow