[Ken Case]

Originally Posted by endoftheQ

If your iPad gets broken, lost or stolen you won't have any access to your data until you replace it. Although you can back-up your data via Omni's server, until you buy a new iPad that data is inaccessible as currently there is no web interface.

If you're ever stuck without the ability to run OmniFocus, our tech support ninjas (omnifocus@omnigroup.com) would be happy to help you recover your data and export it to a format you can use on whatever devices you still have available. OmniFocus for Mac has built-in support for exporting lists of tasks as HTML (for viewing in a web browser), CSV (for spreadsheets), and plain text (for anything else).

Another approach might be to use Spootnik. It was designed to sync OmniFocus with BaseCamp, but you can also use it to simply access your synced OmniFocus database from a web browser.

Likewise anything you capture within OmniFocus (such as pictures or audio on the iPhone) are locked into the App, there isn't an easy way to get them out.

Actually, there is an easy way to get them out: you can email a task from OmniFocus 1.0 for iPad, and the email message will include all of the task's attachments.

Additionally, OmniFocus 1.1 for iPad will let you copy and paste attachments directly. (It was submitted to the App Store last week and is currently waiting for review.)

Also, without Print-to-PDF or a web interface, there isn't a way to get a hard copy of the contents of your database.

Even without OmniFocus for Mac, you could use Spootnik (as noted above) to print out a hard copy of your task lists.

Another issue might be that OF at the moment lacks any form of import/export (such as the ubiquitous OPML format) which makes adding large quantities of data and subsequently utilising it in another App a bit of a time consuming process, …

It's true that there isn't an easy way to import large quantities of data on the iPad at the moment.

However, you can quickly and easily capture individual tasks into OmniFocus using the "Send to OmniFocus" bookmarklet—which you can install yourself in Safari, and which is built into some third-party apps such as Twittelator.

As noted above, you can export individual tasks from OmniFocus by sending tasks as email. Also, a list of tasks with upcoming due dates can be automatically exported to a reminder calendar which you can access using any tool which understands the standard calendar format (including the iPad's built-in Calendar app).

(And, again, there's always Spootnik.)

…it's a chore even if you have the full desktop program!

I'm not quite sure what endoftheQ might be hoping for here, but in addition to the built-in export formats already noted (HTML, CSV, and plain text), the desktop app is also completely scriptable, which means people can write their own custom scripts to import and export from other formats on whatever schedule they wish.

Hope this helps!