[wilsonng]

From an IT department standpoint, it is often preferred to minimise network traffic.

My department boss wanted me to set his Outlook to query once every minute. The IT department came in and reset it to every 30 minutes. They didn't want EVERYONE in the company to be sending out mail queries every minute and possibly overburden the network.

If OmniFocus were to sync every time there was a change, you might just be creating busy traffic over your network and the internet. I don't know if it is syncing the whole database or just minimal changes.

I guess it might be easier if OmniFocus was a web based solution. I imagine a web based solution would be faster. I can imagine gMail being a faster solution as a web based app instead of a local app. I'm just guessing from what little I know...