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Originally Posted by Ken Case
an incremental backup (such as the backups Time Machine will make in Leopard) has to make a complete copy of your entire database even if you only changed one record.

We wanted OmniFocus to be able to read and update your data quickly, so that we'd have fast launch times and fast save times—particularly because (unlike our other applications) we wanted to automatically and immediately save every edit. This suggests we should use SQL. But we also wanted our data format to be extensible and efficient to back up, which suggests we use XML.
Now that's just freakin' cool! Nice job on doing it right from the ground up. I did notice that I never had to save anything. It makes me feel extremely safe that I won't loose a lot of data if something happens to the computer or application.