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Originally Posted by bankomeister
OG doesn't seem to think this feature important, but it's a deal breaker for me.
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Just because the feature isn't in the alpha version, I don't think that means OG thinks it's unimportant. In fact, I think the effort they put into hacking together the current partial solution suggests that they think it
is important. It's just a matter of priorities. They seem to see Perspectives, Email capture, and Printing as more important. I can understand that, since those are features of the core application. Every potential customer will use the core application. Only some of the potential customers need portable action lists; albeit it's likely a significant percentage of them do. My guess is that Omni is focusing on the core application and waiting to see if task management or applications on the iPhone change with the release of Leopard. I'd hate to see them put significant additional effort into a partial solution, only to find in another month that they can do true task syncing directly to the phone.
edasque, others have suggested the idea of multiple machines running OF simultaneously with data synchronization--search the forums for details. The central issue is that synchronizing independent changes to outlines is an extraordinarily difficult computing problem. The problem is simplified if only one of the machines manipulating the data is allowed to rearrange outlines. So, maybe something like the current iPhone interface could be hosted by an ISP somewhere, with data synchronization back to a master copy of your OF database. But it's unlikely that .mac would support that; it provides a very limited set of web hosting features.
Have you tried using the web interface from your laptop to connect to the running copy of OF on your desktop? That treats your desktop and the OF server and your laptop and iPhone as the clients. You would have limited capabilities on your laptop, but the system would be more stable and perhaps less of a hassle.