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Originally Posted by smudge
are you really saying that I can sync OF on my iPhone with my desktop on local network without any of the webDav or mobileme stuff? I don't need to sync every hour away from my desk - just morning and evening at my desk would be great and would make OF perfect for me.
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Uh, no, that's not quite what is being said, at least not for the current software. Eventually, that should be the case, but you can't do it yet.
What is apparently in the works is support in the desktop version so that an iPhone OmniFocus on the same WiFi network can sync directly without having to have a MobileMe (or other WebDAV server) account. There's been some interest in having iPhone OmniFocus sync directly over the USB cable like iTunes does, but Apple doesn't allow 3rd party developers access to that conduit, which is why Omni was forced to build the current WebDAV-based scheme. That road has proved bumpier than anyone expected, I suspect :) The good news is that presumably with everything under their control, Omni will be able to make the standalone WiFi sync server work well before it ships, instead of having to go through this painful discovery process again.
What the original poster and Ken and Lizard and I were talking about is how one would go about setting up this upcoming WiFi service if you didn't have a WiFi network already in place. Sorry to get your hopes up!