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2010-10-27, 06:56 PM
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2010-10-27, 07:23 PM
I've attached two quick image versions I did. One of them has the pen icon enlarged to match the size of the Inbox, the other has the Inbox shrunken down to match the original size of the pen icon.
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2010-10-27, 09:24 PM
It's funny, the icons don't bother me at all, but have a look at how "Today 10/27" spills out of the edges of the box in the Forecast view — now that really bugs me! The icons were a conscious choice, but it is hard to believe this is, and I bet if OmniFocus for iPad had been a few months later, this wouldn't have made it into the shipping product.
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2010-10-27, 11:24 PM
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As I said, these days I try to spend the least amount of time in OF for planning and reviewing and more time getting things done. So, I try not to focus on the areas don't contribute to my planning/reviewing. OF allows me to do this with minimal distractions or without "forced" work-arounds due to lack of features or incomplete implementations in other programs. Ken
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Not every element inside every chunk of screen has to line up with some other element in an adjacent part of the screen. Buttons have borders so they can align properly regardless of what the contents do.
Just because the Inbox button has text - to help differentiate it from the other "tap this and show me a list of items" areas on the screen - doesn't mean that the New Item button needs text, too. Tap that button one time and you realize it does something different. Returning to your original point... As gopi's screenshots illustrate, trying to make the yellow portions of each button "line up" or "match" produces a quick entry button that's crowded by the borders in one case, and an inbox counter that's vertically challenged and looks bad in the other. We understand you'd prefer something different here doodiebrad, but whatever time we spend making a change here could be used working on the other things which larger groups of customers have told us they want. We got a small number of passionate emails telling us that the new icons and art we added to the iPhone app a while ago were a huge step backwards. If they shouted the loudest, should we have listened? :-)
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2010-10-28, 07:26 PM
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2010-10-28, 07:35 PM
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2010-10-29, 12:13 AM
I like having immediate access to the Inbox and to add a new task from anywhere, it means I can do it without losing my flow of where I was.
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2010-10-29, 12:20 AM
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Bottom line, does OmniFocus provide a GTD solution which works for me? Yes Is it uncluttered and easy to use? Yes Would the UI improvements suggested here make it easier to use? IMHO No OF is not an impulse buy, if someone spends $40, they're going to take the time to learn how to use the App, and anyone who already does GTD will pick it up easily.
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2010-10-29, 06:41 AM
Hey, didn't mean to ignore you. Your modifications are nice, but they only address the difference in pixel height. Not the generic nature of the icons, nor the inconstancy of text + icon in one and only icon in the other. Thanks for trying.
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