Nice - but...

For the OUTRAGEOUS price of this app (I purchased both desktop and iOS) I expected a bit more. First I cannot indicate that an item has “not been started,” “In process.” You only have 2 statuses and no way to modify them. It’s either active or complete. I also wished that I could log time; to be able to hit a timer so that later I can determine that I spent 3 hours on a particular to do item and total my time for an entire project. This isn’t pitched as a list of chores or items to pick up from a grocery store—it’s supposed to be serious task management and as such, is poor in features.

On the positive: the interface is friendly enough and I can quickly add items but I can also expect that of much lower priced task management apps. There are a couple items I’ve not completely utilized that I think do set OmniFocus apart: Contexts—the ability to see items as they apply to the realm of a particular context (think of, Items to do when I am at home vs at work), also setting deferred or date due and the calendar that shows those items. Unfortunately, neither have been as critial as my complaint points above.

I do like the fact that I can print out my task list: I’ve had to do that a few times already to send to a client so that they knew I had all of their items in my list.

I have used a number of task managers over the years and all fall short. To Omni’s credit this is the BEST I have used so far; but I expected more. You can do better Omni!

ksdiguardian about OmniFocus 2