So when we went back to the Mac, we started from scratch designing an interface that feels at home on the Mac. Ken: Well, what we learned was that you couldn’t just take an interface from one platform and plaster it onto another platform and have it feel at home.
#OMNIFOCUS 4 MAC#
So tell me, how were you able to balance what you learned from the release of OmniFocus for iPad over to the Mac without conflicting with the traditional Mac experience? Ken: Thanks! The reception we received from the Macworld attendees has been really positive.ĭon: That is great news Ken. The screenshots look absolutely gorgeous. So that is OmniPresence, and of course the big news from this week is the debut of OmniFocus 2.ĭon: I am personally very excited about OmniFocus 2. I hope OmniPresence will surpass their expectations of being able to sync and share documents with their entire team. We are really excited about it, and we think this will really appeal to people that have been asking for automatic document syncing between OmniOutliner for the iPad and OmniOutliner for the Mac. So how it works is you create an account, and you select which folder you would like to sync, and that folder will be synced with the web server and accessible from your devices running Omni applications. On the Mac all the document syncing will happen through a menu bar tool we are releasing. In addition, we are open sourcing the work that we are doing so that other developers can use it in their apps as well. Of course, OmniPresence is not limited to enterprise customers: we see this appealing to anyone willing to host their own cloud syncing solution. Particularly for businesses that do not want to host their data on someone else’s cloud, we think this will be a great solution. We will still be providing the Omni Sync Server for people that will not want to run their own sync server. Users will be able to host their own clouds and access them from any device, wherever they are. The way we are doing it is not to hook it up into some backend proprietary service instead, OmniPresence talks to an open web protocol, so you will be able to run your sync server on any Apache web server.
OmniPresence is built to do automatic cloud document syncing between any device. We are also working on OmniPresence, which is our syncing technology. That should be coming in the next few months. This will be a big deal for people that work in a corporate environment and want to carry an iPad around with them right now they don’t have a good way to open up and use those documents. In OmniGraffle for iPad you will be able to open and work with Visio documents and in OmniPlan you will be able to work with Microsoft Project documents. Ken: Other projects we are working on include adding Microsoft Office compatibility to OmniGraffle and OmniPlan for iPad. It is not done yet – for example it doesn’t print yet – but we completely rebuilt the outlining engine to leverage more of the GPU, and we had to completely rebuild a lot of the features that were in Outliner 3 all over again.ĭon: So what other projects are you currently working on? OmniOutliner customers have been waiting so long I feel like anything I tell them right now, they will feel like, “Are you taunting me right now?” The feedback that we have received so far from the people in the private test has been really great they are really happy with the app. We haven’t made quite as much noise about OmniOutliner.
Right now we are working on OmniFocus 2 (which we debuted two days ago) and we also started privately testing OmniOutliner 4 last week. Ken: When we last spoke in 2012 we were just shipping OmniPlan for iPad and it finally gave us the opportunity to focus our attention back on Mac again, and to get back to so many of these projects we had to put on hold for so long like OmniFocus 2 and OmniOutliner 4. Ken and I discussed the upcoming versions of OmniFocus, OmniOutliner, their new OmniPresence technology, and also some great new iPad specific features coming to OmniGraffle and OmniPlan this year.ĭon: Ken, it is wonderful to speak with you again, I would love to hear about OmniFocus and the projects you have lined up for 2013. In the midst of The Omni Group’s hectic schedule of debuting exciting new Mac versions of some of their most popular software, including the highly anticipated OmniFocus 2, CEO Ken Case sat down with MacStories from the 2013 Macworld/iWorld event to tell us about some of the new products releasing this year.
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