OmniFocus, the Getting Things Done productivity tool, is finally out of Beta and officially 1.0.
With the help of productivity whiz Ethan Schoonover, aka Merlin Man, OmniFocus is an unassuming yet highly effective piece of software. It gives you limitless possibilities to organize and manage your notes. First plan your projects and actions, then set them in contexts, whether by date or by topic. Features can be added, removed and shifted around as you like. The Perspectives feature is great to save all your custom settings a click.
The folks at Omnigroup have really worked on interaction, and integrated OmniFocus to Mac apps like Mail, Spotlight and iCal. The program is also built so that notes taken anywhere, whether in an email, a document or another note taking app, can be effortlessly integrated in OmniFocus. Another handy little feature is SmartMatch. With this method you can quickly access or edit notes or parts of notes in a few keystrokes. Saves you a considerable amount of time.
While OmniFocus is a highly flexible application and even though you can use it whatever your style of project management, it still is very GTD centric. If you don't particularly like that method then you might not adjust to it. Another point: at $79.95 it's a pretty expensive piece of software, but considering the level of innovation put into it we think it's worth it.
OmniFocus is the perfect organizer for GTD afficionados.
