Hello and welcome back to another video it is Francesco here
So in today's video we are taking a look at the almost released
OmniFocus 3 for iOS which has been an application that's been in beta for a while now today
I will be using my iOS device
Sorry Android is I will be doing more Android features very soon. And that's because I do now have an Android phone
This is a moto G
6 play it's a really awesome device. I've downloaded lots of new productivity applications on it to review
And I do want you in the comments below to add a few more in
so if you do find
A few beauties put them in the comments below back to the omni's focus thing only focus 3 for iOS is available
I believe it launches today or tomorrow
Don't confirm on that one because I think they're still working out the details, but the beta has been out for a while
I know that people in the community have been on the beta. They've only had about a thousand people on it
And Rico has been on it and sharing some of his faults, which has been great
So today I wanted to give you my first impressions of OmniFocus 3. We're going to be showing the debate version on iOS
So let's jump over and try it out
So here we are with OmniFocus 3 for iOS on beta
And first things first, I think the application
The design looks a lot more sort of warmer in terms of its structure a lot more appealing
I would say New York monography looks a lot more attractive. I think what OmniFocus do have them?
This is not a comparison video. Although we'll probably do a comparison video. This is to only focus two versus three
The thing that I particularly like is that it looks a lot more simpler simpler than the previous version of it. I
Always used to say that OmniFocus 2
If you land on it, it does look quite complicated
If you're a brand new be not saying this doesn't look complicated
but it looks a lot more like the likes of todoist or things 3 than it does only focus -
So here we are
You've got a top forecast which has a all of your previous activity as well as your today and future activities
Of the upcoming week almost like upcoming seven days in todoist
You've got inbox where you can store any caption items
You got projects tags waking out context do certain tasks you can add flagged
So there's a maybe like important ones that you need to flank for later nearby
which is location services based and review - which gets added to your review in the process of
GTD going through and reviewing your sort of week as you go through which is quite nice
You've got some other perspectives called completed changed and you can also add a new perspective
So adding a new perspective is pretty easy going the bottom left hand corner and create the perspective
What's cool on this version is you can add a custom icon or one of their suggested icons
So what you can do is you can add filtered rules allowing you to give certain availability to an application
And also adding a new rule based on
Anything really having a due date being tagged whether it's in a project whether it has a search item term or anything like that
So it's very useful in terms of being able to filter it down and actually seeing what you see in that
Perspective as a perspective is essentially a layout or a window. You can see the presentation - you can group them and base them on
like whether they're grouped or whether they're project-based, which is quite nice so you can really go into detail on your
Customisation of the perspectives inside this one now, you can't downgrade it and even show a project path - which is very helpful
So that's quite easy to do from the home window
And of course that can be accessed on the bottom left hand corner in the center. You have the access to
Redo and undo stuff, which is quite cool. So that's a modification there
I'm guessing that's for anyone that makes any quick changes or modifications
And it's like oh my god. I need to change this
So with the bottom right hand corner?
you have our add to inbox but what I quite like about this is they've done the
Classic things to re-experience is they've actually made it
Actionable in terms of it visually being able to add stuff
So for example, let's say I want to add a task to inbox
All I have to do is drag over that one if I want to add the task to project or flagged then I can do
That pretty quickly just by dragging the plus icon over it and I can quickly do that and I go into the task creation view
So getting into the slightly more exciting stuff
the task creation view is very similar to what it was in the previous version OmniFocus -
But I feel like this is a nicer layout so you have the ability to add the title. So let's add the classic feed cat
Into there you can add information. So they've broken the amount of information note attachment so you've got tags
So first off I'm going to put the tag and this is maybe home
I'm going to put this out because that is the home item the cats not going to be wandering around in the street necessarily
I'm gonna add it to a project so you can add
Projects from here and you can even create a project from here I believe so that's pretty handy
Again, not sure whether it's the same so I'm going to cut home again because that could be in my home project off any average
Errands I need to do at home
You can also add a flag
So you can add a flagon and the icon appears in the top right-hand corner
with almost like a I think it's a it looks like a male logo sign, but entity allows you to
Flank, which is quite nice and that will appear and you'll feed a lot more
predominantly
It's something quite important to do
You can have a due date which is quite nice and the due dates really easy to answer if I added tomorrow at 5 o'clock
Leave that cat then
Then you can add notifications there. You can also view show more which gives you estimated duration. So
How long does it take?
Ten minutes to feed this cat and you can even add a defer to until date which is quite helpful and that's in case you
want to act like a
deferred date so if worst case scenario it gets to third till then and that's more of a GTV focus setup and something that I
Don't really use whatsoever. But you can add that you can also add repeat or you can click show less and you can actually
Open up modification settings to allow for
Notifications to appear that's all very handy. So jumping to the note element side of stuff that's central
You can add a note and you were able to do this in the last one
It's probably quite a helpful function for people wanting to add some more detail. You can also add photos and
Voice recordings which is quite cool inside of a task
So once you're happy with the task, you're like, okay, this is gonna get done
You can click Save and of course, that one didn't go into my inbox, so it wouldn't be there
so if I go to the for stop forecast view where you can view your
Tasks upcoming you can see here that on this Wednesday view
I've got one item to that day and that is feed the cat if I click him it gets slightly more complex to some extent
You can see all of the project details
and you can do a host of things at bottom you can actually
turn it or move it into a
project which is quite cool and that's done by the open that so you get to convert feed the cat into a deep project you
Can move it to another area?
You can delete it or even share it with other people which makes it a lot easier
So from this forecast view you can also do a range of things, too
you can actually tick the item off and that means it'll stay on there too, or you can actually click in and
see all the details or you can swipe across it and
Unflagging or even delete it or aunt more details from those gestures
now if I wanted to I could skip backwards and see the certain items at hand for yesterday and
I can take those off if it's relevant as you can see that number changes on the bottom of the item so you can actually
Forecast and see items and you can skip ahead as well to future dates
So, for example, I have the calendar stuff appear as well. So you can see birthdays very similar to how it
appears on on sorry on OmniFocus to also and things 3
Which is very helpful some other things about this forecast view
You can obviously go back and you can edit
It with bulk items, which is quite helpful
Or you can go to this view option at the top which gives you different viewing options, which can make life a lot easier
Especially when you are looking for more custom experience
now you can add the certain date later on which is quite helpful and we will obviously add all the details there or you can
Add to your inbox straight from now which makes life a whole lot easier
Now inbox is the secondary area. You can obviously add as many items as you want. You don't necessarily have to assign them
There's also a nice search bar at the top which makes things a lot easier
now if I go into projects I can see that home has one item and
It's very much more of a project view than it is very similar to what it was previously
and you can see here that
You've got obviously an item that you can get going with and and just to let you know. This is a lot more
Complicated if you want it to be and what I mean by complicated here is complex
You want you can learn OmniFocus I believe
Sweet set up have got a good course on OmniFocus, which will probably roll over onto the OmniFocus 3
But once you learn it, it becomes a whole lot easier
Now what quite like about
A task inside of this is that you can see that it is flanked and it is due tomorrow
The yellow appears and that orange appears in the top right hand corner where the tick icon appears
So it makes everything so much easier
So other elements of this experience you can also go into flagged and see all of your flagged items
And obviously add to it there
You can also go into nearby see any tasks that you associated to nearby which quite helpful
So for example if I went into shot and wanted to do stuff, this could be really great
you've also got review and this is an area where you can go in and sort of
Review items and make it a lot easier and that obviously will appear
Dependent on how you setup your sort of GTD experience inside of OmniFocus 3 now
I'm not really focusing too much in this review on the GTD side. So I know I'm gonna get a lot of comments about that
This is not necessarily that this is general feel and style of the application
I highly recommend this more for those who are wanting a more of a
Deeper to do this an application in terms of they know the process they know their setup
there may be using GTD or a more advanced experience and are able to
Sort of use OmniFocus for that now, of course
I mentioned the other perspectives have completed which is quite helpful
So you can see and view all of your completed items and their logbook to buy today, which is quite helpful
so there are a host of advanced settings inside of
OmniFocus 3 you have a range of stuff so there will be probably in-app purchases
Available, I believe this is the pro free trial version at the moment
But it does it will have more subscription-based stuff. Not sure what the pricing will be just yet. So
Other stuff you've also got sync availability color switching between dark pallets. And or
Automatically between dark and light mode
You also got organization with the cleanup option allowing you to clean up a send project tag or whatever like that
You can see due soon which means that you know
That can be clicked inside of the due date option and it will associate it to two days ahead which is quite helpful
So it sounds like a quick later button to some extent
you also got notifications on sound badges today and watch and as well as a plot privacy reminders and
some information about database hosting the attachments the backups and the ability to export on
CSV so in terms of this application being very complex. Yes it is. I
Highly recommend it for those who are looking for a bit more of an advanced experiments
So only focus three I believe will be available very soon
IOS, I'm assuming they're going to try and release it on the same time as a Mac
The application seems to be very similar to what it was
From my recollection of the application before and it just seems to be a bit more spruce ear and a lot more attractive in its
Approach to do's and I can imagine they will reflect this in the price. I think people are understanding that
They'll be able to get it on trial then on subscription very similar to Ulysses to some extent
Not like things sorry where you have to pay upfront which was previously only focused twos model
But let's see how it pans out because it totally could go the other way
Anyway, guys, I hope did you enjoy today's video?
Let me know in the comments what you think of OmniFocus 3 be great to hear your opinion
This was just a quick first impression. So again probably will be coming up with a OmniFocus review very very soon
And if I guys thank you so much for stopping by today. I hope you have a great day. Keep it up div
Time goes by and I'll see you guys very very soon Cheers