So Tim also asks, do we have some examples of tags that are not technically Contexts in the GTD world? For instance, a vacation tag, would that be different from a Context?ĭave: Sure. Tim: Yeah so, all of your existing Contexts from OmniFocus 2 will be preserved and will be exposed to you in OmniFocus 3 as tags, and if you're one of our TestFlight users in the coming months, or you happen to be using OmniFocus 2 and 3, side by side, after that, the first tag that you assign to any given task or project will sync back to OmniFocus 2 as the Context, but then you can continue to assign more tags in OmniFocus 3.īrent: Can you then change which is the first tag if you want to change the Context?īrent: Okay. So if you're already an OmniFocus 2 user, and you have Contexts, will those turn into tags in OmniFocus 3? Or what happens? Since Contexts are kind of a simple version of tags, but tags can do more.ĭave: Yeah I think the answer to Tim's question is yes, if you want them to be, and no, if you wanted more from Contexts.īrent: Cool. So one of our listener question from Tim Stringer is, is tag just another word for a Context? And the answer is yes and no. But they also open up this broader world of having multiple tags per task and adopting all new workflows that can come out of that as well.īrent: All right. So, a lot of the things that you're used to doing with your Contexts will still be around in OmniFocus 3 and you can absolutely continue to use tags as Contexts if that's what you want to do. In fact, we took a lot of the features that we had built in for Contexts and simply expanded on them for tags.
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So for people who are worried about things going away on them - which is a legitimate worry, we've seen software that does this - can tags do everything that Contexts did?
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So we think it's been a good way to not only continue to support the ways that people have worked with OmniFocus over the years, but also introduce some new way of doing things, of using the app and organizing your to-do's.īrent: Hm. And tags are much more of an industry standard, right? People recognize tags from other apps. There are other workflows that people like to use, there are maybe easier ways to get people up to speed on OmniFocus or introduced to the product or the app. We started out with OmniFocus being a very helpful tool for a lot of GTD-style methodologies, and we recognize that that's not how everyone works. Tim: Well, I think that tags really open up OmniFocus to a wider range of workflows, right. Why? And what does that bring that we didn't already have? So my first question is, why are we doing tags at all? We already have Contexts, which fit with the GTD methodology and it was good enough for OmniFocus 1 and 2 and now we're doing tags. We have a really lively private Slack channel for those testers and we're learning a lot.ĭave: Yes, I believe probably at the time we're taping that we're over 10 thousand sign ups now.īrent: And that's about the TestFlight limit?ĭave: Yeah it's a little tricky because we expect that not all 10,000 of those people will be iOS customers, so we won't necessarily run into the TestFlight 10,000 hard limit with the list that we have now, but I think that it's pretty sure that we're going to run into that limit.īrent: Mm-hmm (affirmative).
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The build is pretty rough, and they are being very patient, but we're getting lots of good feedback. Say hello, Tim.ĭave: We have a few dozen testers who had a build for a few weeks.
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This is a special episode where we talk about OmniFocus 3 and tags. In the studio with me today is Tim Ekl, engineer, and Dave Messent, OmniFocus product manager.
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