If I were you I would wait a month or so for Omni Focus 2 for the Mac to be release. They are going to start a beta shortly after Mac World.
Keith On Mar 4, 2014, at 7:08 AM, Nicholas Parsons <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've heard that Omni Focus is pretty accessible on iOS. I'm a big fan and > user of task management apps, and I'v heard lots of good things about Omni > Focus from non-VoiceOver users. For any task management system to work for me > I have to be able to use it on my Mac. So I decided to download and trial > Omni Focus. > > I didn't trial it extensively, but it appears most things are doable with > VoiceOver, but there are a few issues that make it not a viable option. > > Firstly, VoiceOver performance is really sluggish in the app for some reason. > This just makes everything a pain and really slow, which is not what anyone > wants in a productivity app. This sluggishness is the main reason why I > didn't test it extensively. I'm running Mountain Lion with 16GB RAM. Does > anyone know what could be causing this sluggishness? > > Secondly, for tasks like selecting a project from a list of predefined > options the app doesn't seem to use a normal popup menu or anything like > that. You have to VO-SHIFT-SPACE and then interact with a table and then > VO-SHIFT-SPACE on the selection. You can't navigate by first letter among the > options in the table, and just using the arrow keys doesn't work either. This > might not be so bad normally, but with the extra sluggishness it's really a > bit of a pain. > > Just wanted to let anyone know, and if others have different experiences, > particularly better ones, I'd really like to hear. I really like Apple's > Reminders, but a more powerful task management app would be great. > > Cheers, > Nic > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
