Thanks for the tip!
On 6 Mar 2014, at 1:22 am, Keith Watson <tkwatso...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>> 
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