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      <title>Introducing OmniFocus 2 for iPad!</title>
      <dc:creator>Ken Case</dc:creator>
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<p><strong>UPDATE: Our deepest apologies, everyone! OmniFocus 2 for iPad shipped with our test build expiration still in place, so it expired Friday evening. Version 2.0.1 was submitted Friday to fix the issue, and was approved Saturday afternoon. It will shortly be available as a free update in the App Store; if you&#8217;re not seeing it on your local device yet, please wait an hour or so and check again.</p>

<p>Once again, our sincerest apologies! The Omni Group has a no-questions-asked 30-day refund policy on all our apps. If you would like one, please contact <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></strong>.</p>

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<p><strong>Response timeline:</strong></p>

<ul>
<li><em>Friday, 5:46pm</em> &#8212; Issue first reported by a customer.</li>
<li><em>Friday, 6:11pm</em> &#8212; Ken (CEO) reproduces the problem and notifies the team, begins reviewing code with the team to identify where the problem lies.</li>
<li><em>Friday, 6:15pm</em> &#8212; The problem is found to be that the new iPad 2.0 app&#8217;s expiration logic is reading the iPhone app&#8217;s test build flag rather than its own, which is why the iPad app&#8217;s test flag was correct but its expiration happened anyway.</li>
<li><em>Friday, 6:17pm</em> &#8212; Team begins reviewing the 28 changes made to 2.0.1 since the initial 2.0 release to see whether they&#8217;re ready to include in an update. Determines that most are ready to go, but that the release has had insufficient testing and it will be safest and fastest to submit 2.0.1 with a single change fixing the expiration logic.</li>
<li><em>Friday, 6:23pm</em> &#8212; 2.0 tag is branched to form the basis of the new 2.0.1 build. (Former 2.0.1 branch renamed to 2.0.2.)</li>
<li><em>Friday, 6:25pm</em> &#8212; While engineers work on fixing the code, a public tweet is sent from @OmniFocus to tell our customers about the issue. Continue responding to all customers affected by the issue.</li>
<li><strong><em>Friday, 6:35pm</em></strong> &#8212; <strong>Fixed code checked into the 2.0.1 branch, 2.0.1 tag created and build started on build server.</strong></li>
<li><em>Friday, 6:37pm</em> &#8212; While build proceeds on the build server, start defining new release on App Store with release notes containing an apology and explanation.</li>
<li><em>Friday, 6:47pm</em> &#8212; Problem also fixed for the upcoming 2.0.2 release.</li>
<li><strong><em>Friday, 6:48pm</em></strong> &#8212; <strong>OmniFocus 2 for iPad pulled from the App Store until this is resolved.</strong> (The discounted Omni Productivity Pack will also be unavailable until this is resolved.)</li>
<li><em>Friday, 6:49pm</em> &#8212; New 2.0.1 build completes.</li>
<li><strong><em>Friday, 6:55pm</em></strong> &#8212; <strong>New 2.0.1 build signed and uploaded to the App Store.</strong></li>
<li><em>Friday, 7:12pm</em> &#8212; App Store processing completes, now waiting for review from Apple. Begin writing up request for an expedited review.</li>
<li><strong><em>Friday, 7:16pm</em></strong> &#8212; <strong>Expedited review request submitted to Apple.</strong></li>
<li><em>Friday, 7:20pm</em> &#8212; Updates posted to Twitter.</li>
<li><em>Friday, 7:44pm</em> &#8212; Email autoresponders for OmniFocus are updated to explain the issue and our support humans notified; some return from their Friday evenings to start responding to customer messages on Twitter and email.</li>
<li><em>Friday, 10:58pm</em> &#8212; Blog post updated to include an explanation of the issue.</li>
<li><em>Saturday, 1:27am</em> &#8212; Hundreds of individual responses sent to customers over Twitter and email.</li>
<li><em>Saturday, 6:25am</em> &#8212; Blog post updated to include this response timeline.</li>
<li><strong><em>Saturday, 12:34pm</em></strong> &#8212; <strong>The 2.0.1 update has finished App Store review! Should start showing as a free update in the next hour or so.</strong> Our apologies again, and thank you <em>so much</em> for your patience.</li>
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<p>How times change! When we introduced OmniFocus for iPad in the Summer of 2010, it was widely considered to have the best, most modern design of the three OmniFocus editions. So much so that when we <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/blog/debut-of-omnifocus-2">set about building OmniFocus 2 for Mac</a>, our top priority was to bring the design lessons we’d learned from the iPad app back to the Mac app.</p>

<p>But then Apple inspired us with iOS 7, and <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/blog/omnifocus-2-test-going-quiet">our priorities changed</a>. We completely redesigned <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/blog/iOS-7-and-omni-whats-new-whats-cool">OmniFocus 2 for iPhone</a>, then <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/blog/omnifocus-2-for-mac-available-now">OmniFocus 2 for Mac</a>. We started getting rave reviews for these new designs—and now, instead of constantly getting questions about how soon we would make the other editions match OmniFocus for iPad, those questions flipped to ask when we were going to update the iPad app to match the new designs in the other apps.</p>

<p>I’m very pleased to announce that the long wait is over—that (for the first time!) all three editions of OmniFocus have the same design language:</p>

<p><img src="/images/blog_images/Introducing_OmniFocus_2_for_iPad_-_Forecast.png" alt="Screenshot of the Forecast perspective" width="512px"  /></p>

<p><img src="/images/blog_images/Introducing_OmniFocus_2_for_iPad_-_Editor.png" alt="Screenshot of the editor" width="512px"  /></p>

<p>Beyond its new design, OmniFocus 2 for iPad offers <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/blog/new-omnifocus-extensions-for-ios-8">two great new iOS 8 extensions</a>, interactive notifications so you can immediately complete or snooze a reminder, improved searching, and background syncing. And, of course, all of the great features pioneered in the original iPad app, such as the built-in Forecast and Review perspectives.</p>

<p>It’s a great upgrade—but we didn’t stop there! On the Mac, one of the features we offer in the Pro version of OmniFocus 2 is the ability to go beyond the built-in perspectives by creating your own custom perspectives. Customers have often asked if we would ever provide similar capabilities for iOS, and I’m pleased to share that we’ve finally done just that, in the optional Pro upgrade to OmniFocus 2 for iPad:</p>

<p><img src="/images/blog_images/Introducing_OmniFocus_2_for_iPad_-_Perspective_Editor.jpg" alt="Screenshot of the Perspective editor" width="512px"  /></p>

<p>With Pro, you can create your own combinations of view settings, searches, and filters to see your work in exactly the right way. You can also arrange the top-level sidebar however you like, for quick access to your favorite perspectives.</p>

<p>Whether or not Pro is for you, we know you’ll enjoy all of the other new features OmniFocus 2 has to offer! <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/download/appstore/omnifocus-ipad">OmniFocus 2 is now available</a> for just $29.99, and <a href="http://support.omnigroup.com/omnifocus-2-ipad-pro-upgrade">its Pro upgrade is now available as an optional in-app purchase</a> for $19.99.</p>

<p>For those of you who purchased the first version of OmniFocus for iPad, we have a very special deal: we appreciate the support you’ve given us through the years, and we’re showing our appreciation in a very concrete way by giving you the $19.99 Pro upgrade for free when you purchase version 2. Thank you for your support through the years!</p>


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      <title>Introducing OmniGraffle 2 for iPad!</title>
      <dc:creator>Ken Case</dc:creator>
      <link>https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/entry/introducing-omnigraffle-2-for-ipad</link>
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      <dc:date>2014-09-17T07:50:00+00:00</dc:date>
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<p>Last summer Apple introduced a completely new design for iOS 7, and when they shipped iOS 7 in Fall we were ready with three new apps: <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/blog/iOS-7-and-omni-whats-new-whats-cool">OmniFocus 2 for iPhone, OmniOutliner 2, and OmniPlan 2</a>. With that work done, we turned our attention back to our Mac apps where we had several major updates to ship: <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/blog/omnigraffle-6-is-here">OmniGraffle 6</a>, <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/blog/announcing-omnioutliner-4">OmniOutliner 4</a>, and <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/blog/omnifocus-2-for-mac-available-now">OmniFocus 2</a>. Unfortunately, that left the last two of our iPad apps—OmniFocus and OmniGraffle—looking rather dated next to our other apps!</p>

<p>Well, I’m very pleased to announce that OmniGraffle 2 has now been completely redesigned to match the modern look of iOS:</p>

<p><img src="/images/blog_images/Introducing_OmniGraffle_2_for_iPad_-_Flowchart.png" alt="Screenshot of a flowchart document" width="512px"  /></p>

<p><img src="/images/blog_images/Introducing_OmniGraffle_2_for_iPad_-_App_IA_avec_Stencils.png" alt="Screenshot of App IA document with stencils" width="512px"  /></p>

<p>As part of this work we’ve introduced a new style system to make it easier to set and apply visual styles based on favorite settings or matching the styles of other objects which are already on the canvas. There’s a new full-screen mode which lets you hide the interface controls completely—great for presentations or any other time you want to focus on your own work rather than the app’s controls. You can easily search for stencils shared by the community at our free online <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/blog/welcome-to-stenciltown">Stenciltown</a> repository, or you can create your own stencils—using the built-in drawing tools to draw freehand shapes, or manipulating individual vertex points and handles to create Bézier curves:</p>

<p><img src="/images/blog_images/Introducing_OmniGraffle_2_for_iPad_-_Bezier_curve.jpg" alt="Screenshot of editing a Bézier curve" width="274px"  /></p>

<p>For those of you with lots of documents, we’ve significantly improved document management. All of your documents can be synced with the cloud as in version 1, but now you can also organize them into folders, filter by type, and search by name. With document templates, it’s easier than ever to hit the ground running on a new project—and your templates also sync with the cloud, which means you can easily share them with the rest of your team.</p>

<p><img src="/images/blog_images/Introducing_OmniGraffle_2_for_iPad_-_Document_Picker.jpg" alt="Screenshot of the new document picker" width="512px"  /></p>

<p>With all of the above, we think OmniGraffle 2 is an incredibly strong upgrade. But we didn’t stop there! OmniGraffle 2 also has an optional Pro upgrade which brings many professional features that were previously only available in our Mac app:</p>

<ul>
<li><strong>Microsoft® Visio® import/export</strong>: Collaborate with Microsoft Windows® users. OmniGraffle Pro imports the following Visio file types: Drawing files (.vsd, .vdx, and .vsdx), Templates (.vst, .vtx, and .vstx), and Stencils (.vss, .vsx, and .vssx). OmniGraffle Pro exports your drawings in .vdx format, which can be opened by Visio 2013 and earlier.</li>
<li><strong>Shape Combinations</strong>: Combine two or more objects on the Canvas to create custom shapes. Don’t like the combination you’ve made? That’s okay; you can also uncombine objects to restore them to their former selves.</li>
<li><strong>Shared Layers</strong>: Share layers with multiple canvases in the same OmniGraffle document.</li>
<li><strong>Tables</strong>: Merge two or more objects to create a table, and then resize the table to add additional rows or columns to suit your needs.</li>
<li><strong>Custom Data</strong>: Assign names, add descriptive details and notes, and add custom key-value data to every single object on the canvas—or to the canvas itself.</li>
</ul>

<p>Whether you choose the Pro upgrade or not, we think OmniGraffle 2 is an incredible upgrade—and we’re glad to finally be able to share it with all of you! <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/download/appstore/omnigraffle-ipad">OmniGraffle 2 is now available</a> for $49.99, and <a href="http://support.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle-2-ipad-pro-upgrade">its Pro upgrade is now available as an in-app purchase</a> for an additional $49.99.</p>

<p>Now, for those of you who invested in the first version of OmniGraffle for iPad, I have some great news! We really appreciate the investment you made in our new app on a new platform (which shipped the day the iPad launched!), and we’ve decided to show you our appreciation in a very concrete way by giving you the $49.99 Pro upgrade for free when you purchase version 2. We hope you enjoy all of the powerful features we’ve added to OmniGraffle 2, and we thank you for your continuing support!</p>


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      <title>New OmniFocus extensions for iOS 8</title>
      <dc:creator>Ken Case</dc:creator>
      <link>https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/entry/new-omnifocus-extensions-for-ios-8</link>
      <guid>https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/entry/new-omnifocus-extensions-for-ios-8</guid>
      <dc:date>2014-09-17T07:32:00+00:00</dc:date>
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<p>It’s hard to believe that it’s only been three months since Apple’s <a href="https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/">Worldwide Developers Conference</a>. We had just finished shipping <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/blog/omnifocus-2-for-mac-available-now">OmniFocus 2.0 for Mac</a>—a huge release for us—and suddenly we were on the receiving end of a firehose of information from Apple about <a href="http://www.apple.com/ios/developer/">iOS 8</a> and <a href="http://www.apple.com/osx/preview/">Yosemite</a> and <a href="http://developer.apple.com/swift/">Swift</a>. All three were incredibly exciting, but the one which would immediately change our app development was iOS 8.</p>

<p>With iOS 8, Apple gave us new ways to interact with the operating system and with other apps. For the first time ever, we could provide extensions which could run inside other apps. We could add <strong>Today</strong> extensions to Notification Center. We could build new <strong>Sharing</strong> options to easily capture content shared by other apps. We could share <strong>documents</strong> between apps without making extra copies that get out of date. And even in places where our code wasn’t running, we now had more flexibility—like the ability to provide <strong>interactive notifications</strong> with multiple choices. All that and much more. Far more than we had time to adopt in one summer—particularly since we also had two major app upgrades to ship for iPad: OmniFocus 2 and OmniGraffle 2.</p>

<p>Fast forward a few (very busy!) months, and iOS 8 is finally right around the corner—and the iPad and iPhone editions of OmniFocus 2 are both ready with two great new extensions. The new OmniFocus Sharing extension will let you capture content from Safari and other apps, and with the new OmniFocus Today extension it’s easier than ever to get a grip on your day’s commitments:</p>

<p><img src="/images/blog_images/New_OmniFocus_extensions_-_iPhone.png" alt="Screenshot of the Today extension on iPhone" width="320px"  /></p>

<p>These new extensions are just a taste of what’s now possible with iOS 8. I’m looking forward to doing even more with extensions in our apps—and I’m also looking forward to seeing what other developers have been cooking up over the summer!</p>


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      <title>Just a short bit about a few apps and iOS 8</title>
      <dc:creator>Derek R.</dc:creator>
      <link>https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/entry/just-a-short-bit-about-a-few-apps-and-ios-8</link>
      <guid>https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/entry/just-a-short-bit-about-a-few-apps-and-ios-8</guid>
      <dc:date>2014-09-12T21:54:00+00:00</dc:date>
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<p>It’s been a few months since we pulled OmniFocus for iPad and OmniGraffle for iPad from the App Store, but we’re less than a week away from the big iOS 8 launch.</p>

<p>What are we doing, and where are the apps?</p>

<p>Well, we’re very happy to share that OmniFocus 2 for iPad and OmniGraffle 2 for iPad have been submitted to Apple for review. And they’re both incredible. OmniGraffle 2 is super fast. And there’s a lot that’s new: inspectors, drawing tools, AirDrop support, shape combinations, Visio support, and more.</p>

<p><img src="/images/blog_images/IMG_0064.PNG" alt="OmniGraffle for iPad" /></p>

<p>OmniFocus 2 for iPad has some great new features and a brand new look. We&#8217;ve added a few useful extensions, too, like Sharing and a Today view. You can even create perspectives in Pro.</p>

<p><img src="/images/blog_images/IMG_0092.PNG" alt="OmniFocus for iPad" /></p>

<p>And finally. Expect each of those extensions in OmniFocus 2 for iPad in OmniFocus 2 for iPhone. As a free update, of course.</p>

<p>We’re really excited to get this stuff out there to you!</p>

<p><span style="font-size:.8em;">Oh: shout out to my friend OmniGraffle 6.1 for Mac. Dangerously close to a Public Test!</span></p>


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      <title>Welcome to Stenciltown!</title>
      <dc:creator>Ken Case</dc:creator>
      <link>https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/entry/welcome-to-stenciltown</link>
      <guid>https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/entry/welcome-to-stenciltown</guid>
      <dc:date>2014-09-12T19:13:00+00:00</dc:date>
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<p>One of the wonderful things about OmniGraffle is that it&#8217;s incredibly easy to build stencils: you just take any content that you might put in a normal document, create a new stencil document, and add that content to it.</p>

<p>It&#8217;s also very easy to download stencils from the Internet: you can go to a website and download a stencil (like <a href="http://viget.com/inspire/twitter-bootstrap-3.0-stencils-for-omnigraffle">Twitter Bootstrap 3.0</a> from Viget), open that stencil in OmniGraffle and you&#8217;re good to go.</p>

<p>But you could only download those stencils if you knew where to find them, and unfortunately they&#8217;re scattered across the web.</p>

<p>Enter <a href="http://stenciltown.omnigroup.com/">Stenciltown</a>:</p>

<p><a href="http://stenciltown.omnigroup.com/"><img src="/images/blog_images/Welcome_to_Stenciltown_-_website.jpg" alt="Screenshot of Stenciltown" width="600px"  /></a></p>

<p>Stenciltown makes it easy to find free OmniGraffle stencils which have been shared by the community. You can browse and search the collection through its web interface, and once you&#8217;ve found a stencil you’d like to use it&#8217;s as easy as ever to download and use.</p>

<p>You can also search Stenciltown from within OmniGraffle itself, both on Mac and iPad:</p>

<p><img src="/images/blog_images/Welcome_to_Stenciltown_-_app_search.png" alt="Searching Stenciltown in Mac and iPad apps" width="576px"  /></p>

<p>We think being able to search for community stencils within the app is important; it lets people who are using the app find what they’re looking for right away (and it helps new customers find stencils even when they haven’t yet heard of Stenciltown).</p>

<p>If you have a stencil you&#8217;d like to share with the rest of the OmniGraffle community, you&#8217;ll find the option to &#8220;Submit a Stencil&#8221; at the top of the page. You&#8217;ll need to provide the stencil file, a preview image, and some basic details about the stencil. After a short review process, your stencil will become freely available to all of the OmniGraffle community, both in OmniGraffle itself and through the Stenciltown website.</p>

<p>We look forward to seeing you in Stenciltown!</p>


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      <title>Our phone system is down this AM [Update: back up!]</title>
      <dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
      <link>https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/entry/our-phone-system-is-down-this-am</link>
      <guid>https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/entry/our-phone-system-is-down-this-am</guid>
      <dc:date>2014-07-31T16:20:00+00:00</dc:date>
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<p>A software upgrade last night did not go as planned, taking our phone system offline; to recover, we need to upgrade a piece of hardware. Our system admin team is working on the issue and will get the phones back up as quickly as possible. We’re currently estimating that we’ll be without phone service for a few more hours.</p>

<p>Our <a href="mailto:[email protected]">support</a> and <a href="mailto:[email protected]">sales</a> teams are still available via email; we’ll update this blog post with more information when the situation is resolved or as needed.</p>

<p>We’re really sorry for the inconvenience this is causing you!</p>

<p>10:45 AM Update: phone system is back up. Thanks for your patience, everyone!</p>


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      <title>Summertime Reading from The Omni Group</title>
      <dc:creator>Chuck</dc:creator>
      <link>https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/entry/summertime-reading-from-the-omni-group</link>
      <guid>https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/entry/summertime-reading-from-the-omni-group</guid>
      <dc:date>2014-06-20T17:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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<p>
Or, <em>&#8220;What&#8217;s New in Documentation Land&#8221;</em>.
</p>

<p>
Last December, we started packaging the in-app documentation for many of our OmniApps and distributing those in <a href="http://idpf.org/epub/30">EPUB3 format</a> through Apple&#8217;s <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/the-omni-group/id757353887?mt=11">iBooks Store</a>. These books are DRM-free and freely available to anyone&#8212;not just users of our apps. To date, nearly 30,000 copies have been downloaded; thank you!
</p>

<p>
Earlier this week, we reached a new milestone by publishing the <em>OmniFocus 2 for iPhone User Manual</em>, in the following languages:
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<ul>
	<li>Chinese (Simplified)</li>
	<li>Dutch</li>
	<li>French</li>
	<li>German</li>
	<li>Italian</li>
	<li>Russian</li>
	<li>Spanish</li>
</ul>

<p>
These, too, are freely available worldwide on the iBooks Store. We decided that, rather than limiting distribution to the countries or regions in which these languages are predominantly used, that we would make them available to everyone.
</p>

<p>
This is just the first step; a trial to see if this is doable (and to see how our customers react to these releases). Meantime, the Documentation Wranglers are busy at work at packaging up the translations for all of our apps with the goal of making these available on the iBooks Store as they&#8217;re ready to go (pending Apple approval, of course).
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<h2>Can&#8217;t Find Our Books on Your iBooks Store?</h2>

<p>
Apple allows us to distribute our EPUBs in 51 countries, and we promise to make our books available in <em>every</em> iBooks Store to which we have access. However, a number of you have let us know that, while you can purchase our apps from your local App Store or Mac App Store, our books aren&#8217;t available in your country&#8217;s iBooks Store. We have been keeping track of the countries as you let us know (thank you!), and want to provide that list here <a href="http://support.omnigroup.com/ibooks-not-available-everywhere">again</a>:
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<ul>
	<li>China</li>
	<li>Croatia</li>
	<li>Hong Kong</li>
	<li>India</li>
	<li>Israel</li>
	<li>Russia</li>
	<li>Singapore</li>
	<li>South Africa</li>
	<li>Turkey</li>
</ul>

<p>
While the iBooks Store is our preferred download method (we&#8217;ll get to that shortly), we want to ensure that all of our users can get to the EPUB versions of our documentation wherever you are. If you reside in one of the above countries, or if you can&#8217;t find our books on your country&#8217;s iBooks Store, you can download any of our books from our downloads site:
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<blockquote><p><strong><a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/ftp/pub/software/MacOSX/Manuals/EPUB/">http://www.omnigroup.com/ftp/pub/software/MacOSX/Manuals/EPUB/</a></strong></p>
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<p>
Within that directory, you&#8217;ll find region folders (for example, <em>de</em> for German, <em>es</em> for Spanish, and so on) for the various translations we have published.
</p>

<h2>Direct Download vs iBooks Store</h2>

<p>
So, you&#8217;re probably wondering whether you should just use our downloads site instead of the iBooks Store. Sure, you can do that, but there are a few <strong>huge</strong> advantages to getting our books from the iBooks Store:
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<ul>
<li>
If you have &#8220;purchased&#8221; your copy from the iBooks Store (they&#8217;re free!), you will receive a notification in iBooks whenever we release an update. If you are getting our books from the downloads site, you&#8217;ll have to check that regularly, or keep an eye out on Twitter for when we update a book.<br><br>
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One of the many reasons why people want our documentation in a different format is so they can make notes and annotations to things they regularly refer to. And while you can do this with a PDF, once you&#8217;ve added a bunch of notes to a PDF file, all of your notes and annotations are stuck in that one file. There is no easy way for you to take the notes and annotations from one PDF file and inject them in another. When you download an update from the iBooks Store, iBooks preserves your notes, annotations, and bookmarks from one version to the next.<br><br>
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The final advantage of using the iBooks Store is iCloud Sync. If you are using iCloud to sync books across your iOS devices and with your Mac, all of your notes, annotations, and bookmarks are also synced. This means that a bookmark you make in iBooks on your Mac will show up as a bookmark in the same book on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.
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We ask that you first look to the iBooks Store in your country to see if our books are available. If so, please download them from iBooks. If not, then please feel free to use our <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/ftp/pub/software/MacOSX/Manuals/EPUB/">downloads site</a></strong>.
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<h2>A Final Note About PDF</h2>

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As you may have noticed, we have slowly phased out distributing PDF versions of our documentation. The advantages of EPUB (as noted above) far outweigh what you get with a PDF. We are continuing to work on our documentation process and toolchain, with the goal of making our docs more accessible&#8212;and printable&#8212;soon.
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      <dc:date>2014-05-21T17:19:00+00:00</dc:date>
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<p>The last time we used this space to talk about OmniFocus 2 for Mac it was to <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/blog/omnifocus-2-for-mac-resumes-testing-will-ship-in-june">announce that we&#8217;d ship in June</a>.</p>

<p>So, hopefully this blog comes as a pleasant surprise (though we did <a href="https://twitter.com/OmniFocus/status/467087772356853760">drop a hint on Twitter!</a>); the newest version of OmniFocus is available today, both <a href="http://omnigroup.com/omnifocus/">directly from Omni</a> and via the <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/download/appstore/omnifocus">Mac App Store</a>.</p>

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<h3>Pro and Standard</h3>

<p>OmniFocus 1 was a huge success, and we think it provided great value for those who needed its power. That said, one of our goals for OmniFocus 2 was to help people who weren’t sure that they did need all that power, or worried it might get in the way. So we’ve chosen a streamlined set of features for the Standard edition of OmniFocus 2, while making some of the more complex features part of OmniFocus Pro. Those who are already making full use of the OmniFocus 1 feature set might want to go straight for Pro, but you can always start with Standard and then upgrade to Pro later.</p>

<p>Here&#8217;s an overview of the extra features you get with a Pro license:</p>

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<li><strong>Custom Perspectives</strong>: Create and save filtered and sorted views that are geared towards an area of responsibility, a regular activity, or a state of mind. Assign custom icons and hotkeys to make pulling them up a snap. </li>
<li><strong>Focus</strong>: Hide everything but the projects you choose, throughout all views. For example, don’t get distracted by your home projects when you’re at work, and vice versa.</li>
<li><strong>AppleScript</strong>: Use scripts to automate mundane actions, bring in data from other sources, and generally make OmniFocus infinitely powerful!</li>
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<h3>New Features for Everyone</h3>

<p>Whether or not you choose Pro, OmniFocus 2 gives you a bunch of really cool features and a <strong>thoughtfully redesigned interface</strong> that looks right at home in the latest version of OS X. You can use the <strong>Forecast</strong> perspective to get a view of your actions laid out by date (and in context with what&#8217;s on your Calendar). In Forecast, assigning a due date to an action is as simple as dragging it to the appropriate day. The <strong>Review</strong> perspective gives you a structured way to take stock and make adjustments. OmniFocus 1 users loved the ease of Quick Entry, a way to capture OmniFocus items from any app. And now we’ve added <strong>Quick Open</strong>, a way to jump right to a folder, project, context, or perspective from anywhere in OmniFocus. And for those that need to generate reports for others to review or just to scribble on, we&#8217;ve beefed up <strong>printing and export</strong> so that the output is more like a document than a screenshot.</p>

<h3>Pricing and Upgrades</h3>

<p>OmniFocus 2 costs $39.99, with a Pro License at $79.99.</p>

<p>Customers who purchased OmniFocus 1 from the <a href="https://store.omnigroup.com">Omni Store</a> can purchase an OmniFocus 2 Standard license for $19.99 or a Pro license for $39.99. If you bought OmniFocus 1 from the <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/download/appstore/omnifocus">Mac App Store</a>, you can buy OmniFocus 2 and get the Pro feature set for free. To make these options as easy as possible to take advantage of, we&#8217;ve created a <a href="http://support.omnigroup.com/omnifocus-2-upgrades">separate page</a> with step-by-step instructions.</p>

<h3>Get Started!</h3>

<p>If you&#8217;re looking for some help getting started, we recommend the <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/video/omnifocus-2-mac">set of &#8220;Support Short&#8221; videos</a> we shot just for OmniFocus 2&#8217;s new interface. We&#8217;ve also created a whole new website called <a href="http://inside.omnifocus.com/">Inside OmniFocus</a> to collect helpful information on workflows, systems, tools, and services that all work with OmniFocus. If you&#8217;ve been using OmniFocus for a while you might recognize the names and faces of our friends David Sparks, Sven Fechner, and Kourosh Dini. We&#8217;ve got new stuff from them, as well as from new friends Sabra Morris, Randy Hunt, and Jan-Yves Ruzicka. There&#8217;s a sweet User Manual available for free from the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/omnifocus-2-for-mac-user-manual/id879128062?ls=1&amp;mt=11">iBooks Store</a>. And whether you have a question about how to use one of the new features or how to start fresh, our <a href="http://support.omnigroup.com/">Support Humans</a> are available by phone and <a href="mailto:[email protected]">email</a>.</p>

<p>We hope you&#8217;ll check out OmniFocus 2 for Mac today. Just like all of our Mac apps, you can download a free trial from the <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus">product page</a> (and switch between Pro and Standard during the 14-day period, so you can see which feature set fits your workflow the best). Thanks!</p>


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      <dc:creator>Derek R.</dc:creator>
      <link>https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/entry/restarting-our-newsletter</link>
      <guid>https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/entry/restarting-our-newsletter</guid>
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<p>The following is the introduction from our rising-from-the-ashes newsletter. Issue one just went out.</p>

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  <p><strong>Welcome</strong></p>
  
  <p>Hello, and cheers from Omni! After a bit of a hiatus (8 years!) our newsletter is back. It&#8217;s low-traffic &#8212; we expect to put one out a few times a year. It&#8217;ll be filled with all the usual content found in newsletters, like sneak peeks, maybe a feature or two, and news. And we’ll do our best to make sure the content is worth your time.</p>
  
  <p>So instead of the product announcements we sometimes sent to this <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/omninews" title="OmniNews Mailing List">mailing list</a> over the past few years (we forgot a few!), we’re switching to this new format. Keep watching our <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/blog/" title="Omni Blog">blog</a> for more frequent, timely updates, or <a href="http://twitter.com/omnigroup/" title="Omni Group on Twitter">follow us on Twitter</a> for all of our goings-on.</p>
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<p><a href="http://omnigroup.com/letter/01/">Continue reading the newsletter</a>, and <a href="http://omnigroup.com/lists/omni-letters/subscribe">subscribe</a> to get the next one.</p>

<p>Oh, and the other thing in the first newsletter? OmniFocus 2 for Mac is now in Public Test. <a href="http://omnigroup.com/omnifocus/">Head to the product page</a> to download.</p>


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      <link>https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/entry/an-update-on-heartbleed-from-omni</link>
      <guid>https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/entry/an-update-on-heartbleed-from-omni</guid>
      <dc:date>2014-04-10T11:34:00+00:00</dc:date>
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<p>You may have already heard about a vulnerability called Heartbleed that affects secure communication with websites (<a href="http://www.loopinsight.com/2014/04/08/heartbleed-bug/">summarized nicely at The Loop</a>).</p>

<p>In response to this threat, Omni immediately updated OpenSSL to non-vulnerable versions on all of our servers. We then revoked and regenerated all SSL certificates and keys. It is safe to <a href="https://manage.sync.omnigroup.com/manage?e=password">change your Omni Sync Server password</a> at this time. We don&#8217;t have any evidence of malicious behavior, but due to the nature of this vulnerability, we&#8217;re recommending that all users change their passwords anyway.</p>


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