![]() To place a Perspective in your sidebar, tap the star next to the desired Perspective in Perspective view. While there is no way to creat custom perspectives on the iPad (that still can only be done on the Mac), you add your custom perspectives to the default sidebar as shown throughout the screenshots attached to this review with my custom Today, Clear, and other unique OmniFocus Perspectives. IPad OmniFocus also imports custom perspectives from your Mac. Maybe if I wasn’t such a slug and moved about more, it would make more sense. While limited use of flags can be helpful, I’ve never found much use for the map feature, which limits the viewable tasks to those near your location. There is also full support for flags and maps. In all views, you can collapse or expand all objects by tapping and holding the disclosure triangle. Either way, managing actions is fast enough on the iPad that I haven’t done my morning organization on my Mac in two weeks. It is easy to throw the baby out with the bathwater. You lose the ability to select and process multiple items like you can on your Mac but in some ways that is a good thing. The process of tapping on tasks and resetting dates and priorities is intuitive and fast. It can be done over tea, in bed, in the back of a courtroom, or anywhere else I happen to find myself. ![]() It is one of the most liberating aspects of iPad OmniFocus that I no longer need to sit at my Mac to organize my tasks in the morning. ![]() Particularly in landscape view, it is easy to jump between perspectives, contexts and projects to organize my day. This is not the case with iPad OmniFocus. With the limited screen space, there was way too much drilling involved to make it feel efficient. Organizing tasks with iPhone OmniFocus always felt a bit cramped. The sidebar includes a new item button, an inbox count, project, context, and map views, a new forecast mode (covered later), flag status, a review button (also covered later), and custom perspectives. Landscape works best and presents the familiar “steering wheel” control scheme with navigation on the sidebar and data manipulation on a larger right pane. OmniFocus works in both portrait and landscape view. If you need a refresher, read my past OmniFocus coverage including a somewhat dated review. This review is written assuming you are already familiar with OmniFocus on the Mac. This makes many of OmniFocus’s more powerful tools more accessible, which is a good thing for veterans and new users alike. One of the benefits of OmniFocus for iPad is that it simplifies the OmniFocus tools without dumbing them down. That is also why a lot people give up on it, deciding that the barrier to entry is not worth any eventual payoff. It goes far beyond a simple task list and that is why people love it so much. There are a lot of moving parts to OmniFocus. OmniFocus is one of those apps that has rabid fans and confused detractors. If you aren’t in the mood to read 2,000 words, just go buy it. So does OmniFocus’s much awaited iPad incarnation live up to the hype or fall flat on its face? I’m pleased to report the Omni Group succeeded, brilliantly. I was a beta tester and have been using iPad OmniFocus for several weeks.
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