Episode 46 / June 30, 2007
I hope it’s not a pattern, but this is the second week in a month that the MBW boys made no picks. Like last time (Episode 44 right after WWDC), the show was a bit of a special edition and so it was more impromptu conversation about the day’s happening (the iPhone launch) rather than converge of the week’s Mac news.
That said, the iPhoneless Merlin Mann did offer one hot tip. My one complaint about the otherwise awesome iPhone is a lack of to-dos. How this basic handheld function escaped Apple is unfathomable. Like John Gruber I’m assuming that this will be remedied once Leopard ships with its new system-wide notes and to-dos feature. Well, Merlin pointed out that OmniGroup has implemented a web-based interface to OmniFocus, the wonderful GTD app I’ve been using for quite a while. This is even better than iCal to-dos as far as I’m concerned.
The way it works is that you browse to the machine you’re running OmniFocus on on a special port. That brings up a password-protected web interface for your contexts and next actions. Very awesome. I’ve gotten it to work on my MacBook using Safari, but no dice using the iPhone. I’m sure it’s just a sharing setting I’m not configuring right. So, if you’ve got your hands on OmniFocus, enjoy. If not, here’s even more to look forward to.
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