I just started testing OF3 beta on Mac. I always had a few customer perspectives in my tool bar. However, these didn’t automatically appear when I started syncing with the sync server.
Is this normal behavior or a bug? I could have sworn that everytime else I synced, it automatically pulled over my customer perspectives.
If not, How do I drag those customer perspectives to the new toolbar in OF3 beta?
Currently you cannot add custom perspectives to the toolbar. If you would like to see it return I suggest emailing Omni through the Help > Contact Omni menu item to let them know you want it and perhaps how you use it vs the sidebar :)
For anyone else looking for the sidebar, in the Show Perspectives pop up you can star perspectives and this will show them on the left side of your OF window :)
I’ve got something cooking. I think I have managed a way to do it with another third party app. I’m writing up an article today and will have it posted soon… more to follow.
Loosing this capability would be a huge step backward in my opinion as the sidebar is harder to read and choose from. I really hope it’s just a temporary state that this functionality is not in OF3
I overcame this missing feature set by using Keyboard Maestro palettes. I was able to group perspectives into different palettes. I don’t miss the Top Toolbar as much now.
This is not very user-friendly at first. I think if you add a new one it should automatically be starred. The only intuitive way to know that you will need to star them is if you ever tried to un-star them. Ive been using OmniFocus for almost a decade and this stumped me for about an hour… a bit annoying that it wasn’t in a tutorial… especially since its one of the newest features.
Anyways, it obviously works great now. But I paid $70 to upgrade both copies. Hoping some of that goes into tutorials especially since so many programs are far and away cheaper.