I still use OF but really fell out of love with it due to the attitude of the UX. AND this is after being an enthusiast since v1.
Does OF4 finally allow one to customize the fonts or at least the sizes? The font sizes for the notes are waaay too small, and I don’t think they even pass the ADA standards.
Completely agree with that point of you. But, it is true too about the general interface. I’m really fond of OF, but, for the first time since I use it, I’m about to change my habits. This is exactly why: as you can see on the screenshot below, using Things 3, I’m able to zoom in and out in a large amplitude. With OF 4, the GAP between medium and big is too close.
Does anyone know if such a feature could be easily improved?
Omni: you’re great and make admirable tools. Could you please adjust that point?
I recommend emailing Omni with this request by choosing Contact Omni from the Help menu. These forums aren’t intended for feature requests.
I don’t understand why you can’t cope with the fonts and their formatting in the note fields. It’s really easy to use. I don’t want text formatting in the note fields. But I tried formatting the text anyway after reading your message and whoops, it works and anyone with a bit of experience with PCs/Macs should be able to do it.
What we’re asking for is the ability to set the default text style for the notes field. (You could do it in v2 and a whole lot more! It was awesome). If you use fields a lot styling the fonts everytime is a non-starter.
This has been asked for over and over again. I’m not sure why they are struggling with this. it’s just an entry in a prefs file.
Most concerning is in direct violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. (We do a lot of accessibly focused UX/UI)
As well as a crappy thing to do to people with vision issues.
Dear developers, you’re not Steve Jobs, that’s ok. Very few of us are. Please design for everybody.
On Mac, in Settings > Appearance, there’s a Font size slider which you can use to scale all the fonts in the outline, including the font used for notes. On other platforms, we scale the entire interface (including the outline and notes) based on the user’s preferred Text Size setting (which can be customized for just OmniFocus by swiping down from the top right to get the Control panel, then tapping on the aA Text Size control and choosing “OmniFocus Only”).
We care very much about accessibility! Part of the problem with the old v2 interface for setting up default styles was that it was very fiddly and didn’t compose well with the newer accessibility features, such as honoring system-wide adjustments to the base text size or between Light and Dark Mode.
In addition to the scalable font size settings mentioned above, we worked with vision-impaired users from very early in the OmniFocus 4 development process (even before the first public TestFlight) to improve the flow of using OmniFocus with VoiceOver, the built-in screen reader for all of Apple’s platforms. We’ve improved accessibility descriptions, default actions, rotor actions, and general navigation through the app to make it easier to use the app without sight.
In OmniFocus 4, we also introduced support for dynamically adjusted colors in our Rich Text notes so that they maintain contrast when switching between Light Mode and Dark Mode. (A common problem in earlier versions was that you might choose a color for some of your text in one mode that would make that text hard to see in the other mode.) In OmniFocus 4, if you’re in Dark Mode and choose to make some text light blue, then when you switch to Light Mode the text will automatically become dark blue instead. We do this brightness inversion using the HSL perceptual color space (rather than just naively inverting the values in RGB or HSB) to ensure the contrast is accurately maintained when transitioning between Light and Dark modes.
We’ve had good feedback about the changes we’ve made so far, and continue to make additional improvements as we receive additional feedback. For example, the recent 4.2 release made these improvements:
And the upcoming 4.3 release (currently in TestFlight) makes these improvement:
We’ve also made big investments in supporting Voice Control, which lets people perform actions in OmniFocus using just their voice. We’ve integrated this into our plug-in system, so we now have over one hundred pre-made Voice Control commands for OmniFocus, and people can build their own controls.
This is an important topic, and we believe that making our apps accessible benefits all our customers. We’ve worked hard to make the app support scalable text, dynamic color contrast, accessibility for people without sight, and accessibility for people who might find it easier to control a system with their voice than their hands. I believe we’re the first third-party to support all of these accessibility features in our apps, and we have better support for some of these features than Apple does in many of their own first-party apps.
But that doesn’t mean we should stop here. I’ve already noted that we’re continuing to make improvements, and if you think of other improvements we could make that would make the app more accessible please don’t hesitate to let us know by sending email to omnifocus@omnigroup.com.
Thank you!
It WOULD be cool to be able to change the size, font and color of tasks/outline items in Omnifocus, not just in the note field — MAYBE even of projects, folders and tags. Even as a preference or set of preferences. Yes, it could become quite a fruit salad, but if that floats the user boat, why not? Overhead code/memory/wise? Don’t know, but why all this rising tide of processing power if not to float said boats? True, the controls would have to be on a moveable, tear away type window, but the user could save key combos, shortcuts etc….
