A few customers have reached out to me about this roadmap update asking if OmniFocus collaboration is still on the table—so I want to clarify that yes, OmniFocus collaboration is absolutely still on the table!
We’ve been working very hard on collaboration throughout the year, along with technical compatibility and all of the other exciting feature improvements we discussed in the roadmap. As we explored the design implementation and started working, ourselves, as a distributed team during the pandemic, we realized the endpoint we wanted to reach was a lot more ambitious than what we originally envisioned. This is particularly true for entire teams who use our software.
In July’s roadmap update, I shared this realization:
We’ve been hard at work at designing and implementing [one-to-one collaboration in OmniFocus], and as we’ve gotten deeper into this work we’ve decided to set our sights higher. Our original plan was to simply enable the sharing of individual tasks with one other person, but as we’ve thought through the various way people will want to collaborate we’ve decided it’s important to support sharing entire projects with teams right out of the gate.
There are a lot of new components in our updated plan for collaboration, like being able to easily set up teams and clearly communicate changes between team members. Needs like these are front and center in our thoughts as we proceed with redesigning and rebuilding OmniFocus. It’s a much stronger vision and a bigger job to implement, so unfortunately it’s going to take longer. (It’s more on the horizon than around the corner.)
We’re on a long journey, but we feel this need as strongly as ever and think the destination is worth reaching—so we’re continuing along the path which will take us there!
