I’ve been using Omnifocus 3 daily hourly since 2018, and I’ve just updated to Omnifocus 4.
I think the update is fine (more or less - but since I last paid Omni in 2018, they could have billed me again for OF3 and I would have taken out my credit card right away), and I think the team has done good work, but I can’t figure out why Quick Open doesn’t search task names/titles and notes. I see that this has been asked before:
- Quick Open - Would searching Actions and Notes be useful? (April 2014)
- Quick View Search doesn’t find Action Note text nor Action Title - OF MAC v2 (February 2019)
This concept wasn’t new in 2014, either. The notion that there should be only a single field has been around at least since 2008, when Google made the “omnibar” a launch feature of their Chrome browser.
In lieu of being able to use a single search function to do searches in Omnifocus, I find myself struggling with replicating that functionality using other tools, such as Alfred, which means using other people’s workflows that are kind of close to what I want, but not quite right, or trying to build it myself, and failing.
Respectfully, Omnifocus 4 doesn’t feel complete to me without this.
