Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com Tim Stringer has been providing OmniFocus coaching, consulting and training to people all over the world since 2010 via LearnOmniFocus.com. On today's show, Tim shares nuggets of wisdom he's garnered along his journey with GTD and OmniFocus. Some other people, places, and things mentioned: LearnOmnifocus.com Holistic Productivity Getting Things Done CulturedCode Things David Sparks Kourosh Dini Merlin Mann Sven Fechner Jason Snell Lee G...
Jun 14, 2021•34 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com On today’s Omni Show, we welcome information architect, Thomas Vander Wal. He's currently in charge of DevSecOps strategy and planning at a large aerospace company, and utilizes OmniGraffle & OmniOutliner to easily wrangle and visualize complex data quickly. In this episode, Thomas and Andrew chat about how tools like OmniOutliner and OmniGraffle interact to build a more accurate, coherent picture of your data- regardless of the sit...
Jun 01, 2021•39 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com In today’s Omni Show episode, we conclude our two-part privacy special by welcoming the Electronic Frontier Foundation ’s Executive Director, Cindy Cohn, into the conversation. Ken, Cindy, and Andrew chat about why you care about your privacy and user agency as it relates to iOS’s recent update ( Click here to catch up on part one). We then broaden the conversation to include techniques and tips you can use to better protect your privac...
May 03, 2021•33 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com Today, we welcome our CEO, Ken Case, back on The Omni Show for the first in a two-part special, focused on privacy. With Apple’s recent changes in iOS privacy handling, Ken and Andrew talk about how it affects Omni apps and what it means for you. In this episode, Ken & Andrew break down what changes are happening in iOS, what extra measures Omni took in programming our apps to protect you, and just how we go about keeping your data…...
Apr 26, 2021•20 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com How do you improve on a Gantt chart? What’s the Outline View all about? Is there a delta between customers' wants and needs? How about universal purchases? Today on the Omni Show, we answer these questions and more with an exclusive peek behind the curtain of OmniPlan 4 ’s development process. Ainsley Bourque Olson (Product Manager) & Andrew Abernathy (User Experience Designer) share details of the dance that is developing product e...
Apr 19, 2021•21 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com Gabrielle is an expat who’s moved from the UK to Madrid and utilizes OmniFocus to handle her daily tasks. In this episode, Gabrielle and Andrew talk about how OmniFocus assists Gabrielle in managing all the details of her busy life. Whether she’s renovating an apartment, learning Spanish, working with coaches, writing, or just wrangling her priorities - OmniFocus helps ground and solidify her perspective. Some other people, places, and ...
Apr 05, 2021•26 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com On today's Omni Show, we welcome cybersecurity lawyer, Jake Bernstein. Jake is the former regulator for the Washington state attorney general, and currently practices with Focal Law. His work includes advice & counsel on everything from data breach and GDPR to the California Consumer Privacy Act. In this episode, we chat through Jake's journey to discovering Apple and The Omni Group. We also talk about his use of OmniOutliner and Om...
Mar 15, 2021•25 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com On January 21 we published the Omni Roadmap 2021, where we looked back at 2020 and look forward to all the items planned for this year. Ken Case, CEO of the Omni Group — and author of the roadmap — joins the show to go into further detail. 2020 - What a year! From migrating our entire suite to run natively on Apple's new M1-powered Macs to integrating a streamlined way to handle licensing and subscriptions - Omni Group accomplished a lo...
Feb 15, 2021•24 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com Jason Atwood is COO and one of the founders of Arkus, Inc., a Salesforce consulting partner. He returns on this episode to provide some tips and tricks for the new year...direct from his OmniFocus system. Some other people, places, and things mentioned: Arkus Blog - 8 tips after 800 weekly reviews Arkus Blog - Weekly Review Tuneup for the new year Arkus Cloud Focus Weekly Podcast Change Your Game with GTD® Podcast by Next Action Associa...
Jan 11, 2021•38 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com Oogie McGuire is a shepherdess to a flock of Black Welsh Mountain sheep at her farm in Colorado. When she's not farming, she can be found digitally archiving community photos, curating her Animal Tracker database, or thoughtfully planning and processing her business's next steps. Oogie leverages OmniFocus to handle the details, rhythm, and unpredictability level that raising sheep on her family farm provides. Whether it's pulling up her...
Dec 21, 2020•39 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com Sal Soghoian knows a thing or two about automation. He's a user automation expert, software developer, author and musician. He joined Apple Inc. in January 1997 to serve as the Product Manager of Automation Technologies. Those technologies included AppleScript, Services, the Terminal, Apple Configurator and Automator, among others. He then joined forces with The Omni Group to work on their ambitious Omni Automation Framework that shows ...
Dec 07, 2020•48 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com David Sparks is an Orange County, California business attorney and a geek. David is also a podcaster, blogger, and author who writes about finding the best tools, hardware, and workflows for using Apple products to get work done. David also writes for Macworld magazine and speaks about technology. OmniFocus is how David successfully runs his law practice, blogging, podcasts, and personal life. His system expresses both structure and flu...
Nov 23, 2020•34 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com Luc Beaudoin is the Head of CogZest, Author of Cognitive Productivity books, and creator of the Hook App for MacOS. He's an adjunct professor of Cognitive Science & of Education at Simon Fraser University . He's generously offered listeners of The Omni Show 30% off the Hook App with Coupon "OMNI-SHOW" on checkout. Luc utilizes OmniOutliner templates as mental scaffolding for his deep reading, note taking, and cognitive research. Som...
Nov 10, 2020•30 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com Kourosh Dini, MD is a psychiatrist, productivity expert, author, and musician. He's the author of Creating Flow with OmniFocus . On weekends, he can be heard streaming music from his website . Kourosh crafts his days using OmniFocus . His value of productivity as play is expressed within the routine structure that OmniFocus provides him. Some other people, places, and things mentioned: Getting Things Done by David Allen kGTD with Kouros...
Oct 27, 2020•30 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com Allen Pike runs Steamclock , where he helps design and develop polished apps in beautiful Vancouver, Canada. His work ranges from strategy and product management to coordinating design and development. Previously, he was a Software Engineer at Apple . On weekends, he hosts a podcast about silly facts . Allen leverages OmniFocus to capture and prioritize the best ideas when working at SteamClock. His unique blend of perspectives and work...
Oct 13, 2020•40 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com Aaron Hockley of TechPhotoGuy.com is a Master Photographer and Photographic Craftsman (M.Photog.Cr.), as recognized by the Professional Photographers of America . In 2014, he was recognized for third place in the Commercial/Illustrative category at PPA’s Grand Imaging Awards , and went on to represent the United States as a finalist at the World Photographic Cup. He was also the 2017 & 2020 President of the Oregon Professional Photo...
Sep 29, 2020•41 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com Alyssa Goodman is the Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy at Harvard , co-Director for Science at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study , and Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution . Alyssa utilized OmniGraffle to create the brilliantly informative and aesthetically beautiful Path-to Newton project which visualizes the prevailing thought patterns and discoveries leading up to Sir Isaac Newton's discover...
Sep 15, 2020•31 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com William Gallagher is the deputy chair of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain . From his Youtube channel, 58keys to writing Doctor Who radio dramas and feature articles for AppleInsider - William shares his experiences appropriating OMNI's software to get it all done. Having authored over 19 non-fiction books, William's passion for writing a well-turned phrase utilizing the best software is self-evident. This conversation ranges from inf...
Aug 25, 2020•23 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com Our world is constantly changing, and each year we have to be prepared to adjust our plans based on what we encounter along the way. On July 8 we published an update to our 2020 Omni Roadmap , and in this episode of the Omni Show we talk with Ken Case about some of this year's twists and turns and how we've adapted. We've shipped Omni Automation in all our apps. A great resource for learning more about Omni Automation is omni-automation...
Aug 11, 2020•26 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com Thorsten Grantner is a founder of OmniCert, a German company which is a certification body for sustainability management systems. He joins the show to talk about how he and his employees use OmniFocus to keep up with their many processes and clients. That business may sound dry, but don’t be fooled by how it sounds: it’s a critical part of helping turn our world safer and greener. And, as vitally important detail-oriented work, it’s exa...
Apr 01, 2020•32 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com Dr. Lyle Skains is a researcher and practitioner in the field of digital and interactive fiction. She writes and creates interactive stories and then writes up her research. How did it go? How is creativity and process affected? How do audiences react? And — she uses OmniOutliner to organize this research. We met Lyle via Twitter, when she posted some screenshots of her use of OmniOutliner: here’s a Twitter thread with some of them. She...
Mar 18, 2020•53 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com Scotty Jackson — Manager, Information Services at Large Telecommunications Company and co-host of the Nested Folders productivity podcast with Rose Orchard — joins the show to talk about how he uses OmniFocus . We talk about Scotty’s shortcuts, his custom Next perspective, how he integrates OmniFocus with other apps, and hamburgers. Our special co-host this week is Aaron Cherof , Support Human, who wrote the theme music for The Omni Sho...
Mar 04, 2020•37 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com Alex Lindsay’s company Pixel Corps does livestreaming for companies, organizations, and governments — and they use OmniGraffle to design and document their (necessarily) complex setups and to communicate with clients. Alex tells us how. If you listen to podcasts, you probably know Alex Lindsay from MacBreak Weekly . You may not have known that Alex worked for Industrial Light and Magic back in the day — and, yes, he worked on a Star War...
Feb 19, 2020•42 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com On January 29 we published the Omni Roadmap 2020 , where we look back at 2019 and look forward to all the good things planned for this year. Ken Case, CEO of the Omni Group — and author of the roadmap — joins the show to go into further detail. We got a lot done in 2019! We introduced OmniFocus for the Web, improved performance in OmniGraffle, added support for Omni Automation to OmniPlan, and adopted the big new features that Apple ann...
Feb 05, 2020•35 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com Jason Atwood is COO and one of the founders of Arkus, Inc., a Salesforce consulting partner. He’s a long-time OmniFocus user — and everybody at his company uses OmniFocus. Jason’s view is that standardizing on a premium productivity platform is as important as standardizing on an email system. Jason says, “This is the best-of-breed productivity tool. Because I want people at Arkus to be able to satisfy our clients, to be on top of it, t...
Jan 22, 2020•30 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com Eric Bowers — mortgage loan officer by day, novelist by night — talks about using OmniFocus to help people buy homes and to keep up with writing his novel. As a recent Florida transplant, he also uses OmniFocus to keep up with pool maintenance — a perfect case for recurring tasks. OmniFocus is Eric’s centralized brain. He uses it everywhere, and he’s customized it a bit — he has his own Next perspective, for instance. But he’s also mind...
Jan 08, 2020•27 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com John Gruber, professional blogger and podcaster, has been using OmniOutliner for just about as long as it’s existed. His main use is for planning projects — for instance, he recently moved servers, which is something he’s rarely done, and he used OmniOutliner to keep track of the many details and things to check. He also uses OmniOutliner to collect certain kinds of information. An example is his long-running “Hacks” outline, where he c...
Dec 11, 2019•54 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com Jim Correia — OmniFocus engineer, man-about-town — joins the show to talk about some of the things he and the team have been working on since WWDC: Dark Mode, multiple windows, and Shortcuts. We also talk about his humble beginnings with his trusty TI-99/4A by his side, his search for exotic mesons, and his work at Bare Bones on BBEdit and Yojimbo. Jim’s also a runner and dog-partner to Rosie (who’s widely recognized as the best dog). Y...
Nov 20, 2019•27 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com April Ramm is Email Support Lead and the longest-running Support Human — now with nine years at Omni! We talk about how she triages and categorizes support email, making sure that people who need urgent help go to the top of the list. We also talk about doing phone support, about working remotely several days a week — and about her art: she makes beautiful wire-wrapped jewelry with semi-precious stones. Here are a couple of photos: You ...
Nov 06, 2019•23 min
Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com Christopher Harrington, Director of Creative Strategy at Gartner, joins the show to talk about how he’s used OmniGraffle since the early days of the app. That OmniGraffle is an open-ended, general-purpose tool has been a big part of its appeal to Christopher: he can do the many different things he needs to do with it. We also talk about user experience, otters, and Prince. Christopher is a joyful member of the Purple Family. Content war...
Oct 23, 2019•38 min
