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  What an exciting WWDC25! Liquid Glass. Foundation Models. iPad windows. After WWDC, we like to take a moment. To quote one of the great philosophers of the '80s, Ferris Bueller, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Today, we share our post-WWDC roadmap update for @OmniGroup@mastodon.omnigroup.com! https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/omni-roadmap-2025-post-wwdc-update

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  On this day 34 years ago, I registered the omnigroup.com domain. It was the day NeXT launched NeXTSTEP 3.0, taking advantage of their new 33MHz "Turbo" workstations. In 1992, like today, Sept. 8 was the first workday following Labor Day weekend. Happy birthday, @OmniGroup@mastodon.omnigroup.com! Here's the original logo used by Omni from 1992 until our Aqua redesign in 2001. I created this on a NeXT using RenderMan with a hand-written text RIB source file, back when 3D renderings...

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  We love having products ready to ship on day one for Apple’s new platforms. We are pleased to share that the first Omni app on visionOS for the new Apple Vision Pro platform will be OmniPlan, our tool for powerful project management. With OmniPlan for Apple Vision Pro, your Gantt charts are no longer limited by the size of a physical display screen. How cool is that? We’re excited for the future of visionOS—the first spatial computing platform. https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/omniplan-coming-to-...

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  OmniFocus 4.8 for iPhone redesigns the navigation bar at the bottom for Liquid Glass, dynamically collapsing when you scroll to provide more space for viewing tasks. Feedback welcome! (You can tap the perspective icon in the lower left at any time to expand it back into the full navigation bar.)

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  Earlier this year, Christophe Laporte of the French-language publication MacGeneration asked if I might share a personal memory about Apple for a project they were working on for Apple's 50th anniversary. As we approach that anniversary this week, I thought I'd share that memory here as well! https://fr.ulule.com/50-ans-apple-le-livre-par-macgeneration/ [0/4]

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  In early 1985, Henry Nussbacher sent a letter to all Bitnet contacts calling for admins to hunt down and destroy every chat server because a dozen users actively chatting could bring file transfers to a halt—file transfers being the primary purpose of the network. Jeff Kell realized that the problem wasn't chatting itself, but redundant traffic from independent connections. So he built the first Relay chat system. I got involved in August, setting up the 10th relay server and contributi...

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  Test builds of OmniOutliner 6.1 are now available, with a bunch of new Shortcuts actions provided by App Intents. Feedback welcome! https://www.omnigroup.com/test/

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  Whether you’re a writer or a student, an attorney or a software developer, outlines can help clarify and develop ideas and concepts. And the beginning of the year is a great time to take a step back from our ground-level to-do lists, to think about our plans more strategically at the 10,000-foot level. I’m doing this now myself, looking back at the past year and thinking about the year ahead, and find OmniOutliner indispensible for giving structure to those thoughts. https://mastodon.omnigroup....

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  I love working with a team that knows our products and each others' strengths. At the Omni Group our average tenure is now over 15 years. “OK, Ken, by ‘average’ I assume you mean ‘mean’? But some of you old-timers who have been there 30+ years are skewing that curve, right?” Well, I suppose that's true. If we look at the median tenure, that's now at 13.99 years. (The 2024 report at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates the median tenure across all industries is 3.9 years.)...