OmniFocus is a personal task manager by The Omni Group

The Omni Group

The Omni Group is a company that develops software for the Mac OS X platform. The Omni Group was informally founded as a NEXTSTEP consulting company in 1989 by Wil Shipley, who immediately brought on Ken Case and Tim Wood. The three incorporated together under the name Omni Development, Inc. in...

 for Mac OS X

Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

 and iOS. The declared goal of the program is to be able to capture thoughts and ideas into to do lists.

The program uses concepts and techniques described in the book Getting Things Done

Getting Things Done

Getting Things Done is an organizational method created by productivity consultant David Allen, described in a book of the same name....

 (commonly abbreviated as GTD) by David Allen

David Allen (author)

David Allen is a productivity consultant who is best known as the creator of the time management method known as "Getting Things Done" .He grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana where he acted and won a state championship in debate...

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History

OmniFocus has its roots in the Kinkless kGTD add/scripts for the Omnigroups OmniOutliner product. Kinkless (kGTD) was developed by Ethan J. A. Schoonover to enable those following the GTD methodology. The Omni group subsequently brought Ethan along with Merlin Mann

Merlin Mann

Merlin Dean Mann III writes the blog . He received a B.A. from New College of Florida, and he currently resides in San Francisco, California with his wife, Madeline Mann, and their daughter, .-Writing:...

to form a project team to create the OmniFocus application.

iOS version

OmniFocus is available on several Apple products, including the iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad. Ken Case, chairman and CEO of OmniGroup has been quoted as saying that the "iPhone version of OmniFocus was not to be merely a companion to the desktop version".