Episode 16 – OmniFocus and OmniPlan with Ken Case

Ken Case is the CEO of the OmniGroup and has been there as a developer for the launch of many platforms now including the Apple Vision Pro. In this episode we discuss his feelings around the launch of this new platform, making the Apple Vision Pro standard equipment at his company for every employee at the OmniGroup, and dive deep into OmniFocus for visionOS, plus we chat about OmniPlan on visionOS, and he shares some hopes for WWDC both as a user and a developer.

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Links and Show Notes

Links:
https://www.omnigroup.com
https://mastodon.omnigroup.com/@OmniGroup
https://mastodon.social/@kcase

Chapter Markers:
00:00:00: Opening
00:01:24: Support the Podcast
00:02:02: Ken Case
00:04:54: Modifications?
00:07:24: Keyboard/Trackpad
00:08:11: Circling Back
00:08:16: Focal Distance
00:09:54: Multitasking
00:13:44: Envirornments
00:14:52: visionOS apps
00:18:15: Movies
00:18:56: Design Trends
00:19:57: Zooming a window
00:22:21: Standard Equipment
00:25:59: General Feelings about visionOS?
00:28:10: Unique Platform Features
00:29:47: OmniFocus
00:33:31: Window Resizing
00:34:49: Multiple Windows
00:35:42: Bottom Bar
00:37:35: Simple UI for Power Users
00:41:01: Eye Tracking
00:41:57: The Other Platforms
00:44:00: Sidebar Double Tap
00:45:43: Favorite UI
00:48:08: Scanning Documents in visionOS
00:50:02: Audio Recording
00:51:33: Custom Apple Vision Pro layout?
00:53:49: Fantastical
00:54:11: Notifications
00:55:11: Widgets
00:56:07: Notification Center
00:57:51: Where does visionOS shine?
01:02:09: What changed from launch?
01:04:36: Locations
01:06:15: Travel Mode
01:07:40: Roadmap?
01:09:15: OmniPlan
01:13:43: Animation
01:14:19: Challenges bringing OmniPlan to visionOS
01:17:48: How do you use OmniPlan?
01:20:09: What’s next for the OmniGroup for visionOS?
01:23:07: WWDC
01:27:40: What do you want as a developer?
01:32:34: Anything else?
01:33:54: Where can people learn more?
01:34:38: Closing


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