Hold breath. Exhale. Focus. | Kinkless

I don’t have much to add to Ethan’s (typically entertaining and gracious) post about OmniFocus — an under-development OmniGroup app that will bring Kinkless’ functionality to a stable and powerful Cocoa application. But, first off: Yay! The Kinkless is dead! Long live the Kinkless!

Ethan writes:

OmniGroup has been very supportive of kGTD from the beginning, clearly making code tweaks and additions to support this nutty venture. At some point it became clear that the next logical step would be to consider Cocoafying the whole shebang. Having the chance to take everything I’d been thinking and working on with kGTD and see it turned into something bigger and better and brighter is like making a doodle on a piece of paper, handing it to da Vinci and seeing it turned into a full color oil painting. Even better: it’s like Da Vinci letting you sit around and gab at them while they do this and ask for “a bit more cobalt-blue in the sky” and “a few more peasants in that bit on the left”.

While OF is under development, I won’t have much to say publicly about it — I’m superstitious about buying a crib until the baby gets its first smack on the ass — but I know the OmniMouth will keep you posted on updates, including when you can expect to see a beta, what the feature set for the first cut is likely to include, and so on.

What I will say is that both Ethan and OmniGroup are wonderful to collaborate with. I’m confident that this will be an app that pulls together the functionality, stability, and polish you associate with OG’s terrific apps.

[Non-disclosure disclosure: Not sure it matters, but if you’re curious, this is not a paying gig for me. Mostly I just stand around like a fat man at a construction site, drinking coffee and shouting pointless suggestions. Ethan and OmniGroup listen patiently, sometimes complying with my random requests, and that’s all the pay I could ever hope for.]