"A lot of apps are adding artificial intelligence to their products in the most in-your-face manner possible. Companies like Google, Microsoft, and Meta are all adding colorful buttons and pop-ups to their user interface, and barraging their customers with marketing emails, all of which are loudly begging users to try out the new AI features. It was refreshing, in that context, to talk to indie app makers Omni Group about their approach to AI."
"This means the average OmniFocus user won't see any pop-ups imploring them to use AI in the application itself. AI is instead added as a potential tool for anyone who wants to build automations, or anyone who installs one of the automations built by someone else. A few people have already done exactly that; you can find a handful of such automations here. Here's how to give them a spin."
OmniFocus integrates AI as an optional, privacy-first capability that emphasizes offline use and user control. The AI features are exposed through automations that users can build or install rather than through in-app prompts, pop-ups, or marketing. Devices must run Apple's macOS, iOS, or iPadOS '26' releases to access Foundation, the large language model behind Apple Intelligence. An up-to-date OmniFocus release is required to use the features, and similar AI functionality will arrive in other Omni applications in future updates. A small set of community automations is already available in the Omni-Automations directory.
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