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How To Sync Omni Focus with WebDAV for Free

OK, here's the play-by-play to get Omni-Focus to synch automatically between your computer and your phone. Takes ~10 to 15 minutes, plus the time you'll spend waiting for confirmation emails from a service called "swissdisk."

1. Go to: http://swissdisk.com
2. Sign up for a free account, which is a little hidden. First go to "Signup" in the top menu bar. Then scroll down and click the "free 50 megs" option:

3. You will create a username and password. Write these down / remember them, whatever.

4. Follow the steps to "activate" your account. They send you an email, you click the link, then they send you a second email, which means your account is active

5. Go to OmniFocus and open the OmniFocus menu in the top left. Choose "preferences." You'll see a screen like this:


6. Put your url in the box like I did with mine in this screenshot above. Then click "Sync Now." It will ask for your username and password twice. Put it in both times and click "remember" when you do it.

7. Once that syncs successfully (it will "un-gray"), then if you are on a Wi-Fi network with your phone you can "share settings." Probably easier just to click "send settings" though and do the e-mail thingie.

- J

Comments (4)

Jan 09, 2010
Eric Beavers said...
Thanks for this! I've been using MobileMe for contacts, calendars and OmniFocus syncing. I figured out how to use Google Sync for the first two and this was the final piece. Here's to saving $150 a year!
Jan 17, 2010
Mark K Curtis said...
Many thanks for these easy to follow directions. I'm used to Toodledo as have had a variety of windows based machines and/or iphone. Now I'm getting a mac I feel the need to go 'native' but enjoy using Google apps with my own domain. So as Eric says this will save me a lot of money!
Jan 17, 2010
Eric Beavers said...
Still working like a charm by the way.
Mar 04, 2010
androomerrill said...
This is fantastic! I can now break free from the chains of MobileMe.

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