I use OmniFocus 2 for iPhone every day. Close to every hour. And still I’ve just learnt some things I didn’t know – because the Omni Group has posted a short manual to the iBooks Store here.

Mac software tends to work the way you expect it to, so I don’t often look further than what I can figure out as I go. But I should know better because I used to write some of these manuals. Not all that many and so long ago that I can still remember how gorgeous bromide proof pages looked – and how rubbish final printed manuals looked in comparison. But simplicity is a very hard-won feature in software and if you lean on something a lot, it’s worth seeing what else is hidden behind the simple surface.

Consequently I’m now also reading the Omni Group’s OmniOutliner manual on the iBooks Store.

*This used to be a very familiar term when I was briefly a technical author: Read the Fucking Manual.