OmniPresence document syncing is now available!

Hi, all!

For the last several years we=92ve been hard at work bringing automatic =
syncing to our Mac, iPad, and iPhone apps, so our customers always have =
their latest work available on all their devices. We started by adding =
automatic syncing to OmniFocus in 2008, then to OmniPlan in 2011=97and =
today, on May 22, we're rounding out support for automatic syncing in =
OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner, and OmniGraphSketcher by shipping =
=93OmniPresence=94 document syncing:

	http://www.omnigroup.com/omnipresence/

OmniPresence is designed to work well with any Mac app which supports OS =
X=92s Auto Save and Versions. Using the same underlying document =
coordination as Versions, OmniPresence lets your app know when a =
document has been changed on another device, and double-checks to make =
sure it always syncs a current and complete copy of any documents =
currently being edited. OmniPresence can=92t prevent conflicting edits =
from multiple devices=97but when that happens it automatically saves =
both versions of conflicting edits so that no edits are lost.

OmniPresence is also designed to support document syncing within teams. =
By creating a shared sync account for your team, you can make sure that =
everyone on your team always has the latest copy of every document =
available on all their devices.

We believe in building solutions that will stand the test of time, and =
we believe that your data should be yours to control=97whether you=92re =
syncing your personal files or your company=92s confidential =
information. So rather than use a proprietary syncing service which =
might not be available in five or ten years, OmniPresence is built on =
top of open web server technologies. This means you can sync documents =
using your own web server, such as the Apache server built into Mountain =
Lion Server. (We=92ve posted instructions for setting up WebDAV file =
sharing on Mountain Lion Server on our support pages.)

We know that some customers would rather not have to set up their own =
service, so we=92re currently scaling up our Omni Sync Server to support =
OmniPresence. We=92re not quite sure how much additional traffic to =
expect from customers using OmniPresence, so we=92re not opening the =
floodgates to all our customers just yet=97but we are trying to make =
OmniPresence available to all accounts as quickly as possible. (Anyone =
who has checked the =93I am brave=94 box at sync.omnigroup.com should =
already have access, and anyone else who checks that box will be given =
priority access.)

Finally, a quick note for any developers out there: we will be releasing =
the source code to OmniPresence as part of our open source frameworks on =
github, so you=92ll be able to take our code and do whatever you want =
with it. OmniPresence is already compatible with other third party apps =
on Mac, but because of the sandbox on iOS it will require some =
integration work to support OmniPresence on iPad or iPhone apps. Our =
first goal was simply to use OmniPresence to sync documents in our own =
apps=97but we=92d love to see other apps start using it as well!

Thanks, everyone, for your patience as we=92ve built automatic syncing =
into all of our apps. We hope you=92ll enjoy OmniPresence as much as we =
do!

				Ken