OmniPlan for iOS is designed to help you visualize, maintain, and simplify your projects. Break down tasks, optimize the required resources, control costs, and monitor your entire plan—all at a glance. Collaborate with your colleagues and share every detail, update a calendar with your days off, and process changes one-by-one or all in one go. OmniPlan provides features like Gantt charts, schedules, summaries, milestones, and critical path highlighting to let you manage all of your activities. From customizable views to fast data entry, OmniPlan helps you manage projects that are as simple or complex as you need them to be—without the complexity.

OmniPlan for iOS complements the new OmniPlan 3 for Mac, acting as a powerful mobile counterpart to the most robust project management toolset we’ve ever produced.

Support for features that are part of Apple’s most recent iOS release, iOS 9, was also recently introduced with the OmniPlan for iOS version 2.2 update.

If you’re running OmniPlan on a device that supports it, you can take advantage of iOS 9’s new Split View to run it alongside your other favorite apps. This is a great way to read the OmniPlan manual without interrupting your workflow (for example), or to keep tabs on email while updating your project.

Apple’s improved iOS 9 Spotlight Search is also supported, so your OmniPlan projects will appear in search results when searching from anywhere on your device.

To help guide you through the documentation and better learn all the things you need to know about OmniPlan, here’s a list of all of the chapters in this book:

Chapter 1, Using the Document Browser

The first chapter dives right with an introduction to managing your project files using OmniPlan’s built in Document Browser. Beyond creating, organizing, and sharing your documents, the Document Browser also holds tools for getting help and customizing your OmniPlan experience at a high level — you’ll learn all about those tools here.

Chapter 2, Getting Synced

If you’re working on a project with multiple contributors, getting synced to a server repository will be your next logical port of call. This chapter describes setting up an account and syncing your files with a shared repository. (If you’re the only one editing your project, feel free to skip this step.)

Chapter 3, Using the Project Editor

In OmniPlan for iOS the Project Editor is where you’ll spend most of your time, from creating your first task to marking the last milestone of your project complete. This chapter gives an overview of the tools available for creating, customizing, and curating even the most complex projects.

Chapter 4, OmniPlan 2 for iOS Tutorial

Once you’re familiar with the tools in the Project Editor and you’re eager to get your first project up and running, this is the place to start. The tutorial guides you through the process of setting up and maintaining a project, from creating your first task to reaching the last milestone. After you’ve worked through it you’ll have the tools you need to build your own project from the ground up.

Chapter 5, Glossary

The glossary contains an alphabetical list of special terms you’ll encounter throughout the app, this documentation, and other project management resources you might be familiar with. If you’re just starting out in project management or you’re curious about how OmniPlan implements certain concepts, this is a great chapter to check.

Chapter 6, Getting Help

There’s no shame in admitting that you need help. In fact, that’s what we’re here for. If you ever get stuck when working on something in OmniPlan, or if you have a problem with the app’s license, or you just want to tell our Support Humans and the DocWranglers what an awesome job they’re doing, feel free to get in touch. This chapter points you to all of the resources we have available: Support Humans, Support Articles, Videos, and Documentation.

If you have any specific comments you’d like to send us about the documentation, please do. You can drop us an email message via our Support queue, or you can ping us on Twitter; we’re @OmniWranglers.

Finally, we’d like to thank you for taking the time to read the docs.