That's right the way it works is that OmniFocus on the iPhone exports your reminders to your synchronization server, then points iCal on the iPhone to the server to import your reminders. But for users that only have the iPhone version and are not synchronizing it to either MobileMe (which has a yearly fee) or a WebDAV server (complicated for non-techies), they can't use this implementation of reminders. The Omni Group has taken great pains to point out that you do not need to be using the desktop version of OmniFocus to get use out of the iPhone version. If I had to choose a word to describe this implementation, that word would be "awful." Here's why: Well, OmniFocus 1.5.2 for iPhone was released, and now we get to see how this alternative reminder system works. Once the time comes for a reminder, it pops up like a normal iCal appointment reminder.
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They say that reminders that rely on connectivity are not good enough, and they have instead chosen to implement reminders by exporting due dates and times into iCal. The task management app's iPhone users have been pestering The Omni Group to implement reminders as push notifications, but OmniFocus refuses to do so. Ken Case from The Omni Group has been twittering for awhile about the impending inclusion of alarm reminders for OmniFocus.
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It looks like a future version of OmniFocus on the Mac will be able to directly update the OmniFocus reminders on the server, removing at least one of my complaints.
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Ken Case comments below, addressing some of the concerns listed here.