Let me nitpick for a moment. I’m a huge fan of Omnifocus and I use it on my Macs, iPhone and iPad. I’ve bought it for everything I use regularly and I use it dozens of times every day. One of the key things that Omnifocus does so well is synchronize all of your task data across all the devices you use. It works great. I’ve never had it lose anything and I can really trust that nothing gets lost.

However, when I synchronize my phone I’m always irked with the screen. The problem: synced.

OmniFocus app main screen on iPhone showing Inbox, Projects, Contexts, Due Soon, Overdue, Flagged, Search, and Perspectives, with a sync progress overlay reading Updating with synced data.

We also “synced” on the iPad.

OmniFocus iPad app showing a dark modal dialog with a progress bar and the message Updating with synced data displayed over the Errands task list.

Yes, I’m being picky. The problem is that “synced” is not a word. Don’t believe me? Ask the OED.

Oxford English Dictionary website showing a quick search results page with no dictionary entries found for synced

That’s right. It isn’t a word.

There isn’t a great solution. Apple decided to use “Sync in Progress” when connecting to iTunes. That seems a lot better than “Updating with synced data” to me.