The best way I’ve found to organize projects is by areas of life. This is to help gain perspective on what is important and to make it easier to find things. In Omnifocus, there is the ability to create folders and hierarchies of projects. That’s three actions that are needed to change a light bulb, which means it’s a project. You may have to go to the store, buy the light bulb, and then change out the bulb. Building a new website is definitely a project, but changing a light bulb could also be a project. Using David Allen’s definition, projects are anything you need to do that takes two or more actions to complete. Every action item is part of one project and is assigned one context. There are two main sides of Omnifocus: Projects and Contexts. I use the iPhone and iPad versions as well, but here I want to walk you through the setup of my central hub. This article focuses on Omnifocus 2 for Mac. You can learn more here.Īnd for a short time, this is 50% off! You can take advantage of the discount here: Sidenote: I have a video course available that goes through my live system where I explain all the details. It’s crazy to realize I’m still extensively using OmniFocus five years later. There is an updated version of my OmniFocus setup and the inspiration behind it posted here.
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The main purpose is to free up your mind to have ideas, not hold them. I go into the details of GTD here but the simple version is that it’s a method of getting things out of your mind and into a trusted organizational system. With storage space being so cheap these days it's no big deal to leave dead wood like Reminders laying around - as long as it doesn't have any security holes.OmniFocus is a powerful tool designed to follow David Allen’s Getting Things Done. I imagine Apple doesn't even have a team working on it. It does so little, as far as I can tell it does not even integrate with Calendar.
I love Apple, but Reminders seems like an ugly wart that should have been excised or replaced two or three iOS/macOS versions ago. Seeing what tools like OmniFocus are able to do also reminds me of how pathetic Apple's own Reminders app really is.
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Android support is good to have as well, and web support is always a backstop if there is no native app available for a supported operating system. I always shoot for Windows, Mac, Linux, and iOS compatibility. Cross platform access is a big deal for me. But for smaller projects, agile teams, personal/home projects, and to-do lists I've found Trello (and comparable tools that can scale to support team collaboration) are often good enough and at least worth trialing. If you're doing commercial construction, aerospace/military projects, medical systems, etc., I'm sure the bigger ticket tools are essential. The end result from a productivity and delivery standpoint doesn't appear to be much different and the lightweight tools seem to fit the agile approach somewhat better. After years of using complex and highly integrated tools for prioritizing, managing, and scheduling work, e.g., MS Project, Microsoft TFS, I've seen the pendulum swing back the other way towards very simple and low overhead Kanban oriented tools like whiteboards (with Post-Its as needed), Trello, and Slack.
OmniFocus is undoubtedly a very powerful GTD oriented tool for folks who have to manage a lot of complexity in their daily lives.
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