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Tag Archives: OmniFocus
How often is weekly: a reflection on OmniFocus reviews
How often should we press the Review button on the OmniFocus toolbar? The GTD system recommends weekly reviews. By default OmniFocus creates a weekly review schedule for each project (although you can change it through the Project Inspector). This is logical … Continue reading
Academic writing, task management, and OmniFocus
Task management systems, invented to increase focus and productivity, may become a source of distraction and procrastination. I certainly learned that when I tried to integrate my academic writing with OmniFocus. OmniFocus provides reminders, information, and space to decide what should … Continue reading
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Tagged NValt, OmniFocus, OmniOutliner, Pomodoro, TaskPaper
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Task management with OmniFocus: reviewing
Weekly review is a key element of the GTD system. Without it, lists of tasks and projects quickly become outdated leading to loss of trust and eventually to irrelevance of your task management system. Although reviews do not depend on a particular … Continue reading
Task management with OmniFocus: doing
Processing and organizing with OmniFocus is often so helpful on its own that I don’t even need to look into OmniFocus to go through the daily tasks. In other situations, OmniFocus is really necessary to remind of today’s priorities. OmniFocus cannot … Continue reading
5 things to keep out of OmniFocus
OmniFocus makes it deceptively easy to quickly add and organize tasks and projects. But there is a trap in trying to keep all your stuff in one place. First, no software is fit for all purposes; and second no software … Continue reading
Task management with OmniFocus: organizing
The last post explained using OmniFocus for the first two GTD phases: collecting and processing. This post covers the next GTD phase: organizing. Organizing lets you focus on a small number of your tasks in any given situation rather than … Continue reading
Task management with OmniFocus: collecting and processing
People stressed by their impossible to-do lists do not want to hear about philosophical principles of task management. Instead, they urgently want to know which software to use. Though I do believe in some principles, in this post I will … Continue reading