Having become somewhat accustomed to using Areas of Focus, I found that folders in OmniFocus let me do just that. Specifically, I tagged tasks as either Personal or Work or Home, which allowed me to save searches that incorporated these tags for use while I was at the house or office. When I started using Doit a few years before, I started to use tags to emulate Areas of Focus.
Some GTD practitioners use Areas of Focus (buckets specific to areas of your life or roles in which you serve) and I had never found much use for them personally.
There’s an option in OmniFocus that grabs reminders and converts them to Inbox tasks. I can capture tasks via email (by sending a message to a pre-defined email address with the OmniSync service) or by asking Siri to set a reminder. When I clear my Inbox, I assign everything to a project (or a Single Actions list) and determine its context. I review and clear out my Inbox daily, typically when I arrive at the office and before I start my day. General UsageĮverything that I need to do, if it takes longer than two minutes and/or I’m not somewhere that I can do it, goes into my Inbox. Then review your lists on a regular basis (quickly each day, more in depth each week) and consider larger life goals in deciding when to do the projects you have on your plate.įor an idea of how I use the GTD principles in a variety of complementary tools, please see my previous post that outlines my time and task management workflows. Prioritize them and assign them a relevant context (e.g., home, work, phone) based on where you need to be or what you need in order to accomplish the individual tasks. In a nutshell, the concept is that you don’t want to expend energy (or perhaps more appropriately, mental capacity) trying to remember things get them out of your head and into your system, whether that system is a paper-based list or a software application. I first read David’s book in 2006 and implemented his principles at that time he released a second edition last year which I’ve also read. GTD is a time- and task-management methodology based on the book, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen. I’m an extremely diligent GTD ( Getting Things Done) practitioner and frankly, both my personal and professional lives would be a mess without it.
I’ve been using OmniFocus for about a year now and it seems like the right time to post a comprehensive review of it and how it’s worked for me.
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