In recognition of how much this software-assisted cycle has helped me over the years, and in the hope that it may help someone else as well, this article describes several strategies I use when working with this glorified to-do list program.
These become the raw materials for actionable tasks that, eventually, wind up on the next day-long shortlist, with all its invitingly empty checkboxes. Between tasks I revisit the app’s Inbox pane, reviewing the jotted-down proto-tasks I’ve recently captured for later cogitation, deciding the next steps for each. In this pattern, I consult the program’s Forecast pane throughout the day, both to whittle down my daily task-list and to build up the next day’s priorities. After so many years, I have found my best approach yet of working with OmniFocus, such that it feels far more like a companionable assistant than a burdensome nag. Today finds me stepping through a pleasantly extended dance with the big purple checkmark on my Mac’s dock. Either way, I always find reason to return and stick with it once again for a long time. Exactly once I took the opportunity of a new major release to declare “OmniFocus bankruptcy”, punting countless stale projects to start fresh with an empty task-database. Not consistently, mind you - more than once I’ve let weeks, even months pass without tending to its lists of lists.
#USING OMNIFOCUS MAC#
I do not exaggerate to say that the Mac edition of OmniFocus has served as the glue of my life as a doer-of-things over this whole span. This year marks my tenth anniversary using OmniFocus, the small family of Mac and iOS productivity applications from the Omni Group.
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