![]() ![]() I usually prefer this over creating blocks on my calendar for individual tasks unless they are "deep thought" tasks or time consuming. In my daily review, I look at Waiting actions and follow up as needed.Īlso, if you're deferring tasks until an appropriate start time, you will see them (against) your actual calendar in OF. When I get a response, I complete the action. When I email someone for this address, the action is not complete until I get a response, so I leave the action open and change the context from "office" to "waiting". So if I need an address for a meeting, I might have an action "Determine location for off-site meeting". ![]() I set the context of the next action about which I've inquired to Waiting. In OF, if I'm waiting for someone to respond to an inquiry, I don't create a new next action for it. ![]() Then the context is assigned as applicable (e.g., office, agenda/staff). Meeting just to meet would be a waste of everyone's time there must be some purpose to meeting, right? That's your next action, not the meeting itselfįor example, if the meeting is to review requirements, the next action may be "review requirements" or "get group feedback on requirements document". Ideally, I would like to have them both listed within the project AND on the calendar, but as this is not possible (or not done palatably) in most apps I keep them only on the calendar, and have them sent over 15 hours in advance to my list manager. I will "activate" the following action when it becomes relevant (unless I use an app that does that automatically.)Ĭalendar actions are a bit of a difficulty with most apps. If the first/next action is not a Next action but a Waiting For action or a Calendar action, and if I cannot do any of the subsequent Next actions until after the first action is done, then I simply leave it at that. If any of you want to repost under your own names, please feel free. In the text below, we've added the replies to the original post. We apologize to jenkins, and to Folke and jdavidcarr who posted replies. The reason is that we made a mistake in deleting a spam post that was added to the thread, and deleted the whole thread. It suits you for both simple needs and complex needs.You may have noticed that this thread by jenkins appeared on January 23 and is showing as new today. I recommend that you check it out and see if it suits you and your to do needs. You can find Omnifocus in the App Store for £29.99 here. You can defer tasks, and you can also change dates and times for the tasks.Īll in all, Omnifocus is a very powerful application, and this review only skimmed the top of it. You can also add images and voice recordings to a task, along with notes. Omnifocus also has an option of different themes, and this means that you can change it to suit how you want it to look. The review feature allows you to review projects to make sure you have not missed out on something you have to do. This is useful if you are in school, and you have a location reminder reminding you to give in a piece of work or something like that. It also shows a snippet of your calendar in it. It is where all your tasks that you need to do for today and that were due in the past go. You could also have a context for people, so a teacher for example, that you need to complete the task (if you have to give something in to them).įorecast is the core of Omnifocus. Contexts are things that you need to complete the task for example, you can have a context and this means that you need your computer to complete the task. One of my favourite features of Omnifocus is contexts. You can make projects to manage things which require lots of tasks. Getting used to Omnifocus does take some time, however it is a very powerful app. ![]()
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