Alternatively, you might find it useful to filter your project to only show tasks that start within a specific date range. Information about using filters in OmniPlan is available here:
-in-task-view/#filtering-the-task-outline
@FrancisRamirez OmniPlan should certainly be able to handle the scenario you described! Hopefully you were able to sort this issue out already, but if not please send our Support team an email - omni...@omnigroup.com. Thanks!
Hi! New Omniplan user here. Im trying to figure out if Omniplan can help me with the following. Im scoping a project that has 5 tasks. Each of those require 1day of work by a single person. So I need the following:
The advantage of downloading the OmniPlan 2 for Mac User Manual from the iBooks Store is that whenever we update the docs for a new version of OmniPlan, you'll receive a notification in iBooks telling you that there's an update waiting for you. And the big win of EPUB over PDF is that any notations or bookmarks you make in the book carry forward to new versions of the documentation.
But my task manager became even more important to me in early 2016, when I started to deal with a pretty serious case of burnout. At the time, I was stressed every single day, my memory had suddenly deteriorated, and I had a lot of trouble focusing. Doubling down on my use of my task manager helped me navigate my burnout to the point where I am now: healthy, productive, and happy.
Adding tasks is faster in Things because of the magic plus button. You can tap it to create a task where you are, you can slide it to the left to add a task to the inbox, or you can drag the button to somewhere else on screen, and Things will create a task or project there depending on the context. I love the magic plus button.
In OmniFocus, there are defer dates. When you defer a task until a certain date, you imply that the task is not available to work on until that date, or that you don't intend to work on it until that date. OmniFocus then hides that task from many views.
OmniPlan 4 for Mac is available as a free download with a 14-day trial. After that, there is the traditional licensing option that starts at $199.99 but the company has launched new subscription options today that start from $19.99/month.
The Freigiest Issue 1 insert is available in three Colorplan coloured papers, randomly distributed. Each has its own concept and relevance within the broader LogoArchive project; the theme of this issue, and my own individual curiosity and aesthetic sensitivities. These include Factory Yellow; this channels the political pamphleteering of the past, maximum impact with minimum means. Pale Grey; a direct reference to the architectural theme of the main booklet. And Fuchsia Pink; a flight of visual fancy and an exploration of the potential for limited editions (there are only 50 copies of this colour).
I said that I use mobile me for syncing, but if you feel adventurous you can try to sync via webDAV, and get some advice here:Â HOWTO Setup WebDAV on Mac OS X Leopard for syncing OmniFocus to iPhone.
Omnifocus contains everything in my life. It is like a memory bank in my brain. Since I am a knowledge worker, I consider my brain is my biggest asset and I want to use it at full capacity at all times. What David Allen got right is that you should dump all your thoughts somewhere else (the capturing process), because our memory system is not perfect. From my studies of the brain, I know that I want to free up as many resources as possible so my brain can excel at full capacity for thinking, focus and decision making.
My approach is not strict to the Getting Things Done system by David Allen. Rather, it has many different influences from different people and systems. I see it as a mix of Stephen Covey (author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People), Tony Schwartz (author of The Power of Full Engagement), and GTD. Covey gives me the right mindsets, Schwartz makes me work at times and moments I feel like I can fully engage, and GTD gives me a framework to work within. Omnifocus falls in there as a tool that gives me the information I need to get work done.
I never liked the default fonts and styling that comes with Omnifocus. This is a theme I actually got from fellow Efficient Asian Aaron, which he covered in his post on Advanced Omnifocus Functionality. You can download the theme here: AE Omnifocus Style
The Omnifocus toolbar is where you can store all your access points to different parts of the program. This is where you want to put your most often used perspectives and features. The way I set it up is by putting the commonly used parts of the program on the left, and on the right side I have the features I use the least.
My question to you is, what is the best way to have OmniFocus remind me of these rituals, without assigning them due dates? The answer I keep falling back on is the simple answer of that I will catch them during my reviews, but is there a better option?
I love OmniFocus. It is an indispensable app for me and a great Mac app. For managing and organizing to-do lists and personal projects, there is nothing better. Being a great Mac app means adopting behaviors that users expect, conforming to macOS UI/UX paradigms, and for the truly great mac apps it means being scriptable. I want to share two AppleScripts that I wrote for OmniFocus to automate one of my common workflows.
I am often in a situation where I have a number of tabs open in Safari. I may be reading a collection of blog posts about how to implement a new iOS API, or I may be researching something I need, like new running shoes. I cannot always complete the task in that moment and I want to revisit it another time, or I want to save all the links for later. If they stay in Safari (even as bookmarks) they will be lost forever to me. I need to save them into OmniFocus. So I wrote an AppleScript to do that. Well, two scripts actually.
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The intent behind the Dashboard is to show me a list of tasks to be completed today. I want those tasks to be shown in order, meaning I start at the top and work to the bottom. There's no need to choose the next task because I've already decided ahead of time.
Before I get too far into this, let's go through the setup. All the Dashboard contains are tasks that are Due or Flagged. The task needs to have a due date within the next five days or I must manually flag it before it shows up here. As for the display settings, I want it to group tasks by context but sort by project.
I also sort my projects in order of importance. See a theme here? At the top of my project list is a folder called Guidance. It holds my higher horizons, reviews, and meta projects. Again, I want these at the top of the list because these projects keep my daily activities in alignment with my long-term goals. With the Dashboard sorted by project, the tasks within the context groupings maintain the priority I give my projects. I should also note that all projects in this Guidance folder are flagged and their tasks are given the @Admin context. The flag is what pulls them into the Dashboard and the context ensures they will always be at the top.
The projects at the very top are my reviews: daily, weekly, monthly, and annual in that order. I need to complete my daily review before I go on to the weekly review. The same goes for the monthly and annual reviews. I can't make decisions about which projects to take on or drop if there are still unprocessed tasks in my inbox. The system must be up-to-date beforehand. Again, these projects are flagged and all their tasks are given the @Admin context, so these tasks show up in the first grouping of the Dashboard.
Underneath my reviews are a couple meta projects I've put in place to help me accomplish my weekly commitments and the projects that are important to me. The first is called Important Projects and it's set to repeat daily. It's a simple list that helps me put valued projects first and it's the first thing I do once my reviews are completed. These aren't tasks themselves but they prompt me to go elsewhere in OmniFocus to complete a task that pertains to the original item.
The nice thing about this Dashboard is that it is mostly robotic. It happens on its own. Each day these tasks show up without me needing to do anything. But there's risk involved with that. You can become numb to seeing them every day; if you skip one day, it becomes easy to skip them the next; or you start looking through the list, get overwhelmed by it, and do nothing. For me, the problem can arise when I start re-thinking my previous decisions that led to the list in the first place. I'm not always the best at sticking to it, but I know if I trust my previous self that I have a greater tendency to create flow and accomplish more by the end of the day.
The counter to this problem is to schedule a time for clearing inboxes daily. My work moves on a day-to-day basis so I know I need to make these decisions daily. But there have been times when I have two or three critical, fast-moving projects running at once. In those cases, I schedule two or three times a day to empty inboxes.
I say this because it is easy to spend more time setting up tools than it is learning the intricacies and nuances of GTD. For example, I only learned to capture high-level projects because I had a system I know and understand well. If I would continue switching tools regularly, I would be tempted to spend time learning the ins and outs of the tool instead of focusing on where I spend my time.
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