As noted above, these are reviewed monthly. At the most “unconscious” are those that are completed or dropped.There are several levels of “consciousness” that the projects here exist in. These are projects that I have put tasks together and wait. I prefer my daily repeating tasks to show up first, my projects that require some action today to show up next, and my cleanup of the task system itself to show up at the end.Īreas of Responsibility and “Levels of Consciousness”Īreas of responsibility are folders that have folders and projects within them. The reason for the placement of the “Routine Maintenance” folder at the top and the “OmniFocus Maintenance” at bottom of the Project view is in how they present in the Context view. Flagged Projects Review (repeated daily)Īll have “OmniFocus” set as their context.
OMNIFOCUS WINDOWS 10 ARCHIVE
Archive Completed Projects (repeated monthly).Review Projects On Hold (repeated monthly).Review “Waiting for …” (repeated daily).Separately, there is also a folder at the bottom of the Projects called “Omnifocus Maintenance” with one project inside called Routine OmniFocus Organization. Things like practice piano, clear the laptop desktop, etc… Inside I have projects labeled “Daily”, “Weekly”, and “Monthly.” These all carry simple tasks that are set to repeat at the interval of their namesakes. It will wait for me until I feel ready to go back there from my focused project.Ī folder labeled “Routine Maintenance” rests at the top of my project list. Whenever something I’d like to get done today comes to mind, I can get to quick entry and enter today’s date as the start date and it will show in my main context view. This way, I have that project ready to go as its own entity and the treading water window is still available. I’ll then return to the general “Treading Water” window. If there are a group of tasks in a particular project I need to do in a day, I will mark one of them with the start date and then use the alt-option-r function (Show in Planning Mode) to jump to the Project and double click the Project to have it in its own window. This way, I separate those things that are treading water and those things that will move me ahead either in work or in fun. My goal is to get through this window so that I can do either number 3 or 4 listed above. I think I’m allergic to the orange and red. Anything that really needs a due date gets one, but I try to stay away from that as much as possible. It is a context view with the “start date” as the grouping characteristic and “available” as the grouping filter. It carries all of my repeated actions and those things that I have assigned to start today. The treading water window is my main window. The goal for me in getting things done is in getting past treading water. I try not to have more than 5 flagged at any one time (I often break this rule, ah well). One flagged project I want to get done (music, video games … ) (minimized)įlagged projects are those that I want to remain in my consciousness.
OMNIFOCUS WINDOWS 10 SOFTWARE
There are likely many ways of using the task management software OmniFocus, but as I’ve been using it for a while, I’ve adapted my own methods and thought it worthwhile to make mention of them. The following began as a comment to a thread over at the OmniFocus blog …
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