Beyond OmniFocus: You ⇾
Some thoughts on looking past the tweaking and really examining your behavior.
A Good Brain Dump ⇾
Ben Brooks shares another tip on how he uses OmniFocus, this time for brain dumps. I like the concept — he goes through his contexts and quickly dumps in any tasks/errands that come to his mind. Very handy.
He doesn’t call this a review, but in essence it’s a part of GTDs weekly review concept. That’s the beauty of productivity though — you don’t have to follow a manual. Just be self aware and find what works for you.
Then stick with it.
Since I already own versions of OmniFocus for the iPhone and desktop, this looks like an easy sell for me. I love Things as well, but the lack of a OTA sync has been extremely frustrating with three clients. So much so that I’ve basically stopped using it.
So I found it interesting that the page for OmniFocus for the iPad states:
It’s simple to maintain one task management database across several devices with any of our several options for syncing wirelessly.
That is an interesting opening statement. Not sure I need to spend another $40 on a task management app though …
While OmniFocus is definitely too detailed for many folks, I appreciate some of the flexibility it offers. As a long time user of Things, I found that I often wanted to simply nest a few tasks rather than create a new project. This lack finally drove me to switch to the more complex OmniFocus.
One feature that I had no idea was included in OmniFocus is theming. Hidden in the Style Preference pane, you can load custom created themes. Now, this is not full extent theming like you see in Growl or Adium. It’s more akin to theming in Textmate, with a focus on fonts, text color and backgrounds.
Still, if you’re an OmniFocus user who doesn’t like the default look, it’s not hard to make it look fairly different. Maybe a little more like The Hit List.
[ via Justin Blanton ]
