Quote:
Originally Posted by Flames Fan, Ph.D.
OF helps me to really capture ideas and then organize them. So my recommendation would be to rapidly familiarize yourself with the keyboard shortcut (control-option-space by default, I think) to bring up the little menu to capture ideas. Works great for me. I toss things in there all the time, regardless of how important I perceive they *may* be.
I'm not a big GTD guy in that my tasks are a little more fluid and of the "things to spend time thinking about" variety rather than "reply to this email" type. However, through Omnifocus I've been able to capture ideas into the inbox, then filter those into the specific projects I've set up in the library.
The interesting thing is that the feature I've really, really appreciated is the Forecast in the iPhone app that is absent in the desktop app. I currently use Fantastical to capture calendar events, and iPhone OF pulls those up in the Forecast. But I could see myself cutting one more program out of my workflow once Forecast shows up on the desktop OF.
|
Yeah, forecast on the desktop will be killer.
And I agree with using the quick entry to catch those fleeting thoughts for follow up on. I'll even capture a song I hear to remind me to listen to a particular band that catches my interest at the time.
Another great way to quickly add stuff to OF is to add the bookmarklet to Safari, which lets you send a link to the current page to an OF task. I am pretty close to using this technique in place of Instapaper to keep track of stuff i want to read later.
If you're a Alfred user (and if you're not, what is WRONG with you?) Don South has some nice scripts to allow you to pop things into Omnifocus from Alfred using natural language, another nice little bit of integration. Check it out here:
http://www.dirtdon.com/?p=963