Dear Meg. Thanks a lot for your video and for share with us the way you are using OmniFocus, I am an OmniFocus fan as well and I was always trying to find ways to adapt OmniFocus for GTD, great ideas from your vid. Cheers!!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Hi Meg. Once again, an amazing video. I've been using GTD and OF for over a decade and, as time passes, I naturally make it more complex. Rearranging everything in a simpler manner makes it so much easier to work. Your videos were my trigger to simplify it once more. The only part I still don't get it is how you effectively use OF as a reference tool. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience.
That's great you are doing another round of making OF more simple. I continue to do this when I find I too have made OF more complex than I need it to be. :) For me OF is for my current reference and Evernote is more for archive reference I want to keep. I clean up my OF reference folders 2x a year, more or less, to make sure it is current. Frankly, I don't keep much reference in OF as for work we keep our reference in google docs, as others need access to this information.
I love these videos Meg! I would be rlly looking forward to a showcase of ur Higher Horizons of Focus. This is something I am currently building rn myself.
I am glad you are finding value in these videos. Yes, I am planning on doing one on the Higher Horizons so stay tuned as I don't have a date for this yet.
I see this a lot with my clients. I have to be so honest with myself with due dates and to keep them to hard external due dates vs. "I'd like to get it done by. " due dates. :).
@@TheZemackdaddy - Thank you for your question. At this time, I do not need to track any daily or weekly recurring tasks, either personally or professionally. I do need to track monthly tasks and that is in my tickler. Some of those actions are monthly recurring actions like start the generator but I find I want the flexibility of deciding given the weather what day would be best at the beginning of every month and then I schedule the time in my calendar. What I found in the past is I grew numb to recurring tasks as I was being reminded when I really didn't want to see it at that time. Once I did track some daily tasks and I just created it in the word doc and printed it out as I wanted it on paper vs. in OF. What I always do is ask myself, what is this and how would I best like to be reminded to do this action and be reminded in a way that I would snooze, ignore it or just go numb to it. But again this is the way I do it and you may have recurring tasks that would benefit from using defer dates in OF and their other great features.
quick question, why not use OF4 new version?? ( whit the new preserve hierarchy in forecast, that allow to use forecast tag+defer date for schedule all project and use due date as deadline?)
Dear Meg. Thanks a lot for your video and for share with us the way you are using OmniFocus, I am an OmniFocus fan as well and I was always trying to find ways to adapt OmniFocus for GTD, great ideas from your vid. Cheers!!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
This is gold! Thank you.
Thanks Meg! Needed this! I have far too much reference in actionable. ❤
Hi Meg. Once again, an amazing video. I've been using GTD and OF for over a decade and, as time passes, I naturally make it more complex. Rearranging everything in a simpler manner makes it so much easier to work. Your videos were my trigger to simplify it once more. The only part I still don't get it is how you effectively use OF as a reference tool. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience.
That's great you are doing another round of making OF more simple. I continue to do this when I find I too have made OF more complex than I need it to be. :) For me OF is for my current reference and Evernote is more for archive reference I want to keep. I clean up my OF reference folders 2x a year, more or less, to make sure it is current. Frankly, I don't keep much reference in OF as for work we keep our reference in google docs, as others need access to this information.
I love these videos Meg! I would be rlly looking forward to a showcase of ur Higher Horizons of Focus. This is something I am currently building rn myself.
I am glad you are finding value in these videos. Yes, I am planning on doing one on the Higher Horizons so stay tuned as I don't have a date for this yet.
What a great Video. love to see how you handle Horizons of focus in Omnifocus. Need some help implent the HoF in Omnifocus
Yes, I will be doing this in the near future and can show folks how I use Omni for the HH. Thanks Meg
646 past due items in my forecast. Splendid video Meg.
I see this a lot with my clients. I have to be so honest with myself with due dates and to keep them to hard external due dates vs. "I'd like to get it done by. " due dates. :).
I'd love to see daily and recurring tasks. Do you have repeating tasks in your tickler?
I mean Moore of how you handle daily and weekly recurring things without using defer dates, for example.
@@TheZemackdaddy - Thank you for your question. At this time, I do not need to track any daily or weekly recurring tasks, either personally or professionally. I do need to track monthly tasks and that is in my tickler. Some of those actions are monthly recurring actions like start the generator but I find I want the flexibility of deciding given the weather what day would be best at the beginning of every month and then I schedule the time in my calendar. What I found in the past is I grew numb to recurring tasks as I was being reminded when I really didn't want to see it at that time. Once I did track some daily tasks and I just created it in the word doc and printed it out as I wanted it on paper vs. in OF. What I always do is ask myself, what is this and how would I best like to be reminded to do this action and be reminded in a way that I would snooze, ignore it or just go numb to it. But again this is the way I do it and you may have recurring tasks that would benefit from using defer dates in OF and their other great features.
quick question, why not use OF4 new version?? ( whit the new preserve hierarchy in forecast, that allow to use forecast tag+defer date for schedule all project and use due date as deadline?)
Hi, I will be moving to OF4 at some point and will give their new features a try.