Category: Productivity
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How to reorder projects in OmniFocus
I’ve started to use OmniFocus folders as my areas of focus, such as career and financial. Within these I have projects such as podcast and blog. They are building up and seem to stay in the same order they are created in. Well the good news is that you can reorder these. To do this…
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How to quickly get back home in OmniFocus
Whilst listening to an episode of Mac Power Users there was a really great tip shared by David when using OmniFocus. I wanted to post this to help me remember more than anything but hopefully you will find this useful too. If you are deep down in a project and want to quickly get back…
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How to quickly add a repeating task in OmniFocus
I do a lot of repeating tasks and found creating them in OmniFocus a little time consuming. For each task I had to tap ‘show more’ in the inspector and before I could do anything with it. Thankfully I’ve found a quicker way. Tap on any task you’ve already created (this won’t work on a…
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How to build habits using OmniFocus
I’ve used a few different apps over the years to try to build good habits but in the end they all fall by the wayside. The main reason for this is I’m not seeing or being reminded of them. When switching over to OmniFocus I thought I’d use their tagging system to help me with…
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How to view tags in your forecast view (OmniFocus)
A useful feature in OmniFocus 3 is the ability to add tags to your tasks. Whilst looking at the forecast view I realised I could customise and show 1 tag along with my calendar and scheduled tasks. I find this useful when I have something I’d like to get done but don’t necessarily want to…
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How I use folders in OmniFocus
I’ve had an on/off relationship with OmniFocus over the years but with a period of overwhelm I’ve decided to stick with it and learn how to actually use it effectively. When plotting out my overwhelm I used a mind map and split everything into areas of focus. I did this is an earlier post but…
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How I do a brain dump (GTD, capture, Apple Notes and TickTick)
I was feeling overwhelmed and my TO DO apps weren’t serving me well so I did a brain dump to get everything out of my head and into a system to bring some calm and planning into my life, something I really need right now. I took my iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil and…
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Setting up GoodTask
Now I’m firmly in the using iCloud camp both Calendar and Reminders have become very important to me. Whilst Calendar is fine Reminders hasn’t seen an update in years. I’ve been raising radars to Apple for years and all my suggestions for improvements have been ignored. I think Reminders is now only updated for compatibility…
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How I organise Apple Reminders
I’ve started to only use Apple apps these days, maybe I’m getting old or maybe I restore too many devices. I just can’t be bothered to remember all the log in information for the many to do apps I’ve tried or don’t trust them with my data. Here’s how I’ve organised into Apple Reminders. You’ll…
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My next productivity experiment
Now I’ve given Things a good crack I’m dipping back into Omnifocus. I’ll report back on my thoughts in a month.
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Why I stopped using Things 3
Things 3 is a great looking app that had lots of potential for me but after trying multiple times I’ve stopped trying to fit it in with my workflow. The bad I experienced missing notifications. I’d set a reminder and it wouldn’t show so I’d forget to do my task, my number one show stopper…
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My Todoist setup
I’m getting back on plan, left things slide a bit and tried to use iCloud to get things done. I’ve failed miserably and need to get back to using a third party app to keep me on task. I’ve always come back to Todoist or Omnifocus but Todoist gets my vote just now. I like…
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On using Apple Reminders and Calendar
I’ve tried to use a combination of reminders and calendar on iOS to manage my life over the last week. I’ve tried using both apps separately and Fantastical as the interface. Both haven’t stuck with me. Fantastical has become more stressful having calendar and reminders in one view and switching to using the poor Reminders…
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Organising into Apple Reminders
I’m done with third party to do apps (famous last words), I’m feeling overwhelmed. I was in the car and used CarPlay to add a few things I needed to do via Siri. I also gave the Siri watch face a go and surprisingly liked it. Both of these combined gave me some clarity in…
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