If you’ve ever wondered about the biggest thing that Omnifocus does then this video is for you. You’ll be learning about how to “Plan Like a Master” in a short 10 minute video and learn one important thing — what to avoid putting into Omnifocus. This is a follow up from Part 1 “How Omnifocus Quick Entry Captures Everything” (click here).
The first thing you learn about is just creating a project. Easy enough right? Omnifocus brings Omnioutliner’s outlining power into it so you can break down a big project like “turn the world blue” into a lot of smaller actions that will make it happen.
Next you find out that you can go a step further. What if “turn the world blue” is only one part of your master plan to “take over the world?” like Pinky and the Brain? Well then all you have to do is create a folder for the project.
If you follow Getting Things Done by David Allen
In the video the examples of house and car are used. You can then create projects that will help you manage these other areas of your life. ”Take care of Kyla”, “Clean the car after the road trip” and other projects are good examples in the case of Jon’s life.
In addition, keeping your project titles short will keep Omnifocus fast and lean. Write a longer description of the project in Notes using Command + ‘ (apostrophe). Same for the folder names.
Finally you get one important point about Omnifocus — avoid clipping movies, pictures and sound clips if possible especially from Web sites or email. You can if you want however it can really slow the whole task or project management system down.
Expect a Part 3: What Due Dates Do For You in Omnifocus next.
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