Omnifocus was created by the Omni Group, a group of developers If you follow the getting things done method of organization, Omnifocus may be for you. During the review, I’ll just scroll down the projects I have open and ask the following. I keep a folder for every major aspect of my life and then sort projects under each of those. Review upcoming week and add any triggered action steps in Omnifocus Review Projects in Omnifocus I use my Omnifocus a little different than most people.
See an overview of all tasks via Perspective 5. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website.Top reasons why people like Omnifocus: 1. It’s been mostly successful.Out of Omni Group OmniFocus 2 Pro Review these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are Omni Group OmniFocus 2 Pro Review stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. I dedicated myself to running my home and work projects with nothing but OmniFocus 3 for the past month. This article is concerned with the latest version of OmniFocus for iOS. My bonafides with GTD, task managers, and OmniFocus is easily discovered here on Macdrifter.
This was hard to fake in Things 3. I have deep projects with multiple sub-projects. Core Features that I Missed from OmniFocusAfter switching to Things 3 I really missed the task nesting in OmniFocus. OF3 is incredibly powerful for anyone with a large complex project but Things 3 is a UI joy for average work.
Nesting projects and folders works perfectly though.Location alerts were one of my favorite features of OmniFocus but after a long time without them, I don’t find them all that important to me now. I will admit that the option to nest tasks inside other tasks is a little non-obvious. Structure is dictated by me, not the application.
When it does work, it feels futuristic.Reviews! I missed the review process in OmniFocus the most of all. I suspect this is an issue with iOS and has less to do with OmniFocus. I stopped putting shopping lists in my task manager so it doesn’t matter as much if I get an alert from OmniFocus when I get to Home Depot or the grocery store.Unfortunately, I rarely get notifications for my tags even after increasing the perimeter for the location.
That process takes a lot of taps still. One of the most common things I want to do during a review is to change the review period for a project. It just feels more organic in OmniFocus 3, if still a little tedious.There are some surprisingly awkward interactions in the OmniFocus review system. Sure, I’ve rigged up a lot of crazy systems in order to force myself to review tasks in other applications.
The Omni Group did a nice job making sure that tag hierarchy is respected for search, so this means all of the nice context nesting from OmniFocus 2 works perfectly with OmniFocus 3 tags. It was this long unscratched itch that made me curious enough to return to OmniFocus 3 and give it a serious try.Tags provide more flexibility than contexts simply because each task in OmniFocus can have multiple tags. It was the lack of tags in OmniFocus 2 that eventually drove me to TaskPaper several years back. Contexts lost their value for me around iOS 6 when I had a super computer in my pocket every day that also connected to my work email. TagsI’ve been ringing the “tags, tags, tags” bell for a long time. It’s a minor gripe but another rough edge where interactions feel inconsistent.Now on to some of the new hotness in OmniFocus 3 (and some old busted too).
I have a tag called “easy” which gives me a great way to blast out a few tasks in the morning from my Forecast view. I have a tag for my office because some things can only be done there. If I’m in a one on one meeting I can search by the person’s name and still see the individual items they are working on.I’m also using tags in the traditional context model too. When I’m in a team meeting I search by tag and bring up a view of tasks related to that team.
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Just type part of a tag (or it’s parent tag) to get a list of tasks. This is very nice but all of these features lack keyboard shortcut equivalents, which makes OmniFocus 3 very touchy.Tags are easily searched in OmniFocus 3 so it’s easy to quickly surface information. I haven’t found a use case for this feature yet.When viewing a task, I can tap and hold on a tag to quickly jump to view all tasks with that tag. If a project has a collection of tags, any task added to that project automatically gets the same tags. They don’t always have due dates but even if they do, they show up.Project tags are also inherited by the tasks. So my Forecast view shows what’s coming due plus a collection of “easy” things I can do in under a minute each.
For example, with the new three pane view, to get to a project’s details I must tap the project and then tap the “Show More” link at the bottom. But, on the iPad it adds more friction with no real benefit. For the most part this works better on the iPhone where space is more limited. Task details are now minimized unless the user taps for more detail.
Just look at the help screen for the check circle.When the check box needs a grid like that, I think it’s time to give up on the design.While I do like it overall, the new Forecast view isn’t perfect. For example, the decision to layer information around the check circle still seems poorly implemented. However, the new design kept the old problems.
This is an area where OmniFocus is amazingly helpful. Perspectives now have many more ways to filter tasks. This allows me to quick re-prioritize my day when things aren’t going as planned.With all of the new support for tags, OmniFocus really beefed up one of their flag ship features. By simply grabbing a task that’s due today and dragging it to one of the future dates, I can reset the due date. Usually I just want a list of tasks at the top with calendar events below that.The drag and drop feature in the Forecast view is a very convenient way to postpone tasks. Most of the time my due dates only accidentally have specific times.
Unfortunately, the Things 3 email address is so “clever” that the corporate email filters at work never allow outgoing messages to the address. Other HighlightsThe email-to-OmniFocus service works well. I’d like more options to create custom boards or even drag tasks to a perspective to force it to co-exist without fiddling with the task details. They are still mostly the same with a couple of new filters.
This is not OmniFocus’ fault.This version of OmniFocus is very buggy. I occasionally forget the syntax to get Siri to send a task to OmniFocus at which point I regret even trying. In OmniFocus 3, if I search for a project and then want to add a task to it, I need to then tap and hold a select “Go to Project” before adding the task.Adding tasks with Siri works as well as it did in OmniFocus 2. From virtually anywhere in that app I can add tasks. 1 This is not a new feature, just one I missed.I’ve been spoiled by Things 3’s magic add feature.
These new iOS apps feel a bit like previews of what might be a great task management stack. The Omni Group just announced the beta access for the web version of OmniFocus 3. The new Mac app is not available yet. Which, I think is my conclusion about this version.
I also prefer the airy design of Things 3 over OmniFocus 3, which feels simultaneously cluttered and empty. The Perspectives are wonderful for anyone with a complex project list that just needs to bounce from meeting to meeting and also get some work done.If my work simplifies and I no longer run projects with a dozen different sub-teams then I would happily return to Things 3 and its keyboard driven interactions. These problems are only tolerable since I really need the deep structure that only OmniFocus (and plain text) can provide.
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