Category: GTD

OmniFocus: My Life Management Software

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Background

I wrote this back in September:

At the end of the day, I don’t give a crap about categorizing tasks due to location, topic, tags or what color shirt I’m wearing. All I need is a convenient way to list tasks and their deadlines. Nothing more; nothing less.

Shockingly simple, I know.

For me and my simple needs, Things and OmniFocus are overkill. With systems like this, I spend more time entering tasks than doing them. When I was using Things, by the time I was done going over the day’s to-do list, it was time for lunch. OmniFocus just gives me seizures.

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OmniFocused

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Patrick Rhone, in Episode 10 of the Enough podcast:

It’s not like you can buy app and magically solve your productivity problems.

That said, Patrick builds a great case for OmniFocus, but builds an even better case for selecting the right tool — not necessarily the most popular or nicest one.

Every episode of this show is better than the one before it.

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The Quest for Simple Task Management

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Two days ago, I wrote this in response to a piece by Joshua Schnell on managing tasks:

Getting too wrapped up in how I manage my tasks doesn’t leave me any time to actually do my tasks.

My buddy (and former boss at our college’s newspaper) Trey Heath wrote this, concerning the same topic:

I am a huge fan of GTD and since I started following the methodology four years ago, I can say without a doubt that GTD has made me 100% LESS productive.

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How I Get Things Done

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Getting Things Done ( GTD) has always been important to me. I’m busy and I forget things, so over the years, I have tried various methods to keep up with my tasks using everything from my old Newton 2100 to a Moleskine journal. I never really found anything to meet my three and a half basic requirements:

  • 1. Be portable (and easy to use on the go)
  • 2. Be able to filter tasks under different categories
  • 3. Be simple

When Leopard was announced, I was looking forward to Notes on Leopard syncing with Notes on the iPhone, but alas, Apple pulled that feature before the final release of 10.5.

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