![]() ![]() Of course if you’re already a satisfied OmniFocus user, having the iPhone version makes perfect sense. Those without experience with OmniFocus, who are looking for a more straightforward to-do application (and OmniFocus is clearly more than that) that offers some GTD elements, are probably going to be more comfortable with something like It takes some effort to wrap your head around what the application expects from you. And that’s an example of the kind of thing that might turn people away from using OmniFocus on the iPhone. ![]() You can certainly learn it, but it’s hardly intuitive. Sound confusing? It can be, as you have to fully embrace the concept of contexts. ![]() Or you can assign a particular business type‚ say, the market‚ as a location and when you choose the context associated with that business, OmniFocus will locate the businesses of that type to you. From there you can search within Maps for business types-grocery or hardware stores, for instance. Tap the location next to a particular context, and the Maps application launches and shows you that location. Tap the Locations icon and you’re taken to a nearby screen where you see your contexts and associated actions sorted by location. So, for example, you might assign a central street name downtown‚ Main Street, for instance‚ as your Errands location. You do this by assigning locations to contexts. OmniFocus for the iPhone attempts to leverage the iPhone’s advantages by adding a Location feature that gathers together contexts based on their location and then grouping together those contexts. For example, you can use a context for all the things you want to do when you’re downtown, or another for the market, or yet another for when you’re traveling to visit your sister. This comes in particularly handy with a mobile device like the iPhone as you can create contexts for when you’re on the move. (These would include those activities and tasks associated with the beach and the mountains.) Once you’ve created these actions and assigned context and project categories to them, you can then view all of them by tapping the Relax project or choose the subset Beach or Mountains actions by tapping their respective contexts. Then create a broader Relax project where you file all your leisure to-dos. Create another Mountains context and file your Go Skiing and Resole Hiking Boots actions there. Using contexts and projects you might create something like this: Create Build Sandcastle and Go Surfing actions and file them in a Beach context you’ve created. (Although OmniFocus works on the iPod touch as well, these two specific features are not supported, as the touch lacks a camera and microphone.) (Unfortunately you can’t append a picture from the iPhone’s Photos area.) And you can record a bit of audio and attach it to the action. The iPhone version includes smart groups, which resemble pre-built perspectives that include Due Soon, Overdue, and Flagged, but you can’t create your own smart groups.Īdditionally, with the iPhone version you can add a picture to the action by tapping the Take Photo button and using the iPhone’s camera to grab an appropriate picture. The interface has been simplified so that all elements are accessible on the iPhone, so there’s no Perspective feature (for creating custom views of your data). It’s likely OmniFocus for the iPhone‚ although not as deep as the desktop version‚ will be similarly viewed.Īnd in what ways is the iPhone version shallower? There’s no support for repeating tasks or syncing with the iPhone’s Calendar application, for example. Others, confounded by OmniFocus’ occasional complexities, wonder if maybe they’d have more time to get things done if they spent less time trying to figure out how OmniFocus can aid their organizational efforts. Many people who buy intoĭavid Allen’s Getting Things Done workflow philosophy (and who take the time to learn more about how GTD is done) find OmniFocus to be a powerful tool for creating and organizing tasks. OmniFocus ( ), has both proponents and detractors. The Omni Group’s getting things done (GTD) desktop application for the Mac, ![]()
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