Why I Use OmniFocus

I have, and con­tinue to try all sorts of new task man­age­ment pro­grams out there, from the sim­ple Taskpa­per to the more com­plex solu­tions such as Lotus Notes. Every time, with­out fail, I come full cir­cle back to Omni­Fo­cus. I found myself ask­ing myself what it is about Omni­Fo­cus that keeps me com­ing back, and what it is about Omni­Fo­cus that keeps me want­ing to try new programs. The Why As it turns out the ‘why’ of the ques­tion is fairly... Read More

OmniFocus, GTD, and You!

The Omn­i­group: Get the White Paper: White Paper .  Read More

OmniFocus: Recurring Projects Make Great Grocery Lists

One of the fea­tures that I love about Omni­Fo­cus is not only can you cre­ate a recur­ring action, but you can cre­ate a recur­ring project. At my com­pany there are a series of reports that I have to do each month, they each involve a lot of actions, that for the most part I know, but occa­sion­ally I miss a step. To solve this prob­lem I cre­ated a recur­ring project, with all the actions to com­plete the project neatly out­lined, it pops up in Omni­Fo­cus... Read More

OmniFocus Criticisms

I have made it very clear on this site, that my cho­sen / pre­ferred task man­ager is Omni­Fo­cus by The Omni Group. I rarely crit­i­cize the pro­gram, and have given many tips and tricks related to it. Omni­Fo­cus is not, by any means a per­fect pro­gram, so I wanted to write this post to talk about some of the crit­i­cisms that I have about OmniFocus. The Crit­i­cisms Visual styling the pro­gram is not as nice and flashy as it is in Things, The Hit List, and... Read More

OmniFocus for iPhone Tips

Sync Files to OmniFocus I am sure you are aware that you can attach and alias to Omni­Fo­cus on your Mac, if not just drag a file to an action and it will attach the file as an alias (or link) to that file. How­ever if you hold down Option while you drag the file in, it embeds the file to the action. This means that when you sync with your iPhone, it will sync that file. If your iPhone can open the file, it will inside of OmniFocus. Read More  Read More

OmniFocus Screencast

I will be mak­ing more screen­casts if it goes over well, so please do leave com­ments if you like it, and what else you would like to see. You can also down­load a full ver­sion of the video on Vimeo. Omni­Fo­cus Screen­cast from Ben Brooks on Vimeo.  Read More

Staying Organised With Omnifocus

Stay­ing organ­ised with omni­fo­cus on Vimeo  Read More

GTD Interview With Omnigroup’s CEO

Lots of back­ground on Omn­i­group and Omnifocus. Link  Read More

10 OmniFocus Power Tips

I am a huge fan of Omni­Fo­cus for Mac and iPhone, so I thought I would share some things that I feel give Omni­Fo­cus the edge for task management. Esti­mated Time: Being able to add the amount of time to each action is an invalu­able tool, allow­ing me to quickly glance at actions by time needed. I like to sort this way when I fin­ish a task and have only lim­ited time before a meet­ing / errand that needs to be done. View Bar / Focus­ing: There is a pair of glasses... Read More