Comments on: Screenshot of My OmniFocus Setup

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:30:23 +0000

Jimmy: The closest I’ve come is here: http://www.whatsbestnext.com/2010/08/getting-things-done-to-the-next-level/

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:43:35 +0000

Have you written more about your “planning system setup”, Matt?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:44:17 +0000

I am not fortunate enough to have a mac, so OF is out for me (I greenly envy my co-worker’s set-up from afar.) However, I have been using Thinkingrock, and that has done the trick. It is a decent GTD system for us Windows folks. Thanks Matt for your work on this stuff. Reading your posts and applying these things has made my workload and workflow so much better. I am a bit of a GTD evangelist now and have a friend hooked on it now too.

By: Matthew Johnson

Matthew Johnson — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:41:43 +0000

Looking forward to it. I had been brain dumping everything on paper, deciding what the next action/project is, and then create an entry in OF. I’ve since started using Ctrl Option Space and just bang, bang, bang, putting everything into the inbox and then going back and changing the vague nebulous stuff into concrete NA’s and projects. I love learning some developed OF Fu from others so I eagerly await the forthcoming posts.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:22:13 +0000

Also: I haven’t used Omnioutliner, but the way actions work in OmniFocus sounds very similar to what you describe. You can indent actions within actions by using cmd shft ].

I hope to get to the posts on how I have it set up soon (after I do my series on filing). I am tweaking OmniFocus in a way that uses it different from how it was intended to function in some ways, but I think that my approach with it is simpler.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:20:02 +0000

Matt: Yes, the individual checklists are “actions” in OmniFocus, and then the content of the checklist goes in the note field.

Since “actions” in OmniFocus have to go underneath a larger project heading, I use the OF “projects” here as topic groupings. This then groups the checklists by topic.

By: Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:21:41 +0000

I’ll look forward to your posts on Omnifocus. I installed it a couple of months ago and am still trying to wrap my brain around it. I know I could be doing more with it than I am but I’m not altogether sure of the best way to use it. Your posts on your planning system will be most helpful, particularly if you go into any detail on how you make use of Omnifocus features for planning.

By: Matthew Johnson

Matthew Johnson — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:28:58 +0000

Checklists, eh? Do you make the individual checklists an action (an Omnifocus action) with sub actions/checkboxes below each action? And if so, does that work the same way as Omni Outliner (Cmd, Shift, {)?

I really want to hear more about the way you have this set up.