How's Omnifocus2?

OMNIFOCUS2 is the Mac platform GTD application of the benchmarking, leading functions and services so that other similar applications are difficult to compare, however, it is because the software is too "strong", making it relatively difficult to get started, this article can contact specific examples, step-by-step description of the menu function and use.

The price is still expensive: 258RMB, at the same time also have the Pro version, plus 258RMB (where after February 1, 2013 through the App store directly to buy OmniFocus 1 of users, will be free to upgrade to OmniFocus 2 Pro qualification)

Review (Review) features

Originally is two columns, now is the three columns, so the review of the time in the various items in the jump more convenient, and the same time as unread Mail, no review of the project will have a small red dot on the right, easy to distinguish.

Week view is a very important part of GTD, but a lot of people will ignore it.

I can make a bold guess, if you have long felt that you are stuck in the "action" or "project" level, unable to balance the various roles, and can not do the annual plan, then almost sure that your weekly view is not in place.

Week view is let us rise the link of height, so how does Xiao Qiang do in Omnifocus2 in the week examines?

1, press cmd+1 into the collection basket, first empty it

2. Press Cmd+6 to enter review view

3, each of the project point to browse, and then ask yourself three questions:

What is the progress of the project? Ahead and behind schedule?

How will the project be advanced next week?

What are the principles and objectives of the project?

4, then different types of content in different ways of viewing, such as:

Action Checklist: Clear every action, set deadlines, flags, etc. on the basis of circumstances, and perform task decomposition as well as complex tasks

Knowledge Base: Browse the information and data collected last week

Annual plan: Browse through it, if you inspire any ideas immediately write down, and pay attention to the implementation of the annual plan, make corresponding adjustments

Future Checklist: Is there a chore to hatch?

Predictive (Forecast) functionality

This feature in the OmniFocus for the iphone has a long history, is a cockroach's favorite function Oh!

It's intuitive to see what's going on today, which is the combination of action lists and calendars.

Think about it, our usual things are just the two forms of it!

And how many things will be in the next few weeks.

There's also a handy little trick to quickly add things to finish today:

1, in the Forecast (Forecast) view Click to today, the right will list all the due date is today's transaction

2, directly by return to add entries, then automatically give "to finish Today" property

This technique is often used on iOS!

Quick Open function

Just see this function when the front of the light, and spotlight like Ox x? Full text Instant Search?

It turned out that while it was true that the search was instantaneous, it was limited to the search for "perspective", "folder", "Item" and "Context", crying!

Its shortcut key is Cmd+o, in fact, is to save a step:

For example: You have to go into the "call" situation, to bulk dispose of all the calls

In the previous way: Click on the "Context" menu--click the "call" scenario--Start calling

Now: No matter where you are in Omnifocus2, Cmd+o open quick open and type "call"--start calling directly

About defer until date

In Omnifocus1 you can give each action a "start" (start date), I guess a lot of people have not used this function:

by Omnifocus2, "Start date" becomes "deferred to" (deferred until), I guess a lot of people get dizzy.

Xiao Qiang uses his own understanding to explain briefly:

For example: Do you plan to start a contract at 13th this month, when the client suddenly asks for the offer and the boss needs to renegotiate (often encounters it?) and it is estimated that it will take three days to produce results.

At this time in the OMNIFOCUS2 how to operate it? is to "postpone to" (deferred until), change to number 16th, so in OmniFocus for this action will be different?

It's simple: it becomes unusable, it's visible in the prediction view, and if you choose available (avaliable) view, you won't see this action.

Do you remember? OmniFocus emphasizes focus! Not everyone is so focused on focus, so most people don't know or need it.

1, Focus: OmniFocus is called OmniFocus (Omni Group is the company, focus is focused), the feature is focused! For example, if you are dealing with the "Aluminum Entry Installation" project, you will not be able to see the contents of any other items, excluding all distractions focus on the current project , if this method works for you, then strongly recommend the closure of mail reminders, micro-letter reminders, QQ reminders, and so on, to ensure that you do things when the focus, if this method does not use you, then ... Never mind.

2, custom perspective: In the past when using OmniFocus 1 to customize some perspective, such as listing all of today's actions, and so on, belong to geek players want the function

3, AppleScript support: AppleScript is also the same, Xiao Qiang used less, nothing more than some automatic import export what.

Complete (completed) Pivot feature

"Completed" perspective of the original 1 generation seems to have, but the order is always uncomfortable, and then I use the custom perspective of the function to achieve

Omnifocus2 's completed perspective is sorted by completion time, which is great! can be seen visually:

"Done Today" (useful at the time of the Daily Review)

"Done yesterday."

"Completed last week."

"Completed last month", "nearly three months completed"

"Nearly six months to complete"

"Nearly a year to complete"

The only annoying thing is that there are too many things in the top "unfinished", and if I want to see what I've done today, it's going to take a long time to see.

Fortunately, you can click on the front triangle to let the "unfinished" search, and Omnifocus2 will remember this option, the next time you open the "completed" perspective, it will not be disturbed.