OmniFocus for Mac Essential Training

Learn how to get the most from the popular task manager for Mac OS X, OmniFocus.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the challenges

1. Overview of OmniFocus for Mac

• Buying and installing OmniFocus
• Understanding the OmniFocus workflow
• Exploring the toolbar and sidebar
• Exploring the OmniFocus interface
• Setting up Omni Sync on the Mac

2. Capturing Tasks

• Developing a system to capture tasks with OmniFocus
• Capturing tasks on the Mac
• Using the OmniFocus clipping shortcut
• Capturing email with the Clip-o-Tron
• Using Mail Drop to capture tasks
• Challenge: Populate OmniFocus using different capture techniques
• Solution: Populate OmniFocus using different capture techniques

3. Processing Tasks

• Understanding process in OmniFocus
• Organizing your tasks using Projects
• Using sequential and parallel projects to avoid task overload
• Setting up Contexts
• Using deferred dates to manage tasks
• Setting up and using due dates
• Flagging tasks
• Understanding OmniFocus check circles
• Repeating tasks
• Processing your inbox
• Challenge: Process your inbox
• Solution: Process your inbox

4. Perspectives and Forecast View

• Using built-in perspectives
• Creating custom perspectives
• Challenge: Build a custom perspective
• Solution: Build a custom perspective
• Using the Forecast view

5. Acting On and Reviewing Tasks

• Acting on tasks
• Reviewing projects and tasks
• Using notifications
• The Today view extension

Conclusion

• Next steps