![]() Please note that space is limited to 100 participants. If you're already a member of Learn OmniFocus, visit the event page to learn more and to register. Family is very important to Joe and that’s where the bulk of his elusive free time is spent. He’s a fan of woodworking, anything Apple, coffee, and DIY projects around the house. He now works from home dreaming up and creating new technologies. He’s worked in soybean seed research and on data analysis and web application development in a corporate setting. Joe grew up on a farm in Missouri and has built his career around agriculture. Joe provides a summary of his new approach on his blog and will take us on a deep dive during the LIVE session, including his decision not to use tags, how he uses defer dates, and his strategies for developing habits. To accommodate changes in his life, Joe recently did a complete revamp of his OmniFocus Setup and Workflows, drawing some wisdom from Learn OmniFocus, Kourosh Dini, David Sparks, and others. Their Book List began with David Allen’s Getting Things Done and has since grown to over 75 titles. Every two weeks Joe and Mike share their impressions of a book, including how they’re applying the wisdom contained in its pages to their day-to-day life and work. It allows you to store, manage, and process your thoughts into actionable to-do items. Speaking of books, Joe co-hosts the popular Bookworm podcast with Mike Schmitz. OmniFocus app is incredibly flexible, and the controls are easy to learn. Another, called Read Book Tasks, creates actions in support of reading a book within a specific date range. He has written extensively about his OmniFocus workflows on his blog and has crafted some very helpful AppleScripts that are popular among OmniFocus users.įor example, Joe wrote an AppleScript called Update Reviews that changes weekly, monthly, and annual review dates to match the specified day of the week, month, and year. Joe has a long history with OmniFocus and was a guest on Learn OmniFocus back in 2015. After parcelling out dribs and drabs of our workflows all through the book, we conclude the main text with more comprehensive views of our systems, again in the hope that it may be of use to you as you build yours.Joe Buhlig (pronounced Byoolig ) is returning to Learn OmniFocus LIVE to take us on a tour of his current OmniFocus setup and workflows. It is our hope that some of this experience can assist you with the same. ![]() We’re just two normal, and quite different, people who get what we want done because we have built systems which support us. Not that we would ever claim to be the most proficient practitioners of productivity. We’ve both been using OmniFocus for many years and it has been our companion through many a stressful (and joyful!) situation. On the theme of expanding your horizons with the app, the following chapter, Final Horizons discusses topics around keeping your system healthy and introduces you to automating the system.įrequently throughout the book we, both Rose and Ryan, drop in with our personal interpretations of features, showing you how we use them or how we handle situations. Fittingly titled Advancing, this chapter notably covers custom perspectives, the most powerful feature of OmniFocus, available as part of the OmniFocus Pro package. This brings up one of our philosophies in writing this book, though: we want it to provide you all this information in a concentrated and easy to reference way.įrom this point we move into the more advanced plateaus of using OmniFocus. Thanh shows how each Apple devices has a different function within a workflow. ![]() There you’ll also be introduced to Building Blocks which are small tasks we set you which will help guide your thinking as you progress through the book and in creating your system.įollowing on from First Steps, the Fundamentals chapter lays out all the basic pieces of the app in both interface and concept – tags, projects, perspectives – in, if we dare say, almost too much detail. OmniFocus Series Part 08: Workflows and Devices. It begins with First Steps which introduces the very basics of OmniFocus using examples to help you understand the philosophies behind how the app works. To help you build this system, we’ve written this book. With this rich data, you can use OmniFocus to build highly curated lists of what needs your attention next, whether it’s something you want to get done or something you must get done. You’ll expand upon this to add ways to organise those things both structurally within projects and with categorisation using tags. The initial point of customising the app begins with simply putting in our own data, the things we need to get done. The point remains, though, that we all need to mould and shape OmniFocus into being the app we want and that makes sense to us. ![]() Enjoy 155 pages, over 40,000 words, of workflow building goodness!
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