2016
Lynda
David Sparks
1:52
English
Master the intricacies of OmniFocus on iPhone or iPad to supercharge your productivity. You'll explore the popular iOS task manager's organizational conventions and the best ways to navigate the interface. You'll also dive into capturing tasks in a variety of ways, including writing tasks from scratch, speaking to Siri, using OmniFocus extensions, and utilizing Mail Drop to speed up task entry.
The course then explains how to best process tasks: setting up projects, establishing contexts and repeating tasks, and using such important features as date deferral, flags, the check circle, perspectives, and the Forecast view. Finally, you'll learn how to efficiently review tasks and projects and how to manage OmniFocus tasks on an Apple Watch.
Introduction
Welcome
What you should know before watching this course
Using the challenges
1. Overview of OmniFocus for iOS
Buying and installing OmniFocus for iOS
Understanding the OmniFocus workflow
Understanding the OmniFocus iOS interface
Setting up Omni Sync
2. Capturing Tasks
Developing a system to capture tasks with OmniFocus
Capturing tasks on the iPhone and iPad
Using OmniFocus's iOS extensions
Capturing tasks with Siri
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
Setting up 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 the OmniFocus check circle
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 tasks
Using notifications
The Today view extension
Using locations with tasks
Reviewing other application settings
6. Apple Watch and OmniFocus
Manging tasks with OmniFocus for Apple Watch
Conclusion
Next steps
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