The following may be more esoteric than useful for most, but that won’t stop me from making a screencast. It features a use of the program that may be only something I’d use myself, but is hard for me to tell, so feel free to let me know your thoughts in the comments.
In some ways, I wanted to see how well I could create a screencast and so here it is. It is also a response to those made by Sven Fechner, David Sparks, and Michael Shecther.
I visit the Communications perspective twice daily. It contains contexts of Calls, Emails, Texts, and Waiting for. Once I’m through with the perspective, I avoid communications unless necessary. Altogether, it is a process of:
- checking inboxes,
- answering whatever can be answered in 2 minutes or less,
- deleting whatever needs deleting,
- filing as reference, and
- assigning the rest as tasks Omnifocus.
Thanks Kourosh, good simple ideas there. I’m going to give it a try in my workflow.
That’s brilliant! Thanks.
Kourosh…
Thanks so much for this one. I had seen the screencasts done by Sven, David, and Michael. I feel that going to the trouble of putting up these screencasts make them so much more helpful to folks like myself.
Keyboard Maestro macros also enhance OmniFocus in ways that aren’t possible via snippets. I think Michael’s recent Keyboard Maestro macro that pops a piece of selected text inside Evernote is quite elegant. Especially because getting things out of Evernote and into OmniFocus is not as straightforward as say popping things in from email, safari, and finder.
Any shares of Keyboard Maestro macros that enhance OmniFocus would be greatly appreciated by me and, I suspect, many others.
Hi Mike,
I did one post on Keyboard Maestro a little while back though I didn’t include snippets because they would not apply directly to another’s use. Instead, it’s more of a tutorial in setting it up.
https://www.beingproductive.org/omnifocus-perspectives-keyboard-maestro/
Loved your book. This is awesome. Good to see your still innovating. Hoping for a sequel. .
Where can I find out more about what you mean when you say this is set as a link to your “core perspective?” I’m probably missing something simple here.
I purchased your book in audio format recently and it has become my OmniFocus guru. Thanks so much for writing this.
Hi Dan,
The concept of the core is in the book. It is essentially a task list for the day that incorporates many spokes to it as a central hub.
In the screencast I accidentally say “to” instead of “from” in reference to linking.
– Kourosh
Thanks for the reply. I get it now. I hadn’t set up the Core perspective you describe in audio file 170. The screen shots, by the way, are extremely helpful. Thanks for doing such a thorough job on the audio version of this book, and for following up here on your site.
Great tutorial. Please keep these coming.
I recently bought your e-book and am loving it. Now woudln’t it be nice if you produced a video tutorial version 🙂
Hi Keith,
It’s a possibility 🙂
– Kourosh
Hi Kourosh,
I really loved your screencast. What a truly great idea you present! Thanks…
Terrific ideas in this screencast, Kourosh.Thanks for making it!
Thanks Kourosh! I got several ideas from this well done screencast.
These are great. Any chance you could share a copy of a TextExpander snippet group with the Omnifocus-related snippets you share in this screencast? That would be terrific.
Hi Mike,
Absolutely – a download link is just below the embedded screencast.
– Kourosh
Whoops! Now I see it. Thank you.
Thanks for the useful tips. I had always been frustrated by how OF handles following-up with delegated tasks. Your 3-step solution is fine. I had never used “Copy As Link” before and noticed that you can save the link as a snippet that can be pasted in the notes field of the associated action.
For example, if I want to call John about the new project, I could follow your procedure and create an action Discuss New Project > Agendas John and create a second actions Call John > Calls and then type xjo (the snippet abbreviation I created to link this action to John’s agenda list) in the notes field.
Use of Text Expander in this way saves the steps of having to go to the context view and clicking on the drop down menu, clicking on the Agenda’s context and choosing “Copy As Link” in the drop-down menu, every time you want to link an action to an agenda.
Just “remember” it in Text Expander.
Thanks for the Screencast! Would it be possible to share your textexpander snippets that you use in the video in either a .snippets file for download or just show the as text here?
Hi Alec,
Sure thing – a link is just below the embedded screencast.
– Kourosh
Kourosh
Thank you so much for this great tip. Wanted to let you know that it also works in Daylite (which I used for my work).
Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the screencast and the TexExpander Snippets… Excellent job.
Hi.
Loved the screencast and tried to download the snippets, but I was taken to a page that said “Page Cannot Be Found.”
I’d love to get your snippets to implement your system.
Hi Alan,
Thanks for the letting me know about the broken link. I just updated it.
– Kourosh
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