I have two phone calls to make, one to book in a budget meeting (area of focus = budget) and one to talk to a project manager about resourcing (area of focus = project). That means, all things being equal, tasks for projects in my Management folder will appear higher up the next action list than tasks for projects in my Monitoring and reporting folder.įor example. That order is the order they appear in the projects list. Unless you have put a due date on a project or action, the context view will list tasks in a set order. The second reason is a bit more subtle but, in my opinion, more powerful. I did my review and noticed that I didn’t have any projects in my budget folder - yet we’re fast approaching budget season. ![]() This happened to me in the last few days. Because all of the projects would appear under the relevant area of focus, I can tell at a glance if there is an area that I’m not focusing on enough. Firstly, I could use the structure as part of my weekly review. I found that if I laid out my folder structure in OmniFocus in the same way, I could accomplish two things. You might want to think about these are the different hats we wear in different parts of our lives. ![]() These are the key areas of your life that will be the focus of your projects and next actions. It was about 12 months ago that I hit on my current layout that works really well for me.īeing an avid GTDer I have a mindmap which lists my areas of focus. Over the years, I’ve played around with many different ways of laying things out. OmniFocus gives you a lot of flexibility in how you arrange your projects, giving you folders and nesting as ways of customising things. One of the common questions is around how to lay out the projects view. ![]() We’ve been having a lot of discussions about Omnifocus at the Sydney GTD Meet-Up over the last few weeks.
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