How to use Omnifocus and Evernote Together. Evernote is our favorite program for journaling and storing notes while Omnifocus is our favorite task manager. Individually they are arguably the best at what they do but if you combine them together it’s even better. If you are someone who needs to reference a lot of notes within Omnifocus and you want to use Evernote in conjunction – read on! If you are looking for a shortcut to use OmniFocus the right and effective way, check out OmniFocus Premium Posts. It’s our guide that is simple, practical and it has a lot of field-tested workflows and solutions to help you use OmniFocus the right way. Reference Materials with Evernote For a lot of tasks you need to have reference materials in order to complete them. NOTE: The fastest way to learn Evernote is by checking Evernote Essentials. It is available on all major platforms, it syncs via the cloud and it is free.
Going Paperless If you have a lot of paper based reference materials, we highly suggest to go digital. Omnifocus and Evernote. Asian Efficiency – Time Management and Productivity. OmniFocus Series Part 1: How to Use and Get Started with Omnifocus. Welcome to Asian Efficient OmniFocus Welcome to the first article in our ten-part series on OmniFocus. For those of you who don’t know, OmniFocus is the most kick-ass task management system ever created.
It’s everything you could ever want in a task manager – and more. For this reason, it’s the task manager of choice here at Asian Efficiency, and we’ve spent a lot of time experimenting with how to use it at its best. EDIT: Here is part 2 of getting started with Omnifocus and here is our full list of articles on using Omnifocus. If you are looking for a shortcut to use OmniFocus the right and effective way, check out OmniFocus Premium Posts. Because you all asked for it, we’re putting together this ten-part series to show you how we use OmniFocus from start-to-finish. This is what we’ll be covering over the next ten weeks: Meet Tom Tom Jenkins is good-looking bloke in his late 20s, living in Los Angeles. Meet Tom. Tom, is of course, an entirely fictional character (sorry ladies). Preferences. Techie Scheky. The Techie Scheky series offers tips and tactics for being more productive and creative through technology (especially with a Mac).
Note: This post may seem familiar to those who have been reading the site for a while. I decided to update a previous post for two reasons: 1) Because some of the tools I’m using have changed or have been update and 2) Because I’ve changed a bit of my thinking. Yesterday I shared the four types of to-dos. Today I want to follow up by sharing the tools I use to accomplish them. I’m going to start by letting you know my priority for each, my app of choice and the best possible alternatives. The Reminder I’ve tried a variety of solutions, from post-it notes to iPhone alarms and nothing worked until I was recently turned on to Due.
Due The Pros: Super fast to set up, easy to use, simple to share and almost impossible to ignore. The Cons: Lacks the location features of Apple’s own Reminders app. The Appointment Fantastical The Task OmniFocus The List Listary. THE PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE MANIFESTO. Lately there seems to be quite a few inspirational typographical posters making the rounds. Not one to ignore a trend, I decided to put my own, fairly cranky perspective on what is quickly becoming a well worn genre. Unlike some other examples, this one probably won’t make you feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside and that’s ok. It’s not meant to. It’s meant to make you think, even if it’s just for a second. So do me a favor, give this a read (and feel free to share it), but don’t print it, don’t try to find it as a poster or a coffee mug. (Hat tip to Patrick Rhone for sharing this and sending me off on this tangent.) The Passive Aggressive Manifesto by Michael Schechter, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
How to get all of your crap into OmniFocus. The Techie Scheky series offers tips and tactics for being more productive and creative through technology (especially with a Mac). After talking about how I take all of the varying types of tasks in my life, I thought I’d run through the various ways that you can create tasks in OmniFocus using their Quick Entry or Quick Clipper. This post looks to show you how to create one or multiple tasks using Quick Entry, how to create a variety of tasks using the Quick Clipper and how to make Quick Entry in OmniFocus work with Evernote. Too lazy to read? I’ve got you covered! Click here if you can’t see the video. Quickly Creating Tasks in OmniFocus Single Tasks When setting up OmniFocus, go to preferences, select the General tab and set the Quick Entry shortcut. Multiple Tasks I also find that Quick Entry serves as a great place to do a brain dump.
Using The OmniFocus Quick Clipper Oftentimes, you are going to want to add text from a website or a specific file to your task. Text Website File Email. Text Expander and OmniFocus. My Perfect Computer. The Techie Scheky series offers tips and tactics for being more productive and creative through technology (especially with a Mac). Note: Each link will take you to a more detailed post on how I use each application. You can find direct links to the apps in those posts. After last’s weeks post on building the perfect computer, it seemed appropriate to share my current setup. It’s also an ideal way to offer an overview of I’ve been (and will be) sharing in the Techie Scheky series. While I’ve talked about my undying love for my MacBook Air, I’m actually referring more to way I setup the machine and the apps I use to accomplish my work. The Foundation So much of a great system depends on a great foundation.
Here is my current list of secret weapons: Task Management I go out of my way to keep appointments and tasks separate. Appointments: If something has a specific time tied to it, I use Fantastical (greatest quick calendar entry application EVER!) Writing Reference Materials Web Browsing Email. OmniFocus Contexts, Folders, Perspectives, and Tasks in Launch Center Pro – Hack / Make. Tight integration between OmniFocus and Launch Center Pro is continuing to unfold.
Michael Schechter posted about some really fast ways to capture tasks using using the [prompt], [clipboard], and canned text in the action URL. Genius. I rushed to set this up and am really loving it. But it gets better. I saw Justin Lancy link to this series of tweets from Ken Case, CEO of Omni Group, talking about URLs for contexts, folders, perspectives, and tasks to deep link into the app. If you’ve played around with Launch Center at all, you’ll recognize which allows you to add a new task. Here’s the man himself explaining how to get these URLs: Context, folder, and task URLs can be generated from the Mac client by selecting something and using Edit->Copy As Link. When you copy the link from OmniFocus on your Mac, you’ll end up with a URL that looks something like this for a context: And this for a single-action list: App Cubby • Hand Crafted iPhone Apps - Launch Center. It’s like speed dial for everyday tasks.
Launch Center Pro saves you time by launching complex actions in a single tap. Message a loved one, search Yelp for the nearest coffee shop, jump straight to the camera in Instagram, control your Nest Thermostat via IFTTT, all with just a flick of your thumb. Create shortcuts for email, Safari, Twitter, Facebook, phone or FaceTime calls, Google searches, and more. If you do it on your iPhone constantly, Launch Center Pro will make it easier and faster. Sample shortcuts: Call a loved one Message a GIF to a friend Take a photo and message it to a group Email your boss a report from Dropbox Control your Nest Thermostat via IFTTT Quickly search Wikipedia Scan a barcode and search on Amazon Jump right to your favorite website Create a new item in OmniFocus Search Twitter using Tweetbot And so much more...
New apps and actions are added regularly! “Launch Center Pro is an app of verbs. Press Kit. OmniFocus Screencasts.