When it comes to managing projects in OmniFocus on iOS, it’s about optimizing your workflow so you can access what you need in the least amount of time.
Reordering Projects for faster access to common projects when adding a task You can easily re-order your list, though. In my testing, I can only get items to appear if they are not below any non-starred items.
Then hit Edit and star any perspective to add it to the app’s home screen. To get started, tap on Perspectives at the bottom of the OmniFocus for iPhone’s home screen. It’s really easy to pin one of these perspectives for easy access. On the iPhone version of OmniFocus, I have a “Due” perspective that shows my Due items in a list ordered by date. Adding Perspectives to the iPhone Home screen If the iOS Mail app supported iOS 8 extensions, this wouldn’t be as crucial, but nevertheless, I’ve used it over 500 times since it launched. I recommend saving this address to your address book. To access your unique Mail Drop address, log in to the Omni Sync Server and click Create Address.
Send tasks from a Windows PC to your OmniFocus inbox. for instance, any tweets that you “star” could be sent to your OmniFocus inbox as links you want to follow up on. Use IFTTT to automatically send items to your inbox from other cloud services. The subject of the email is the task’s title, and the contents of the email will be the task’s note. Letting someone assign tasks to you - simply give them your Mail Drop address and anything they email to it will show up in your OmniFocus inbox. What else could you use the Mail Drop feature for? When I opened OmniFocus, all of those items were in my inbox ready to be processed. As work emails came in that needed follow up, I simply forwarded them to my special OmniFocus email address. I used this quite a bit while I was traveling on vacation recently. It allows you to send emails into your OmniFocus inbox from any email client. The OmniFocus Mail Drop feature launched back in late 2013.
Several of us here at The Sweet Setup have been using Omnifocus for the past 4-5 years, so we’ve seen it come a long way since then.īelow you’ll find a few tips and resources to help you get the most out of the app. We picked OmniFocus as our favorite GTD app earlier this week, and we wanted to share some our favorite and most-used tips on this powerful suite of apps.