41 thoughts on “Screencast 001: OmniFocus (part 1 of 3)”

1. Finis Price April 1, 2011 at 9:18 pm

   Great svreencast. I’ve been waiting to learn ho you use OmniFocus bc I haven’t been able to figure out a workflow for my own practice with it.
2. Robert April 2, 2011 at 10:12 am

   Thank you for this, David. Very informative.

   I’m looking forward to seeing the follow up screencasts.

   I appreciate you taking the time to put these together for us.

   Thank you.
3. mon10a April 2, 2011 at 1:50 pm

   Bravo, David

   You obviously put a tremendous amount of work into this screencast to fit so much info into 20 minutes. As far as I am concerned, this cast is worth listening to at least 2 or 3 times. Thanks.

   m
4. Teresa April 2, 2011 at 1:59 pm

   I’ve been using Omnifocus for a while and now. After watching this, I have a few changes I will be making in my (admittedly) elementary workflow.

   Thank you so much David! Great job. Looking forward to parts 2 and 3.
5. Cathie April 2, 2011 at 7:57 pm

   Great information and presentation.
6. Patrick April 2, 2011 at 8:50 pm

   Really enjoyed the screen cast. I also got a few new tips to use in my personal workflow. In the next episode, I am curious about how you organize your projects. I got a little too nest-happy when making my hierarchy, and it really bogged down the process of rapidly assigning them.

   Also curious if you’ve ever tried to sync Omnifocus with Smartsheet. If I can get across that last mile, I will be completely in sync with the rest of my company.

   Thanks for the great screencast.
7. John H. Armwood April 2, 2011 at 11:17 pm

   I have been eagerly awaiting these screencasts ,especially since your wonderful book “Mac At Work” inspired me to take a second look at Omnifocus. It is such a wonderful program. I enjoyed this first screencast and eagerly await the second installment. Keep up your work. You are greatly appreciated.
8. ryan April 3, 2011 at 12:00 am

   Thanks for the screencast! You solved the issue I was having with the clipper shortcut keys.

   Looking forward to “processing”.
9. Jason R April 3, 2011 at 12:32 am

   This was mentioned on the video
   OmniFocus, GTD and You: Implementing the Getting Things Done® Methodology with OmniFocus
10. Jason R April 3, 2011 at 12:32 am

    http://www.omnigroup.com/ftp/pub/software/macosx/Extras/OmniFocus/GTDandOmniFocus.pdf
11. Mike April 3, 2011 at 2:29 am

    So excited to watch this! Great addition to your expanding omnifocus presentations. Keep up the amazing work!
12. Chris Vander Wilt April 3, 2011 at 4:05 am

    Fantastic David, thank you for a great screencast – this is a great companion to, Creating Flow With OmniFocus – By Kourosh Dini. You brought out in 20min a certain techniques for capture that I didn’t even, in 550 odd pages of his book. Way to go!

    Thanks Again
    cV
13. Johnny April 3, 2011 at 3:51 pm

    Great screen cast very informative,

    Minor point for the next ones could you just slow down a little bit when your showing menus and such, you rushed through parts of it at a 100 miles an hour it was very hard to keep up.
14. Mark April 3, 2011 at 4:37 pm

    David,

    Thanks for the great screencast! I’m looking forward to improving my OF capture. Well done!
15. Josh Walsh April 3, 2011 at 5:16 pm

    This was great, I’ve been an OmniFocus power user for years, but have never seen the Instapaper shortcut before. Awesome.
16. Bill Hanna April 3, 2011 at 9:03 pm

    David,

    Fantastic job !!!!!

    Instapaper shortcut amazing !!!!!!

    Any idea on the why clippings are such a problem? I looked at the OmniGroup website and it looks like I will need to contact the Ninja’s. My shortcut is assigned with no conflicts and both quick entry or inbox just gives me a beep and nothing

    Thanks again, you and Katie are fantastic !!!!!!

    Bill
17. Kourosh April 4, 2011 at 12:20 pm

    Very comprehensive discussion about getting information into OmniFocus. I really like the comments about integrating tools of dictation.

    Nicely produced, too!

    - Kourosh
18. Victor Medina April 4, 2011 at 3:56 pm

    David,

    Like everyone said: Tremendous Screencast. Clear, concise and helpful.

    One question – do you ever use audio recordings (quick snippets where you use the audio as the thing you put in the inbox) in your workflow? A slight variation of your recommendation to use Dragon, which I do, but I was wondering if you attach an audio file ever or have you heard of a workflow that includes this? (My thought, from the iPhone specifically, is to capture tasks as I’m driving, but without looking down to tap, copy, insert, etc.).

    Keep up the good work!

    Victor
19. Dayna April 5, 2011 at 12:17 pm

    Thank you, David & OmniFocus! I bought OF after listening to MPU podcast last year but still haven’t been successful at using OF properly. I’ve been desperate for some screen-casts from you. Hooray!
20. Rod Webb April 5, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    I get a lot of help from your podcasts and screencasts. I know what it takes to do such work well, so I appreciate the thought and effort you put into both the content and production.
21. Eric Durbrow April 6, 2011 at 1:19 am

    Well done. Two slight criticisms: The Mailplaine part seemed to come out of no where and requires a bit more explanation. Second, I am still not convinced that Instatpaper is simply a tool to encourage procrastination. But I really appreciate this “advanced” tutorial. Thanks!
22. Michael Anderson April 6, 2011 at 8:25 am

    Thanks for the screencast David. It inspired me to go back and listen to the task Manager Smackdown MPU episode, plus watch Don’s basic screencasts on OmniFocus. I downloaded the iPhone app and the Mac app and spent the weekend immersed in learning OmniFocus.

    At the end of all that, I downloaded Things and am much happier.

    I think Katie nailed it in the MPU show – OmniFocus expects you to conform to its way of working, Things is much more flexible. I found myself spending so long adding contexts and projects and tags to tasks in OmniFocus that the whole thing ended up a complicated and confusing mess.

    Things is much more flexible around existing workflows. The only advantage of OF is its syncing but hopefully Things will eventually get sorted later this year.

    So Cultured Code have you to thank for creating another Things customer.
23. John H. Armwood April 6, 2011 at 6:21 pm

    Instapaper is a wonderful tool to save articles for later perusal. If you subscribe to RSS feed as I do (134) is is a useful sorter. You can save articles there from your iPhone or iPod touch and read them on your computer, iPad or even Kindle.
24. Colin Horner April 7, 2011 at 2:51 am

    Hi David many thanks for a great screencast. I look forward to the follow up screencasts
    Colin
25. Martin April 7, 2011 at 3:31 pm

    Very nice screen cast! Looking forward to additional parts of the series from David.

    Hopefully screen casts become more common here @ MPU
26. Mauricio Orozco April 7, 2011 at 3:45 pm

    Great screencast, thanks for the extensive information on capturing.
    I’ve looked at a few other screencasts and blogs trying to find examples of creating the elusive “today” perspective. If you could talk a little bit about how we can do our daily Omnifocus processing in the morning and then just have the Today perspective on our phones for example to do the work that would be great.

    Cheers,

    Mauricio
27. Tim Lahey April 7, 2011 at 8:35 pm

    Rather than hiding OmniFocus, another option would be to put it in a different Space. That’s what I do with Things.
28. Jon April 18, 2011 at 11:01 pm

    Did the second screencast get delayed? I recall an announcement about it being posted this past weekend…

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31. tim brennan September 7, 2011 at 5:29 pm

    How does Omnifocus compare to Wunderlist?
32. Craig Curry October 8, 2011 at 11:18 am

    Thanks for the great screencast. I’ve been using OmniFocus for several months but had never gotten around to figuring out the tie-ins with Mail. I look forward to implementing these techniques.
33. JS Link October 24, 2011 at 1:48 pm

    Hi David, does the javascript link for the IPad also work on the Mac?
34. Thank you! October 25, 2011 at 7:18 am

    Dave, thanks for the excellent screen cast. Got me started w/ omnifocus, and am now reading Dini’s book.
35. Lawrence February 28, 2012 at 5:17 pm

    Thanks Dave for some really great Ninja tricks!

    Ive taken all of them on board!
36. Lisa March 7, 2012 at 1:34 pm

    Thanks for the screencast. I am new to Omniforce. I only have it on ipad right now. I can see the benefits of also getting it for my laptop as well after watching your video.

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38. Kimberly April 4, 2012 at 8:44 am

    Fantastic screencast. Just got started with OmniFocus and this is extremely helpful.
39. Doug August 21, 2012 at 6:49 pm

    Thank you for the series of OmniFocus screencast. I am really “powering up” with better implementation of OmniFocus. Thank you for sharing your experience and wisdom.
40. Bernard Gryspeert February 4, 2013 at 6:55 am

    I just downloaded a trial version of Omnifocus. I am interested in the integration capabilities with Omniplan: tasks assigned to me from within Omniplan should become bi-directionally available in Omnifocus. Is this already possible, are there any plans to do this?

    Bernard
41. OmarKN March 27, 2013 at 4:32 pm

    @Bernard G.

    Yes this is also something I’d like to know, one-direction is enough for me.

    > I am interested in the integration capabilities with Omniplan: tasks assigned to me from within Omniplan should become bi-directionally available in Omnifocus.

    with best regards,
    Omar K N
    (Stockholm, Sweden)

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