
The centerpiece of GTD is still about defining and building a trusted system, however that works for you as an individual. That suggestion is only a small part of the entirety of habits that David Allen has compiled. Too often, I believe, the community seems to assume it is all about contexts. They are also fantastic, excellent, and at least pretty darn good.įinally, Getting Things Doneis still quite excellent and relevant.

Samples are available with a mailing list sign up. The course and book work for any tool, be that OmniFocus, pen and paper, everything in between, as well as the environments we build around ourselves.

Workflow Masteryapproaches productivity from the direction of theory, building an all encompassing view of what meaningful work is and how we can approach it. They are presented one at a time as simple exercises to be developed at your own pace. May I, also, direct you to my other wares? Being Productiveis a video course that provides 14 fundamental practices of productivity. I’m willing to bet that at least one of them will have solid videos about OmniFocus 3 out soon, if not already. David Sparks, Tim Stringer, Joe Buhlig, and others have created their own excellent works on OmniFocus. I’ll be posting from time to time, so check out the blog.Ĭheck out the resources page. But, as before, if you already own a previous edition, you’ll be eligible for a discount. If I had to guess, I’d say to look toward the end of 2018. Not only do I need to wait for the screenshots, but I want some time to adapt and understand any changes of workflows.
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I’m waiting until after the Mac OS X release of OmniFocus 3. I will say, I’m quite impressed with how the Omni Group has created an unfolding experience with the iOS version.

For all I know, I’ll make an even larger edition, and I’ll just have to eat my hat. Now, how well I’ll succeed at doing so, we’ll just see. As you want or need something, it becomes more visible. If possible, I would like to mimic the Omni Group’s “progressive disclosure”. But I had thought “the more, the better”. Unfortunately, I believe this falsely pushed the idea that they needed to be read! Silly, I know. The second edition had reached over 100,000 words and a thousand pages, albeit with many pictures. I’m hoping to streamline this next edition. And the more powerful our tools are, the more caution and experience they demand, and the more rewarding they can be when understood. As always, it’s not our tools it is how we use them that matters. Quite humanly, we return to our tools, seeking simplicity, seemingly from the same milieu which complicated our lives in the first place. Organizing to find success is no easy feat. The anxieties and worries we carry, the desire for the meaningful, all continue to both drive and thwart our definitions and pursuits of “success”. Meanwhile, our minds are still the minds that have developed through millennia of primitive culture. And in general, our tools are increasingly pervasive throughout our lives. The productivity world has changed tremendously since the first edition. I’m regularly visiting it, adding ideas, making updates, changes, and the like. Creating Flow with OmniFocus 3is in the works.
