I plan which tasks to do each morning anyway. Seems to work on any device - Mac, iPhone, iPad - if both iCal and OmniFocus are installed. You click on it in iCal and you get to the task in OmniFocus with all information contained in that entry (attachments, further links, etc.). Also, the dragged tasks automatically contain a link back to OmniFocus. And move them quickly between the already scheduled appointments. So, still no reason to enter any duration information in OmniFocus, but with iCal, you can simply use the mouse to drag the calendar entry according to how much time they take. Also, if the day really runs completely different than planned, I do not want to be reminded of each and every scheduled task I have missed.Īnd yeah, again, the duration information is not used, all tasks start out as 1 hour calendar entries. Planned tasks are important, but the alerts should not compete with scheduled appointments with actual people. I also have my default alarms (15 min prior) deactivated for this calendar (in iCal, right-click the calendar, then “Get Info” and check “ignore alerts”). You can use any calendar, but I have created a new calendar for it (“Tasks”, which I have deselected from the OmniFocus Forecast perspective, otherwise I’d have the same information twice). If not … well, then these appointments are irrelevant any way. If one fails (never happened), the other likely works. I love digital calendars, but I deeply distrust auto-synced solutions. They are (manual) copies and are handled by two different servers. BTW, the blue and orange calendars contain the same information. On the Mac, you can simply drag and drop OmniFocus tasks on the calendar: OmniFocus tasks (right) can be dragged and dropped into iCal (the Apple calendar app, left). Or rather, you can and might want to do it manually … and use these conscious decisions to plan the day.
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And it’s not really made for planning.īut there’s a - manual - workaround. Shame, because even a synced calendar with iCal - handled by OmniFocus and then subscribed to via iCal - might be really useful.
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Apparently, there was a way to sync OmniFocus with iCal in a prior version, but I haven’t found out how to do it. In short, OmniFocus gives you a Forecast view, but - and perhaps for good reason - does not try to compete with a calendar. You have to manually change a lot of information. It makes planing the day very cumbersome. You cannot drag and drop the tasks to change their order, given that you do not have a vertical timeline (as in iCal).Unless you do them in parallel, it would be easy to give an indicator of just how much time all (planned) tasks for the day would take. The “Estimated Duration” information is not used.However, while the tasks are shown by date and in the order of the time, and even interspersed with the iCal calendar entries, that’s about it. Very useful, and one of the main reasons for me to use the “ Due:” entry of tasks in OmniFocus. the ones that were due in the past but not done. In the Forecast tab, you can select a single day or deselect the chosen day to see all future tasks, incl. For example, which iCal calendars should be shown (Note: I refer to the Apple calendar as iCal here, even though it is - now - simply called “calendar” on macOS and iOS).
There is a Forecast tab, and you can set it up in the Perspectives menu (Perspectives > Show Perspectives > Forecast). Unfortunately, OmniFocus does not make this easy for you. I would carry over 5 to 10 tasks each day because I just did not manage to get them done - sometimes due to lack of time or simply due to a lack of energy.Īt at least the time problem is solvable. The usual problem - too many tasks for the day. However, while it is easy to have all the tasks available, I found it very difficult to realistically plan the tasks for the day. The syncing is fast and robust, and it’s got lots of useful features (talking about version 3.8 here). Yup, the disadvantage is its price, especially when taken together. It’s available on my MacBook, on my iPhone and on my iPad. I find OmniFocus extremely useful to keep track of my tasks. If this is the case, then creating the entries manually would be a better option. Might it be the case that dragging tasks to iCal causes them? Might be a fluke but it is very strange. Update: Strange, I’m having sync problems lately. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day.
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