

Instead, it’s more important to think of them as avenues that will provide ways to view your action lists. At first thought the idea of tags could seem overwhelming, but only if you think of them as you might in any other app, as categories. TagsĪnother way that OmniFocus 3 extends its power is by using tags. These recipes may require slight alterations to the laws of physics, but that’s another app. This will show only the actions from your Enriched Breads folder which are available (incomplete, not deferred or held back), quick to prepare (less than 30 minutes) and aren’t tagged with nuts or currants. Has an estimated duration less than: 30 minutes Is contained within project or folder: Enriched Breads

You can build this custom perspective: All of the following: Say you often want to make a quick loaf for friends (some of whom have nut allergies or despise currants) as you work your way through all the enriched bread recipes you could find. The power comes from boolean logic (AND, OR, NOT) rules. These rules are based on the same (and some new) criteria used in the old perspective builder. OmniFocus 3 takes the custom perspectives of the past and boosts them to new levels with rules. For this case, you can create a custom perspective. However sometimes you may find you want more clarity or you find yourself preparing the same views over and over. The in-built views, perspectives, of your actions provide simple ways to slice into your task lists to get your work done with what’s happening now. At the time of writing the macOS version is still in the proving drawer with a beta expected in summer 2018. This review is primarily about the general concepts behind OmniFocus 3, but later gets into specifics of OmniFocus 3.0 for iOS, released today (). Through a magic soup of metadata (status and times) and categorisation of tags, projects and actions (tasks), it is possible to build crystal clear viewports onto your tasks, tightly focused on only what’s relevant, hiding away fluff. What sets OmniFocus out as a great task manager is right there in its name: focus.
