![]() ![]() Do you ever think we will ever get a “Do” date and time. My taxes are due April 15 but I want to schedule time from 10 to 12 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday to work on them. I really believe that if you had the option to really schedule when you wanted to do a task that it would make quite a difference on the current impression. I have watched several YouTube videos reviewing version 4 of OmniFocus and unfortunately the reception has been quite lukewarm. 3 Consider OmniFocus, if it has features lacking in Reminders. 2 Try Reminders (check MacMost for a recent tutorial). So my advice would be: 1 think clearly about what you want to use any todo app for & avoid overloading it. So now I use OmniFocus more selectively and calendar-block my main work stuff (which links to a Bear note with check-lists and notes). ![]() It’s long-term projects that don’t really have the structure & hard deadlines that OmniFocus excels at. It was unusable and terrifying! I realised when setting OmniFocus back up, that almost all of my work doesn’t suit OmniFocus, or any other todo app. I also realised that I’d listened too literally to OmniFocus advocates, David Sparks, et al., and had EVERYTHING in it. I got cheesed off with OmniFocus and used Reminders for a few months, which has a lot more OmniFocus-like functions than it used to.Įventually I realised that I really was missing some OmniFocus functions and went back. Why don’t I just buy another task manager? Because I’ve already paid for something that is supposed to be one of the best task managers in the App Store. But in this case “powerful” seems to mean confusing, neglecting ease of use for the user and limited in basic functionality. If this app wasn’t a premium price or always placed on a pedestal of how “powerful” it is then I probably would accept limitations. I have spent more time emailing Omni support, scouring Reddit, watching YouTube videos to find how to do basic task/project management than being productive. But it seems like the common thinking is that “OmniFocus is SO powerful that you can’t duplicate projects.” Combine this with a confusing Perspective setup process. Long press (or right click) on a project, select Duplicate from the drop down, an identical project is created, rename the project and move it to the folder you want. In my internet searches I haven’t found a straightforward way of doing this. I have similar projects with the same tasks due. I have spent the last 2 hours scouring the internet for a way to simply duplicate a project. (Create a Shortcut where you have to format everything, use TaskPaper that creates a project? Seriously?) Or try to duplicate a project on the iPad. Seems like this would be a straightforward way to repeat a project. ![]() Create a project, tap repeat, tap yearly, tap the month and day you want it to repeat. It has a repeat function, but instead of just choosing what day of the specific month each year you would like this project repeat you have to utilize a clumsy repeat interface that doesn’t seem to give you control on when and how it repeats. It seems they would want to create a project, get it set up nice and neat, and then just make a template out of it. It doesn’t seem unreasonable that a user would have a project that comes up every year with identical tasks. But does it really justify it’s price? Try to do something such as create a project template. ![]() Is that the case? It is a premium price on the App Store. When doing research for the best task manager, I kept coming across blog posts, podcasts and various outlets that touted how OmniFocus on the iPad Pro is so “powerful”. ![]()
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