GTD - How to Make a Do Today List in OmniFocus (Part 2)

Using flags perspectives and sorting to create a do today list in omnifocus. This helps you stay on top of things, and break your context list down into a more approachable list.

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Education

Tags:

• GTD
• Omni
• focus
• omnigroup
• Omnifocus
• Getting
• Things
• Done
• Scott
• Stamile
• sweet
• manage
• to
• do
• list
• system
• Today

[lookielooatyou2]

Great job on the video. It's really helpful to incorporate some sort of basic prioritization of the available tasks and then automate a view to show only them. Question: In the flagged perspective, why don't al the actions appear flagged? Second, what is the gimmick for the panning window? Thanks!

[s8m2s]

Thanks a lot :) Not sure exactly what you mean by not all actions showing there flags. If you make a flagged only perspective, it should only show actions that have flags. If the flag is grayed out, it means you have flagged the whole project, so the action inherits the projects flag, but is not individually editable. Hope that makes sense.

[s8m2s]

AHhhh the panning window. Horrible isn't it. I'm using a capture app called ishowu. It has the option to follow the mouse and use a smaller capture aria. If i captured the full screen, i would have to scale down the vid and you wouldn't be able to see on youtube.

[amiamiam]

Really helpful! Making a good to-do list was really holding back my love of Omnifocus - game back on!

[neoveexan]

Found this very helpful. Thanks!

[dierotenpunkte]

Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video. You are super and great!

[kbs1138]

Awesome! Very useful, thanks.

[oneworld9]

actually you can use Apple + K as a keyboard shortcut to execute "clean up". probably the easiest way to refresh without open/closing.

[bareto]

Very useful, thank you!

[brainformuscle]

Good Vid. Keep it up.

[jasonkadams]

Really appreciate this series, will look forward to any new videos you put out!

[kalesb]

... to the toolbar. I use this to quickly switch between my custom perspectives.

3. OmniFocus has a toolbar button named "Clean Up." This might save you from having to close/reopen a perspective to get a checked item to disappear. The keyboard shortcut is CMD-K.