OmniFocus for Mac Essential Training

By: David Sparks

Duration: 1h 50m

Released: January 21, 2016

Description:

Learn how to supercharge productivity and master the intricacies of OmniFocus, the popular task manager for Mac OS X. Author David Sparks explores OmniFocus conventions and the app interface, and then dives into capturing tasks in a variety of ways, including writing tasks manually, using Mail Drop to import tasks, harnessing the OmniFocus Clip-o-Tron, and using keyboard shortcuts to speed up data entry.

The course then explains how to best process tasks: setting up projects, establishing contexts and repeating tasks, and using such important features as date deferral, flags, perspectives, and the Forecast view. The course wraps up with a look at acting on and reviewing tasks and projects.

Contents:

• Introduction
• 1. Overview of OmniFocus for Mac
• 2. Capturing Tasks
• 3. Processing Tasks
• 4. Perspectives and Forecast View 5
• . Acting On and Reviewing Tasks
• Conclusion

Author:

David Sparks speaks and writes about how to use technology to be more productive.

David is a past speaker at Macworld/iWorld and a regular faculty member for the American Bar Association's TECHSHOW. David also lectured at the National Judicial College. David has published numerous books on how to use technology including the MacSparky Field Guide series that includes books on managing email, going paperless, and making a winning presentation. David is also co-host of the popular Mac Power Users podcast. When not speaking and writing about technology, David is a business attorney in Orange County, California.