![]() So how do these three systems work, and how do they stack up? Background and Requirements for my GTD Trusted System To my surprise, I actually found it even more useful than I was expecting, and decided to do a head-to-head against OmniFocus, my current GTD weapon of choice. Recently, I’ve been experimenting with Todoist as an alternative to Outlook as a task management system. Var action = new PlugIn.Like all entries on this blog, it will come as no surprise to my readers (who, according to wordpress analytics, virtually all know me) to hear that I have a fond curiosity for dabbling and experimenting with task management tools. “description”: “Focus on home-related folders only.”, I’ve found a script by Ian Young somewhere online which does the trick. Next up in this series: switching contexts in OmniFocus. This would usually be used to add a new task, but I don’t tend to use it that way and so I instead use it to create a new OmniFocus window and run the ‘Maximise OmniFocus’ macro from above.Ĭonsider this your regular reminder that small quality-of-life automations are sometimes the best automations! I also have a Keyboard Maestro macro that intercepts the ⌘ + N keyboard shortcut while OmniFocus is open. To get around this, I have a custom ‘Maximise’ macro set up in Keyboard Maestro that simply resizes the window to take up the full screen and shows each of these items.īelow you can see these ‘Show in Project’ and ‘Maximise Window’ automations in action: Open New OmniFocus Window In addition, it doesn’t have a toolbar, inspector, or sidebar, which for planning and tweaking is not optimal! When I do open a new window using the above action, Quick Open, or some other way, it is usually the same size as the window that created it: if I’m opening it from a custom perspective, it’s about a sixth of the screen. (I have it set to open in a new window, but that is optional.) Maximise Window This opens the selected task in the Projects view and focuses on that project. To help with this I’ve created a simple ‘Show In Project’ Plug-In and assigned this to a keyboard shortcut. The second action is an AppleScript, which runs the Keyboard Maestro macro with the given trigger value: Show In Projectįrom my dashboard view, I will sometimes see a task and want to view or edit its project. The first action is a list filter (shown below), which allows me to select either ‘Personal’ or ‘B&C’ to use as the trigger value for the Keyboard Maestro macro. I’ve set up a custom workflow with two steps: (Note that I have two slightly different versions of my dashboard (personal and work) and so, by using the %TriggerValue% variable in a couple of places, I get a little extra flexibility without having to create two separate macros.)Īlfred is my app launcher of choice and I’ve recently acquired the PowerPack. The actions for the last step look something like the below.
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