OmniFocus 2 review: Stay on top of your task list with this top task manager<article>
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Rare and revered is the person who can mentally track everything that must be accomplished. Everybody else needs tools and techniques for staying atop our tasks. In crowded and diverse field of possibilities, <strong>
OmniFocus</strong> (
Mac App Store link) is an appealing option if you’re willing to invest some time learning how it works.</p><p>
Ease of entry is crucial to any task manager—one simply can’t track tasks that aren’t in the system. OmniFocus offers up a standard array of options for feeding the beast. You can, of course, create new actions from within the application itself. A customizable system-wide keyboard shortcut will invoke a quick entry window for entering as many actions as you wish. The window persists until you save or cancel your entries—a welcome touch when copying/pasting multiple items. OmniFocus installs an OS X Service that can send the selected text and images from just about any application to the OmniFocus inbox as a new action. It’s great when it works, but through no fault of the Omni Group, Services are not consistently supported among all applications. Finally, users of the free
Omni Sync service can add items to their OmniFocus inbox via email. Upon request, an email address is generated for you and all messages sent there become actions in your OmniFocus inbox. The email subject line becomes the action’s title and email body becomes the action’s notes. It’s a bit disappointing that there’s no way to embed things like due dates and project names in the emails; metadata like these must be set manually after the action shows up in OmniFocus.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2466560/omnifocus-2-review-stay-on-top-of-your-task-list-with-this-top-task-manager.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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OmniFocus 2 review: Stay on top of your task list with this top task manager
