[tlester]

Hi all -

This may be a context flow or may be a perspective, but here's my scenario. I'm in a staff meeting. In that staff meeting I get an action item or items. I do a quick entry of that item. When I process my inbox, the action item may become a project with multiple actions. Next week, we have another staff meeting. By that time, my action items (action/projects) may be not started, partially completed, waiting on someone, or completed. It comes around to status giving time on the agenda and my boss says, "Tom, can you report on your action items?"

What's the best way for me to manage my actions in Omnifocus so that when I'm asked for my status I can look at Omnifocus and do a quick run down of everything relevant and where they are on their way to completion?

Here's a scenario. In the staff meeting. My boss gives me the action item, "Update the team wiki with the release management documentation that Bob wrote". I do a quick entry of that AI. I later process that into a simple project.

-- Email Bob to get Release Management Document (@Email)
-- Add Release Management document to team wiki (@Corp_Network)

Now... I've e-mailed Bob, and moved that action to "Waiting on" using the "Complete and Await Reply" script. I may have 5 or 6 other similar AI's that I may have completed, or not started, partially completed, etc. Next week rolls around and I'm in staff meeting again and my boss says "Give me your status". I want some easy way to view Omnifocus and be able to give a run down of everything relevant that I'm working on. I want to be able to quickly realize and report that, "I've e-mailed Bob and waiting to hear back from him on the document".

I hope I'm making sense. What's the best way of doing this? A perspective perhaps? Do I need to move the actions into a different context or project?

Thoughts?

-Tom