I'm new to the OmniFocus world but after hearing some podcasts (Mac Power Users and Back to work) hearing the great things about omnifocus I decided to try it out. In the past I've used Toodledo and RTM but neither of them ever felt "complete" to me. I was skeptical of using things like OF or Things because I like the idea of keeping everything in sync. I have a mac laptop at home, mac at work, and an iPad (plus an adroid phone but he's SOL for the moment). But I have my own WebDAV server that I sync with my Dropbox account so I feel pretty comfortable that my main devices will have my data when I needed it. I'm also in the process of going through DA's GTD book so now I'm trying to setup a basic Workflow to get me started.
Folders
From reading through blog posts and forums here it seems folders are mainly used for Areas of Focus. I have the following so far
Business - Projects for a side business I'm planning to start
Clients (With sub-folder per client) for Companies/People I do side work for
Developer - All things Developer focused I do
Home - Projects around the House or with Wife
Personal - Personal projects (my blog, photography, etc)
Work - My 8x5 job
Contexts
This still confuses me a bit on how to uses these effectively, but from everything I've read it seems I just need to jump in and try one system and if it's not working for me change it up to something that is. I fall in the category of I'm always on a computer
@Errands, Stuff to do when I'm out
@Home
@Office - stuff to do when I'm at work but not at the computer (meetings, one-on-ones, etc)
@Mac - Anything that I can do on my mac (I put both Work and non work related here and filter it out using Focus mode)
@Email
@Online
@Direct Reports - Any action that I need to involve one of my direct reports
@Report's name (Context is on-hold) this is how I'm going to try and track delegated tasks I'm waiting for from a specific person
@People (with sub-contexts for people I speak to often) - Actions that need to involve others in my life work and non-work related
@Waiting - Any action that is waiting on something other than my direct reports
Strategy
My approach right now to getting this workflow to work is; Create all my projects in the appropriate folder (area of responsibility). Each action of the project will have a context set appropriate to what I need in order to complete it (Phone, Mac, Office, Etc). Than each day I'm doing work I'll focus to that particular area (i.e. Work when I'm at my real Job). This should hide other actions not under my Work folder if I understand the Focus mode correctly.
Does this seem like a good first step at working OmniFocus into my system? Any comments, advice, or lessons learned from others who may have tried a similar workflow, or pitfalls I may run into starting with this?