[lmsboy]

Hey there,
I'm sure that a lot of Things users want to switch to OF, but they want to use a 'Today-View'.

I would love to see this feature too. So I can wake up in the morning, starts OF and select what tasks I want to done today.

Now I've to give everything an end-date. That drives me crazy :D

[lmsboy]

Originally Posted by Greg Jones

Bottom line is that Things also has a Today view that is nice, while by default OmniFocus does not (a perspective can get similar functionality). Many people believe that Things has a more attractive UI, but as the OmniFocus UI has themes, many people prefer to customize the UI of OmniFocus. Many people believe that Things has an advantage due to its simplicity, while OmniFocus can be just about as simple or as in-depth as the user wants to make it. Things Touch does have the ability to email tasks while OmniFocus iPhone does not.

On the flip side, OmniFocus has parallel and sequential tasks, sub-projects, cloud syncing, project review functionality, custom perspectives, custom toolbar with built-in commands and scripts, scheduled tasks on the Mac and the iPhone with start times, due dates with due times, alarms through Growl/Prowl, and iCal, bookmarklet to add tasks from Safari, the iPhone has Locations Services customized to contexts, imbedded browser, photo support, voice note support, repeat task support, and a completely customizable interface through the use of synced perspectives and icons while Things Mac and Things Touch... do not.

How did you get 'Today' and 'Someday' to OF? oO

[Brian]

Greg mentions in his post that he's using OmniFocus' Perspectives feature. It allows you to save custom views of your data on the Mac, then sync them over to the phone. You can name them and give them a custom icon.

If you do a forum search for threads that include the words "due or flagged perspective", there's plenty of material available for review.

I don't actually use a Today list, but something like the following may get you started.

Do the following menu selections produce a view that would help you?

View -> Context Mode
View -> Show All Projects
View -> Sidebar Filter -> Remaining
View -> Grouping -> Context
View -> Sorting -> Project
View -> Status Filter -> Due or Flagged
View -> Time Filter -> Any Status

This approach will show all your actions that are due soon or which have had a flag set on them.

If this view does show what you're looking for, you can save it for further use by selecting
Perspectives -> Save window as -> New Perspective.

You can now give the perspective a name, and switch to it at any time under the Perspectives menu.

Once you sync, you can make the list visible on your iOS device by opening OmniFocus' settings and turning Perspectives on. You'll have a new item on the home screen at that point; the today list will be inside that.

This topic is a bit removed from the original topic of the thread it was posted in, so I'm going to bust this out into a new one. Wanted to respond first, though. :-)

Now you can bring that view up from the Perspectives menu at any time.

If that view doesn't do what you want, there may be another combination of settings that does. Let us know what you need done differently and we're happy to help.

[Brian]

Okay, found your existing thread, so I moved these posts there instead. :-)

Here's a link back to the thread the previous two posts were pulled from, in case it helps other folks who browse this thread in the future.

[lmsboy]

Thank you, but what I mean in this thread is a real 'Today' flag, like the little star-icon in Things. It is very usefull. I can flag tasks for today easily and fast and they appears in 'Today'.

Now I've to set a due-date for everything - this needs much more time ;)

[hypotyposis]

Originally Posted by lmsboy

Thank you, but what I mean in this thread is a real 'Today' flag, like the little star-icon in Things. It is very usefull. I can flag tasks for today easily and fast and they appears in 'Today'.

Now I've to set a due-date for everything - this needs much more time ;)

Lmsboy, have you tried using the flags in OmniFocus for this purpose? You can easily sort by flags, and create a perspective to track this.