O'Reilly Blog Reaction to OmniFocus
Jochen Wolters presents a project in which the goal is to back up a hard drive monthly.
He writes:
When he sets up the project, everything seems to be working fine until he adds the task of cloning the hard drive weekly.
I haven't written a response to the review because I haven't played with the best way to set up this project.
One approach would be to create two projects:
1) Create weekly Hard Drive Clone
- repeating task set for weekly from completion date
(instead of creating a project for this you could also create a single-action list containing other maintenance things such as clean computer desktop, empty junk mail folder, etc.)
2) Back up Data offsite
- sequential tasks 1. check latest back-up 2. take back up to offsite location 3. bring hard drive home (project set to repeat monthly)
It would be interesting to see responses here or on the O'Reilly Blog Reaction to OmniFocus
Jochen Wolters presents a project in which the goal is to back up a hard drive monthly.
He writes:
Quote:
| "As soon as you decide to repeat a project's actions with different time intervals, however, OmniFocus fails rather miserably at deciding what the Next Action should be" |
I haven't written a response to the review because I haven't played with the best way to set up this project.
One approach would be to create two projects:
1) Create weekly Hard Drive Clone
- repeating task set for weekly from completion date
(instead of creating a project for this you could also create a single-action list containing other maintenance things such as clean computer desktop, empty junk mail folder, etc.)
2) Back up Data offsite
- sequential tasks 1. check latest back-up 2. take back up to offsite location 3. bring hard drive home (project set to repeat monthly)
It would be interesting to see responses here or on the O'Reilly Blog Reaction to OmniFocus
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