Hi all!
I just got Omnifocus. Was using Things before, but they are to slow in develpment and I'm a bit pissed off..
Omnifocus is looking good so far and I think it is not so difficult to get into it, but there are some open questions for me:
Start and due date. That is fine for me, but I donīt see a big difference if I set the visibility to "next action" or "available"
Next thing is the reminder function. It makes no sense for me: reminding me on due dates (via calendar) is to late. It would be better to get a reminder on the start date or do I get something wrong? For an example: I need to do some documentation and I know, it will take arround 2 days (it is part of a project). So I set the start date to Monday next week and the due date to Wednesday afternoon, because the documents have to be finished by Wednesday afternoon, to send them out for a review. Getting a reminder on due date, it is way to late to do anything then.. Getting a reminder when I should start would be better, because maybe I'm focussed on something else and forgot it..
I saw I can set a reminder for due dates, mine is set to 3 days so if I have to do a task in between the 3 days, lets say in 2 days and save it, I will not get a reminder, right?
Next is the location based reminder. Not tested yet, but what do get reminded then? Tasks/Actions have to be done, because they starting/started today or again only the ones with a due date in the next days?
Many thanks in advance!
brasax
I just got Omnifocus. Was using Things before, but they are to slow in develpment and I'm a bit pissed off..
Omnifocus is looking good so far and I think it is not so difficult to get into it, but there are some open questions for me:
Start and due date. That is fine for me, but I donīt see a big difference if I set the visibility to "next action" or "available"
Next thing is the reminder function. It makes no sense for me: reminding me on due dates (via calendar) is to late. It would be better to get a reminder on the start date or do I get something wrong? For an example: I need to do some documentation and I know, it will take arround 2 days (it is part of a project). So I set the start date to Monday next week and the due date to Wednesday afternoon, because the documents have to be finished by Wednesday afternoon, to send them out for a review. Getting a reminder on due date, it is way to late to do anything then.. Getting a reminder when I should start would be better, because maybe I'm focussed on something else and forgot it..
I saw I can set a reminder for due dates, mine is set to 3 days so if I have to do a task in between the 3 days, lets say in 2 days and save it, I will not get a reminder, right?
Next is the location based reminder. Not tested yet, but what do get reminded then? Tasks/Actions have to be done, because they starting/started today or again only the ones with a due date in the next days?
Many thanks in advance!
brasax
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