Our bodies have a natural rhythmic cycle and we learn to pay attention to them. These are the time periods of the day where I have focus and can do certain types of deep work/focus. I’ve discarded the notion of using tags for energy since it never really worked for me.Īfter a few months, I’ve learned when my “golden” hours are. Search for next actions on Location: Office + Focus Level: (none) + Time < 30 min. Decide on appropriate time settings for long, medium, and short times. Third, rather than labels, remember that OF provides an estimated duration setting. A similar case applies with home BTW (do you really have someone demanding that you spend home time inside versus outside, or is this a decision that can be made at the point you review the task list searching on -home?). A hypothetical fantasy example might be when your boss demands that you spend at least 5 hours per day in Quickbooks and at least 2 hours per day in Quickbase. Finally, with tool(s), unless you have a specific reason driven by external demands to distinguish Quickbase and Quickbooks when you search for the next available task, do not make this distinction in the labels themselves. ![]() But if the task is possible to do at any focus level, no tag should be applied. Or for example with focus level, if the task must be done with a high focus in a short time, mark as such. For example, with location, if the task can be done anywhere, then no specific label from that category applies. Second, when defining a task, only set labels as they are appropriate to your need to make an executive decision later. Interested to hear the responses… I am really struggling with this even if after using OF for about 2 years. If I have 10 minutes I can only do quick etc. If I have 1 hour I can do long, medium, or quick tasks. I next the tags so that the show what is underneath them. ![]() I could create a perspective for everything combination but I would probably have 100 perspectives. But if I am fried how do I select low energy now? It seems I can only filter by two things at a time. ![]() Okay that takes care of the time filters… When I click on each of them I can select a tool on the left pane, great that takes care of the tool/context filters. However, I can only filter on a max of two things at a time… Without creating a zillion perspectives.įor example, I have created a perspective for Short Duration Tasks, Normal Duration Tasks, and Long Duration Tasks. So if I am in my office, fried, and have 30 minutes I want to be able to filter on that criteria. I am a GTD’er and one of the fundamental methods to selecting your next actions is the combination of Context (tool available), time available, and energy. I LOVE Omnifocus better than any other tool I have tried (except for the web version, but that is for another post).
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