My New Favorite OmniFocus Perspective: Do It

Table stakes in the task management app game are, without question, the ability to winnow the flood of obligations you’ve invited into your life into a discreet, manageable list. Your list, if your capturing input–even if you’re just normal-busy–consists of 100+ things to do, either now, soon, or in the future.

Todoist shared a helpful article on the Eisenhower Matrix, and how you can adapt it for Todoist.

You can, of course, replicate such a system in OmniFocus, bolstered by the OmniFocus’s ability to defer tasks to a later date. I created a tag group:

Matrix:
– Important
– Not Important
– Urgent
– Not Urgent

OmniFocus DoIt Matrix

My “Do It” perspective focuses on items that are tagged as “urgent” and “important,” a la the Eisenhauer Matrix, as well as anything with an emergent due date. Tasks must also be “available,” in OmniFocus parlance, meaning not on hold or deferred.

OmniFocus Do It Perspective

Here’s an interesting hack to incorporate “start dates” in Todoist. I don’t like it.