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todo alarmsHow are you Mac folks doing reminders and structuring to-dos? By: braintoniq (38 replies) November 29, 2007 - 3:19am
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todo alarms
I use to use iCal’s todo alarms. Mostly they would pop up and I would go “I’m in the middle of something else, I’ll get back to that” and then forget. So I’m giving OmniFocus and “check OmniFocus every time I finish something to see what I should do next”. It’s working great. Well, for the first 3 days at least. Not much of a test.
OmniFocus does let you sync things to iCal, and assign due dates, if it puts alarms on them then you are there. If not, you are half way there as you could write a little AppleScript bit to take anything with a due date in a specific calendar and add an alarm…
I haven’t tried the iCal sync yet, since I’m attempting to give a more polling oriented approach a try since interrupt driven hasn’t been as successful as I had hoped.