How are you Mac folks doing reminders and structuring to-dos?
Submitted by braintoniq on November 29, 2007 - 3:19am.
As of Leopard, I’m a transplant from Entourage to the Mail/Address Book/iCal/.mac combo. Over in Entourage for the past 7 years, I created a slick Zero Inbox system by using delayed reminders, using a cool combo of Applescripts that removed emails out of the Inbox until a time when I needed to deal with them. I haven’t figured out a system yet in the Mail world.
I’d love to hear how you Mac GTD’ers are using timers/reminders to postpone to-dos until the time you need to deal with them. I’m intrigued by OmniFocus, but it doesn’t seem to be set up to do timers; more, it looks like a way to order ones to-dos in the sequence they need to be done. It might work, to switch from a popup timer world, to just remembering to look at a list. But before I dive in to OmniFocus, I’d love to hear how others are dealing with their to-dos using the Mail/Address Book/iCal/.mac combo.
Thanks for any ideas.
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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.