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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OmniFocus - Reminders
In OmniFocus, you can set the “Start Date” of any ToDo item (in the “Dates” inspector) to be a date say two weeks from today. That way, this ToDo item will not be “Available” for two weeks from now. Two weeks later though, this ToDo item will become available and join the other ToDos that you have lined up in different projects waiting to be completed. This is just the way I prefer reminders to be - not bark at me to complete them, but smoothly join the list of actions I need to get done at the appropriate time.