In relation to my OmniFocus talks and screencasts, I often get questions and e-mails about how I incorporate my calendar events.
I don’t.
In my mind, calendar events and task items are two separate and distinct things. Put simply, tasks are things I need to do and calendar items are places I need to be. The only overlap is when I have tasks relating to a calendar event. For example, if I have a meeting with you tomorrow at 10 AM to finalize plans for a death ray we are building together, I will have some tasks in OmniFocus to prepare materials and designs in advance. (Since these items would need to be done before we met, they are excellent candidates for a due date.)
In contrast, if I have an appointment with my optometrist to get fitted for a monocle, there are no related tasks and it would not appear anywhere in OmniFocus.
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I frequently integrate Calendar events as 'waiting for' tasks or by setting a start date for the next task. Since there'd be at least three steps in your example: schedule appointment, get prescription, and pickup finished monocle, I'd create a 'Purchase Monocle' project and account for the appointment one way or another.
I frequently integrate Calendar events as 'waiting for' tasks or by setting a start date for the next task. Since there'd be at least three steps in your example: schedule appointment, get prescription, and pickup finished monocle, I'd create a 'Purchase Monocle' project and account for the appointment one way or another.
I frequently integrate Calendar events as 'waiting for' tasks or by setting a start date for the next task. Since there'd be at least three steps in your example: schedule appointment, get prescription, and pickup finished monocle, I'd create a 'Purchase Monocle' project and account for the appointment one way or another.
I frequently integrate Calendar events as 'waiting for' tasks or by setting a start date for the next task. Since there'd be at least three steps in your example: schedule appointment, get prescription, and pickup finished monocle, I'd create a 'Purchase Monocle' project and account for the appointment one way or another.
I frequently integrate Calendar events as 'waiting for' tasks or by setting a start date for the next task. Since there'd be at least three steps in your example: schedule appointment, get prescription, and pickup finished monocle, I'd create a 'Purchase Monocle' project and account for the appointment one way or another.
But what about tasks that are time-sensitive? If we are holding a conference to show off our death ray, shouldn't we have a series of tasks that must be accomplished to build & test our death ray and have marketing materials prepared for our conference, all of which would have different due dates that would be on a calendar?
Or would these reside only in Omnifocus' forecast (calendar) function?
But what about tasks that are time-sensitive? If we are holding a conference to show off our death ray, shouldn't we have a series of tasks that must be accomplished to build & test our death ray and have marketing materials prepared for our conference, all of which would have different due dates that would be on a calendar?
Or would these reside only in Omnifocus' forecast (calendar) function?
But what about tasks that are time-sensitive? If we are holding a conference to show off our death ray, shouldn't we have a series of tasks that must be accomplished to build & test our death ray and have marketing materials prepared for our conference, all of which would have different due dates that would be on a calendar?
Or would these reside only in Omnifocus' forecast (calendar) function?
But what about tasks that are time-sensitive? If we are holding a conference to show off our death ray, shouldn't we have a series of tasks that must be accomplished to build & test our death ray and have marketing materials prepared for our conference, all of which would have different due dates that would be on a calendar?
Or would these reside only in Omnifocus' forecast (calendar) function?
But what about tasks that are time-sensitive? If we are holding a conference to show off our death ray, shouldn't we have a series of tasks that must be accomplished to build & test our death ray and have marketing materials prepared for our conference, all of which would have different due dates that would be on a calendar?
Or would these reside only in Omnifocus' forecast (calendar) function?
Don't forget to stop by your local haberdashery and pick up a nice top hat to go with that monocle! Better pencil it in…
Don't forget to stop by your local haberdashery and pick up a nice top hat to go with that monocle! Better pencil it in…
Don't forget to stop by your local haberdashery and pick up a nice top hat to go with that monocle! Better pencil it in…
Don't forget to stop by your local haberdashery and pick up a nice top hat to go with that monocle! Better pencil it in…
Don't forget to stop by your local haberdashery and pick up a nice top hat to go with that monocle! Better pencil it in…
Ed,
those tasks are things that need to be done by a certain date, not that need to be done on a certain date. You need to have the death ray done by the date of the demonstration to the world leaders, so constructing it is an OmniFocus action with a due date. You are demonstrating the death ray by obliterating the UN building on Saturday at 3 PM, during the football game, so that goes on the calendar.
Ed,
those tasks are things that need to be done by a certain date, not that need to be done on a certain date. You need to have the death ray done by the date of the demonstration to the world leaders, so constructing it is an OmniFocus action with a due date. You are demonstrating the death ray by obliterating the UN building on Saturday at 3 PM, during the football game, so that goes on the calendar.
Ed,
those tasks are things that need to be done by a certain date, not that need to be done on a certain date. You need to have the death ray done by the date of the demonstration to the world leaders, so constructing it is an OmniFocus action with a due date. You are demonstrating the death ray by obliterating the UN building on Saturday at 3 PM, during the football game, so that goes on the calendar.
Ed,
those tasks are things that need to be done by a certain date, not that need to be done on a certain date. You need to have the death ray done by the date of the demonstration to the world leaders, so constructing it is an OmniFocus action with a due date. You are demonstrating the death ray by obliterating the UN building on Saturday at 3 PM, during the football game, so that goes on the calendar.
Ed,
those tasks are things that need to be done by a certain date, not that need to be done on a certain date. You need to have the death ray done by the date of the demonstration to the world leaders, so constructing it is an OmniFocus action with a due date. You are demonstrating the death ray by obliterating the UN building on Saturday at 3 PM, during the football game, so that goes on the calendar.