My question was if OmniFocus could have tasks with defer/due times that were relative to the completion of a previous item in a project - because that seemed like a really basic and obvious requirement which applies to many different tasks for me. It doesn’t matter if the scope of the task is remembering to hang up the laundry or something to do with a budget management meeting. waiting 90 minutes for them to be washed, and waiting overnight for them to dry before they can be ironed. I chose laundry as my example because it seemed like a nearly ubiquitous task which requires multiple steps, and requires that you wait some period of time in-between those steps i.e. It could be a task where another action needs to be performed after its completion, or as an alert to notify you that you’ve spent X amount of time on a project and should move on to something else. I’m surprised that you can’t think of any projects - repeating or not - where it might be useful to have the next item in a sequence appear a set time after completing the previous item.
Splitting tasks across multiple apps breaks the underlying principles of GTD, which is what I meant about “defeating the purpose of using OmniFocus” by managing certain tasks in different apps. No task is too big or small, important or unimportant: the goal is that you get everything out of your head and into a single location so that you’re never left thinking “oh I must remember to do X” or forgetting to do a task that’s on another list or in another app. My understanding of the GTD system is that everything goes in your inbox. I would prefer that you did not, because that was not the intent of my post. I’ve liberally re-interpreted the premise of your comments. Maybe you could also give a real project rather than an example one to help appreciate your situation better, lest I am focusing too literally on washing machines completing in 90 minutes and you are focusing on budget management meetings completing over weekly intervals. The rest of your workflow can certainly be handled in OmniFocus. I cannot imagine that it is the only one that can do so. I have an app (Alarmed) that handles multiple timers on my iPhone. It (graciously and rightfully IMHO) presumes that you will use a timer for that. To leave again with a positive tone … OmniFocus is not going to substitute for the “start a timer when I start this task” action requirement in your project plan. It seems to be heading toward a request to shoe-horn OmniFocus to fit exactly what you (think that you) need, followed by fretful denouncements when it does not comply. From this, I’m not sure that I can fully appreciate your struggle. I also find contradictions in the rest of what you say. … … it defeats the purpose of using OmniFocus. This is not a project/task where I can set specific dates/times because the day/time it needs to be run always varies. How would I set it up so that Task 2 is deferred until and then due 90 minutes after Task 1 is completed so that my phone gives me a notification?Īnd then Task 3 would be deferred until 18:00 the next day. I want to create a sequential project where the defer/due times in it are based on completion of the preceding item in the list. I’m gradually trying to put everything into it, and eliminating quick ‘to do’ lists in other apps or on scraps of paper so that I can quickly bring up a perspective and see what I can do if I have a spare 5 minutes or 30 minutes etc.īut I’m struggling with what seems like it should be a simple task: The app seems great so far, but I’m finding some of the defer/due/repeat times confusing.
#Omnifocus for mac repeated tasks deferred another pro#
I just picked up OmniFocus 2 Pro after hearing about it for years and finally getting a phone that can run it
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