Omnifocus as a Tool for Lists, not Tasks

Posted by Paul Korm
Mar 21, 2019 at 10:38 PM

Beck this is certainly an interesting way to “use” OmniFocus, but when I read Allen Co.‘s description of how to set up OF as a list app, it sounded a bit like taking a hammer to a Phillips-head screwdriver and banging away it until it becomes a flat-head screwdriver.

Or just buy the right tool.

I like lists—not to get things out of my brain but because I forget things that are important but not important right now. Like talk to my estate attorney once a year. I don’t need to remember that.

I hate OmniFocus because it is huge, ugly and clunky; feels like software designed by the politburo; and the Microsoft logo would look right at home on it. But, on a quarterly cycle I return to it and feed and care for it for a few weeks or a month or two, then abandon it again. Because the software alternatives are more lacking than OmniFocus is lacking.

Nothing like a good sheet of paper. I write my list for the day every morning on a little index card and that’s just fine.