Using OmniFocus with Analog Tools, Featuring Mike Williams

Productivity expert Mike Williams joins us from Southern California to share how OmniFocus can be used alongside pen & paper.

As digital tools become increasingly sophisticated, there is a tendency to leave traditional analog tools behind. However, analog tools still play an essential role in modern times. When you write on paper, you’re activating different parts of your brain than you do when using digital devices. Additionally, the simplicity of pen and paper can provide a welcome relief from our always-on digital culture.

During this session, Mike Williams will discuss the benefits of a hybrid approach to life and work that combines both digital and analog methods. You’ll be guided through practical exercises that draw upon his recently released product, The Clarity Collection. You’ll also learn how to reconcile projects and actions between OmniFocus and paper, as well as how OmniFocus tags and custom perspectives can help clarify what work has made its way into the analog world.

Since this is an interactive session, it’s recommended that you join from an environment that’s conducive to focus and interactivity.

About Mike Williams

Through his leadership roles with General Electric, The David Allen Company, and Zappos, Mike kept noticing that people were desperate for a better path to productivity to help them fight digital distractions, mind clutter, and wasteful uses of their time. But the only resources available involved complex approaches, reading thick self-help books, or participating in boring seminars.

He knew a better way existed – one rooted in simplicity and realism. In his pursuit, he spent two decades working with thousands of people across different industries – from rocket scientists to business leaders to students to nonprofit organizations.

Today, Mike assists clients using an effective coaching methodology that’s far from complicated. He also used what works to create Doing to Done—Productivity Made Simple, Illustrated for Busy People Like Us, a visually engaging book about quick wins with significant impacts. Bringing a bit of Southern California energy to his work, he firmly believes that managing stress through better productivity shouldn’t be so stressful.