Learn OmniFocus

OmniFocus Workflows with Rose Orchard
2018-05-23 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Vancouver)
Rose Orchard is taking centre stage on Learn OmniFocus LIVE to share details of how she uses OmniFocus and complementary apps to manage her multifaceted life, that includes working as a full-time developer and pursuing a master’s degree.

In addition to showcasing her OmniFocus setup and day-to-day workflows, Rose will demonstrate how she makes extensive use of Workflow for iOS (an app that was acquired by Apple last year) to bring convenience and consistency to OmniFocus.
Rose is one of the lucky few who’s had access to OmniFocus 3 for iOS since early March, and she’ll be talking about how she’s making the transition to this major new releases, including how she’s using tags to add ease and efficiency to her workflows.
About Rose Orchard
Rose is originally from England and currently lives in Vienna, Austria. She’s fluent in English, French and German and previously called France, Germany, and Luxembourg home. She’s currently working full time as a developer at the Technical University of Vienna and pursuing an MSc in Computing (Software Engineering) at the Open University online. She previously attended university in Portsmouth, U.K. to study French, German and TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language).
Rose writes about productivity, automation and technology on her personal blog, is an Administrator of the very popular Mac Power Users Facebook group and is a frequent contributor to the Omni Group’s forums and Slack channel. She was also recently a workflow guest on the Mac Power User’s Podcast.
An Interactive Experience
During the live session you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions and share insights using the chat box and audio/video conferencing. You’re welcome to join the live session 15 minutes before the start time to familiarize yourself with the online meeting technology we’re using and for an informal chat with other participants. The live session will remain active for 15 minutes after the completion time for additional questions and sharing.
Recommended Prerequisites
Especially if you’re new to OmniFocus, it’s recommended that you watch the recording of the Start Smart with OmniFocus webinar before attending this webinar. You might also want to watch the recording of the OmniFocus: Beyond the Basics webinar.

Learn OmniFocus Office Hours
2018-05-16 16:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-18 09:00 - 10:00, 2018-03-21 16:00 - 17:00, 2018-03-14 12:00 - 13:00, 2018-02-21 16:00 - 17:00, 2018-02-15 11:00 - 12:00, 2018-01-24 16:00 - 17:00, 2018-01-18 11:00 - 12:00 and 12 more dates
Learn OmniFocus Office Hours gives you the opportunity to discuss and ask questions about your OmniFocus setup and workflows in a video-conferenced virtual conference room. This session will be facilitated by Learn OmniFocus Founder, Tim Stringer.
To allow for maximum interactivity, registration in this session is limited to 10 participants. When you register you’ll be asked to agree to join with your video camera turn on and to keep what’s shared by other participants confidential. To help protect the privacy of participants, sessions won’t be recorded.

You’re welcome to discuss and ask questions about anything related to OmniFocus and complementary third-party apps. You can optionally share your Mac or iOS screen with the group to add a visual element to the discussions. In order to share your iOS screen, you’ll need to join the virtual meeting from a Mac that’s on the same network as your iOS device.
If you register and discover that you’re not able to attend, please let us know ASAP so that we can make your spot available to another Learn OmniFocus Member.
Recommended Prerequisites
Especially if you’re new to OmniFocus, it’s recommended that you watch the recording of Start Smart with OmniFocus before attending this live session. You might also want to watch the recording of OmniFocus: Beyond the Basics.

Managing Someday/Maybe Lists with OmniFocus
2018-04-11 11:00 - 12:00
Learn how to use OmniFocus to manage lists of things that you’d like to consider doing in the future, but that aren’t actionable in the present. In the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology, David Allen refers to these lists as “someday/maybe lists”.
Overview of Live Session
This session is all about managing someday/maybe lists at a practical level and how you can use OmniFocus to ensure that these lists are reviewed periodically.
While someday/maybe lists can be stored in OmniFocus, it may be more practical to store at least some of these lists outside of OmniFocus. We’ll explore a variety of different scenarios and help you determine what will work best for you. And by participating in the live session you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions and share your insights.

Capturing, Organizing and Getting Creative
As you process items that you’ve captured in your inbox, you’ll inevitably encounter things that that are not ready for action. This could include something as simple as an idea for a blog post to lofty dreams such as building a beautiful home by the sea or starting a new company.
It’s important to have one or more places to keep track of all of the stuff that you want to revisit in the future.
It’s equally important that you be intentional about reviewing these future aspirations. If your psyche trusts that you’re going to look at what you’ve captured on a regular basis, you’ll likely find that you’ll have a greater capacity to focus on current projects and actions without pie-in-the-sky ideas stealing your mental focus.
As you review what you’ve captured you can tap into your innate creativity and let your imagination soar. You’ll decide what to keep, what is ripe for further exploration and what to remove from the list. If find you accumulate more ideas than you’re likely to be able to accomplishing a lifetime, it might be time to give some away and/or start to think about expanding your team.
David Allen on Someday/Maybe Lists
In the book “Getting Things Done”, David Allen coined the term “Someday/Maybe”. He shares how “…it can be useful and inspiring to maintain an ongoing list of things you might want to do at some point but not now”. He goes on to say that “…this is a ‘parking lot’ for projects that would be impossible to move on at present but that you don’t want to forget about entirely. You’d like to be reminded of the possibilities at regular intervals”.
“Activating and maintaining your Someday/Maybe category unleashes the flow of your creative thinking—you have permission to imagine cool things to do without having to commit to doing anything about them yet.”
— David Allen (from Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity)
What You’ll Learn
Attend the live session and learn:

Why it’s important to have someday/maybe lists.
Advantages to storing someday/maybe lists in OmniFocus.
Advantages to storing someday/maybe outside of OmniFocus (e.g. in apps like Evernote, Trello and Apple Notes).
How to manage someday/maybe lists that are shared by a group of people (e.g. your family or a team at work).
How often you need to review someday/maybe lists.
How to use OmniFocus to ensure that both your individual and shared someday/maybe lists get the appropriate amount of attention.
Best practices for reviewing your someday/maybe lists.
Best practices for creating OmniFocus projects based on someday/maybe lists.
And more…

Recommended Prerequisites
Especially if you’re new to OmniFocus, it’s recommended that you watch the recording of the Start Smart with OmniFocus session before attending this live session. You might also want to watch the recording of the OmniFocus: Beyond the Basics session.

OmniFocus Workflows with Colter Reed
2018-02-27 10:00 - 23:00
Software developer and blogger, Colter Reed will be taking centre stage on Learn OmniFocus LIVE to share how he uses OmniFocus and complementary apps to manage his multifaceted life.

OmniFocus is a common theme on Colter’s blog, and he has some innovative approaches to project and task management.
To get a taste of his approach, check out his recent post, A More Powerful Way to Schedule Tasks in OmniFocus. He also shares about how he integrates with other apps. For example, his Complete Your Digital Planning System with Evernote post delves into how he using Evernote, in concert with OmniFocus and Calendar, drawing some inspiration from his past uses of a paper-based Franklin Planner.
About Colter Reed
By day, Colter Reed transforms brilliant ideas into beautiful software. He brings out the best in people by providing them with technology that allows them to do things that wouldn’t otherwise be possible.
He’s also a prolific writer. Colter’s blog covers the gamut from the basic principles of productivity and personal growth to technology-focused posts that feature some of his favourite Mac and iOS apps, including OmniFocus and Evernote. In addition to helping you put out the fires that crop up daily, he’ll help you take a step back and see why so many fires are cropping up in the first place.
Colter lives in the heart of Silicon Valley with his wife and children. He enjoys golf, sings baritone, and watches mostly British TV shows.
An Interactive Experience
During the live session you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions and share insights using the chat box and audio/video conferencing. You’re welcome to join the live session 15 minutes before the start time to familiarize yourself with the online meeting technology we’re using and for an informal chat with other participants. The live session will remain active for 15 minutes after the completion time for additional questions and sharing.
Recommended Prerequisites
Especially if you’re new to OmniFocus, it’s recommended that you watch the recording of the Start Smart with OmniFocus webinar before attending this webinar. You might also want to watch the recording of the OmniFocus: Beyond the Basics webinar.

Mastering Reviews with OmniFocus
2018-01-10 11:00 - 12:00
Performing regularly reviews is key to having a productivity system that is reliable, useful and trusted. This practice also provides the opportunity to rise above the day-to-day tasks and to look at the big picture of your life and work. Ultimately, reviews help ensure that the projects and actions you’ve defined are taking you down a productive path.
Overview of Live Session
If you’re not currently performing regular reviews, this session is designed to help you get started. And if you do have a review practice, what you’ll learn will support you in taking your reviews to the next level.

The GTD Weekly Review®
We’ll draw some wisdom from the GTD Weekly Review®, that’s an integral part of David Allen’s Getting Things Done® (GTD®) approach to productivity. In a nutshell, this approach has three distinct components:

Get Clear — Gather everything that has your attention and process your physical and digital inboxes to zero.
Get Current — Review and evaluate your projects, single action lists, waiting lists, and longer-term goals and outcomes.
Get Creative — Review your someday/maybe lists and unleash your creative prowess.

What You’ll Learn
Attend the live session and learn:

Why reviews are so important and the consequences of not doing regular reviews.
Strategies for getting into the habit of performing regular reviews and common pitfalls to watch out for.
How to use create self-completing, repeating projects in OmniFocus that support you in systematically performing reviews.
What to include in daily, weekly and monthly review projects.
What to make a repeating single action (i.e. what not to include in repeating projects).
How to ensure that all elements of your system, including both physical and digital inboxes, are included in your reviews.
About the importance of reviewing the calendar regularly.
How to engage with your someday/maybe list(s) during reviews.
How to make effective use of OmniFocus’ built-in Review perspective.
How to use reviews as an opportunity to tap into your creativity.
And more…

An Interactive Experience
During the live session you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions and share insights using the chat box and audio/video conferencing. You’re welcome to join the live session 15 minutes before the start time to familiarize yourself with the online meeting technology we’re using and for an informal chat with other participants. The live session will remain active for 15 minutes after the completion time for additional questions and sharing.
Recommended Prerequisites
Especially if you’re new to OmniFocus, it’s recommended that you watch the recording of the Start Smart with OmniFocus webinar before attending this webinar. You might also want to watch the recording of the OmniFocus: Beyond the Basics webinar.

OmniFocus Workflows with Lee Garrett
2017-11-08 11:00 - 12:00
Productivity Coach/Consultant and IT Project Manager, Lee Garrett will be taking centre stage on Learn OmniFocus LIVE to share how he uses OmniFocus and complementary apps to manage his multifaceted life.

About Lee Garrett
Lee Garrett is a Productivity Ninja at Think Productive, a UK-based organization that was founded in 2009 by best-selling author Graham Allcott.
As a member of the Think Productive team, Lee works with client organizations that want to increase productivity. He works with employees to feel more in control and helps them bring a more playful, productive momentum to the work that they do.
Lee is also a self-employed IT Project Manager who specializes in Mac infrastructure, project management and solutions architecture. While much of his work is in education, his years of experience have provided him with exposure to many other industries, including healthcare.
Lee shares his productivity and technology musings on his popular blog, MyProductiveMac. His posts focus on making productive using of Apple technology, while also having fun. Not surprisingly, OmniFocus and complementary third-party apps are prominently featured on his blog. Lee also has extensive experience with many other Mac and iOS apps, including DEVONthink, TextExpander, Alfred, Drafts, and Evernote.
Lee and his family call the seaside town of Margate, England home.
An Interactive Experience
During the live session you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions and share insights using the chat box and audio/video conferencing. You’re welcome to join the live session 15 minutes before the start time to familiarize yourself with the online meeting technology we’re using and for an informal chat with other participants. The live session will remain active for 15 minutes after the completion time for additional questions and sharing.
Recommended Prerequisites
Especially if you’re new to OmniFocus, it’s recommended that you watch the recording of the Start Smart with OmniFocus live session before attending this live session. You might also want to watch the recording of the OmniFocus: Beyond the Basics live session to round out your knowledge of OmniFocus’ features.

Managing Large Projects with OmniFocus
2017-09-13 11:00 - 12:00
Large projects can span weeks, months or even years. They may be something that you take on personally (e.g. completing a university degree) or as part of a team of people (e.g. building a house). It’s important to have a strategy when taking on these major endeavours and a solid system to help keep you on track. Otherwise, procrastination will likely kick in and the project will end up taking much more time and energy than is necessary.
Overview of Live Session
This live session will take you through the process of bringing large projects to fruition using OmniFocus and complementary third-party apps.
We’ll cover the full project lifecycle, everything from the initial project planning to managing the details of the discrete actions that contribute to the ultimate outcome. We’ll look at how OmniFocus fits into the picture if you’re working on the project as part of a team. And you’ll learn some practical strategies for staying productive and motivated, even when the finish line is far off in the future.
What You’ll Learn
Attend the live session and learn:

Practical strategies for approaching large projects that you’re taking on individually or as part of a team.
How to manage and monitor the big picture of long-term projects without feeling overwhelmed by the scale of the project.
How to structure large projects in OmniFocus.
The advantages of using multiple smaller projects instead of a larger project with numerous groups.
How to manage project checklists in OmniFocus to help ensure that nothing falls through the cracks.
Strategies for staying motivated when working on long-term projects and for making consistent progress on projects who’s deadline is months or even years away.
And more…

Planning, managing and monitoring large projects typically requires the use of complementary third-party apps. This live session will feature OmniOutliner, OmniPlan, MindNode, Asana, Trello and Evernote. We’ll explore how each of these apps can be useful and how they relate to OmniFocus.
An Interactive Experience
During the live session you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions and share insights using the chat box and audio/video conferencing. You’re welcome to join the live session 15 minutes before the start time to familiarize yourself with the online meeting technology we’re using and for an informal chat with other participants. The live session will remain active for 15 minutes after the completion time for additional questions and sharing.
Recommended Prerequisites
Especially if you’re new to OmniFocus, it’s recommended that you watch the recording of the Start Smart with OmniFocus webinar before attending this webinar. You might also want to watch the recording of the OmniFocus: Beyond the Basics webinar.

Learn OmniFocus Office Hours
2017-06-22 09:00 - 10:00, 2017-06-07 16:00 - 17:00, 2017-05-31 09:00 - 10:00
Learn OmniFocus Office Hours gives you the opportunity to discuss and ask questions about your OmniFocus setup and workflows in a video-conferenced virtual conference room. This session will be facilitated by Learn OmniFocus Founder, Tim Stringer.
To allow for maximum interactivity, registration in this session is limited to 10 participants. When you register you’ll be asked to agree to join with your video camera turn on and to keep what’s shared by other participants confidential. To help protect the privacy of participants, sessions won’t be recorded.

You’re welcome to discuss and ask questions about anything related to OmniFocus and complementary third-party apps. You can optionally share your Mac or iOS screen with the group to add a visual element to the discussions. In order to share your iOS screen, you’ll need to join the virtual meeting from a Mac that’s on the same network as your iOS device.
If you register and discover that you’re not able to attend, please let us know ASAP so that we can make your spot available to another Learn OmniFocus Member.
Recommended Prerequisites
Especially if you’re new to OmniFocus, it’s recommended that you watch the recording of the Start Smart with OmniFocus webinar before attending this webinar. You might also want to watch the recording of the OmniFocus: Beyond the Basics webinar.

Learn OmniFocus Office Hours
2017-04-28 16:00 - 17:00
Learn OmniFocus Office Hours gives you the opportunity to discuss and ask questions about your OmniFocus setup and workflows in a video-conferenced virtual conference room. This session will be facilitated by Learn OmniFocus Founder, Tim Stringer.
To allow for maximum interactivity, registration in this session is limited to 15 participants. When you register you’ll be asked to agree to join with your video camera turn on and to keep what’s shared by other participants confidential. To help protect the privacy of participants, sessions won’t be recorded.

You’re welcome to discuss and ask questions about anything related to OmniFocus and complementary third-party apps. You can optionally share your Mac or iOS screen with the group to add a visual element to the discussions. In order to share your iOS screen, you’ll need to join the virtual meeting from a Mac that’s on the same network as your iOS device.
If you register and discover that you’re not able to attend, please let us know ASAP so that we can make your spot available to another Learn OmniFocus Member.
Recommended Prerequisites
Especially if you’re new to OmniFocus, it’s recommended that you watch the recording of the Start Smart with OmniFocus webinar before attending this webinar. You might also want to watch the recording of the OmniFocus: Beyond the Basics webinar.
