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How are you Mac folks doing reminders and structuring to-dos?
Scott | Nov 29 2007
As of Leopard, I'm a transplant from Entourage to the Mail/Address Book/iCal/.mac combo. Over in Entourage for the past 7 years, I created a slick Zero Inbox system by using delayed reminders, using a cool combo of Applescripts that removed emails out of the Inbox until a time when I needed to deal with them. I haven't figured out a system yet in the Mail world. I'd love to hear how you Mac GTD'ers are using timers/reminders to postpone to-dos until the time you need to deal with them. I'm intrigued by OmniFocus, but it doesn't seem to be set up to do timers; more, it looks like a way to order ones to-dos in the sequence they need to be done. It might work, to switch from a popup timer world, to just remembering to look at a list. But before I dive in to OmniFocus, I'd love to hear how others are dealing with their to-dos using the Mail/Address Book/iCal/.mac combo. Thanks for any ideas. 38 Comments
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 OmniFocus and PackRat (Backpack)Submitted by korm on December 1, 2007 - 12:37pm.
I use OmniFocus for GTD, and keep PackRat right next to it in the same space on Leopard. If I need a reminder, I put it into PackRat and periodically sync up to Backpack. A limitation is that PackRat won't create recurring reminders, for which the web Backpack interface is needed. For on-the-fly creation of actions, etc., I use the OF quick entry or Quicksilver. Quicksilver can also send actions or longer snippets to OF and anything else that has a service (VoodooPad, NoteTaker, and so forth). PackRat uses Growl to popup reminders on the desktop, and Backpack will send reminders to email and/or via SMS. I don't sync (or carry) other devices, so this setup has all the features I like. An extra feature that works well is to link Jott to OmniFocus: 1) Send a message to "me" in Jott. 2) Set up the Mail Rule in OmniFocus, 3) then duplicate that rule and modify it to look for Jott emails. Call Jott, and the message gets transcribed, sent to you, then transported into your OF inbox. » POSTED IN:
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