I downloaded it and it looks like Apple was right, this thing looks amazing. I have a workflow system with OmniFocus that keeps me on top of my prayer list, shopping list, sermon prep, visitation schedule and every other thing I DO as a pastor.Įvery year I look at Apple’s design awards and this year there was something called Agenda. I Would store all my sermons and Bible studies and notes in DevonThink.Īll Action items go in OmniFocus. Because DevinThink takes all sorts of documents, it handles HTML and links very nicely and manages photos great. I would take notes at meeting in ByWord and save the document to DevonThink. DevonThink is a document manager with a stellar search. Then it changed CEOs, got business centered, raised their price and got very confusing to use.
It also takes links and photos and has a rudimentary task list. For years, I used evernote as a general dumping ground for thoughts, information and data. Add TaskPaper to OmniFocus: Put everything we've generated above into OmniFocus.As a Pastor, I need to keep lots of information and I need to stay on top of my tasks.Text: Format the action group here, with the name of the assignment, defer date and due date and the questions as subtasks.Text: Format the action group here, with the defer and due dates (these are inherited), followed by the tasks which were input and formatted.Combine Text: Put these tasks back together with line breaks between them,.Text: Format it with a tab indent and the - used to indicate a task in TaskPaper.Split Text: Break up the lines of tasks.Ask for Input: Input the tasks which need to be completed.Choose from Menu: Is this a study or assignment section/block.Repeat: Going through every section/block.Ask for Input: How many sections or blocks does the course have?.Ask for Input: The course name (which is the project name in OmniFocus).This whole Workflow generates TaskPaper and adds it to OmniFocus for me.
In the assignment section I input the name of the assignment and the number of questions it has which generates subtasks for me. In the study section, I input the tasks and format them as taskpaper. This is a menu which allows me to use different actions based on which option is selected. I use the start and end dates to set due and defer dates, and then select if this section is to study something or to submit something (study or assignment). If I know that the course is split into weeks then I modify this action in advance to just use "Week Repeat Index" as the name of the section. We then go through every section inputting the name of it. As such the first thing it does after I input the project name (which is the class name) is to ask me how many sections there are in the course. This workflow should add each section of work or assessment to OmniFocus as an action group, deferred and due as is appropriate. I always put assessments in their own blocks, because they are broken into sub sections as well. Each of my courses is separated into action groups - sometimes the courses divide their materials into weekly blocks, and sometimes they're divided into blocks based on assessments. The project will already exist as I have to register for the course, and potentially order course materials or communicate with the course professors before I get the syllabus. The purpose of this Workflow is to add my syllabus to my OmniFocus project for that class. I was asked to talk through my thought process behind a Workflow by powderizedbookworm in the OmniFocus Slack, so this post will go into more detail than usual.
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