Joe Buhlig is a technology guru, writer, and developer - and he’s back on the podcast to talk about his innovative ways to use OmniFocus, the task management software that we use at Asian Efficiency. Up your productivity and learn some advanced OmniFocus techniques in this episode.

Cheat Sheet

How many projects Joe actively manages at one time

His auto-parsing system for quickly adding ideas into OmniFocus

Why he has many single-action lists

What he thinks about a two-context approach to Omnifocus

The different contexts that Joe uses

About energy-based contexts

How he uses geo-fenced contexts

What Perspectives in OmniFocus are and how Joe uses them

His daily routine

About the OmniFocus “hotspot” that he set up

How he reviews his projects

Links

OmniFocus

Joe's OmniFocus setup and workflow

The two-context approach

Our blog post on "Clearing to Neutral"

Übersicht + OmniFocus task widget

hPDA (notecards)

Joe's OmniFocus hotspot

Creating Launch Daemons on Mac (for auto-parsing OmniFocus items)

OmniFocus auto-parser by Joe

Free Productivity Workshop

Connect with Joe Buhlig

Website

@joebuhlig

Joe's book Working with OmniFocus

Joe's new podcast

Screenshots from Joe Buhlig's OmniFocus:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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