![]() ![]() Most of my Sundays are spent hammering away in this list. This perspective is amazing when you don’t feel so productive but you still want to do something useful to not feel bad. For example, tasks such as changing your Mac background, updating software, or emptying the trash can. The basic idea behind this one is that the list shows you tasks that have no urgency to get done and take very little energy to complete. This is one of my favorite perspectives: the low-energy perspective. Setting up a flagged perspective is really simple, because it comes by default with Omnifocus! A simple way to get started with that is to use the Next Actions perspectives from above and flag the tasks you want to do for the day. It’s like due dates you end up guessing too much when something should be done or available. ![]() I know some people prefer using start dates, but I found it to be really inefficient. You just flag your tasks and then they show up on a separate list (perspective). Here at Asian Efficiency we really like using the flag feature of Omnifocus to come up with a Today list (things you want to do that day). Anytime you look at this perspective, you should see all your next actions of your projects. Save the perspective as “Next Actions” (Perspectives > Save Window As > New Perspective). Make sure you select the Library folder on the left sidebar and in Project Mode.This perspectives pulls up all the tasks that are the “bottle necks” of projects: Within Omnifocus, if your projects set to parallel, the task on the top of the list is your next action (or at least should be!). The Next Action perspective is the one which shows you all the tasks that need to be completed to move a project forward. Here are some must-have perspectives you need to have. Perspectives will greatly help your workflow, especially in conjunction with the Pomodoro Technique. If not, you need to read our article on perspectives: one by Aaron and one by yours truly. I am going to assume you know what perspectives are in Omnifocus. Several readers have emailed us telling how it takes hours to implement everything, so if you have an afternoon of nothing to do, this would be a great way to do something useful. In order to get the most utility value from Omnifocus, we have a list articles on how to use Omnifocus. Next up is our favorite task manager Omnifocus. Okay, you should have an idea now how PT works. I often to do this myself so I can start solar flaring to overcome procrastination. If you have done enough pomodoros over time you know that 25 minutes is really not that long, which helps you convince yourself to do a pomodoro when you’re not feeling like getting stuff done. When you feel like procrastinating, do a 25/5 cycle. ![]()
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