“Creating Flow” vs “Going with the Flow”
What does “Going with the Flow” mean? Does it mean we simply react to our surroundings? Does it mean doing what we want at whim? Does it mean avoiding confrontation? A Dilemma Intuitively, we know that being interested in work can make a big...Calendar Integration – Part 1: On Time Blocking
What is time blocking? Time blocking is the act of scheduling sessions of work on a calendar. By deliberately assigning work time on a calendar, we automatically acknowledge the immutable resource of time. Several productivity writers tout the strengths of time...The Inbox is Returning to Project View
One of the big complaints made in the transition from OmniFocus 1 to 2 was the loss of the Inbox from the Project view. The workarounds were to either: assign a task to a project using the given fields or the Inspector create a new window using Option-Command-N to...Chaotic Workflows Part 4: Creating Space for Practice
Welcome to the Chaotic Workflow series. Check out Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 here. In the last several posts, we’ve been addressing chaos using at least three major categories: • Saying “No” • Satellite Task Systems • Creating Space for Practice Today we’ll look...Chaotic Workflows Part 3: Satellite Task Systems
Continuing the Chaotic Workflow series …
Here we get into “Satellite” Task systems that function as branches from a central system.
