I’d forgotten about the Someday section. I have a feeling I stopped using it as stuff used to get forgotten about there. I might try that again and make a weekly reminder to prompt me to look in there and review it.
True, I have the same problem. Now that I think about it, its one of the things that annoys me about Things.
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I’m evaluating if I should move from Things to OF4. How do you create perspectives and deferred tasks in Things?
These days, you can get something similar to OmniFocus’ Perspectives in Things by using the Shortcuts app to show you different list views, but they are not as powerful as OmniFocus. Deferred tasks in Things are ones where the “When” date is not in the Anytime list, but rather the Upcoming list. (Command-S to change the date of a task on a Mac, for example).
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Well, if you’re anything like me, you’ll buy it and use it, then switch back for Things 4!
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“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” ― Albert Einstein
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I’ve used a combination of “When” tags to schedule reviews. It might specify W2 for the second week of each month, JUNE for the month, or Q3 for the start of the quarter. Personally, that’s worked great. Once one sets that initially, it’s pretty much autopilot.
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If you decide on the monthly/annual subscription all platforms are included.
Here’s another Omnifocus 4 review, by Peter Akiss. He has an Omnifocus 3 and Things 3 course. Not sure if they’re worth it (they’re not cheap).
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Another longer TestFlight for this patch (I guess supporting a whole new OS would do that), but Omni’s making good on their promise to expand perspectives post 4.0.
- New “Has date in range” rule type enables filtering a perspective by assigned date range.
- New “Is repeating” rule enables filtering repeating tasks.
- New “Is project, group, or neither” rule type enables filtering for projects or groups.
- New “Is in single actions list” rule type enables filtering for items in single action lists.
Much closer to ‘how I think’ now.
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Thought I would post this here:
Fantastic video on OF4 dropped yesterday, courtesy of Mr Gallagher over at 58keys.
Well worth a watch to those who are considering OF, and would appreciate a brilliant overview.
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This came up in my feed today, but hadn’t watched yet. Thanks for the recommendation!
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I should NEVER have watched that video! Never! I’m now AUD200 poorer!
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How are we all feeling about OmniFocus 4 these days?
I’ve been on Things 3 for 4 years after a 10 year stint with OmniFocus, but Things is struggling with the weight of projects I have on the go at work and home. I’m missing the ability to hide the projects I don’t need to see. When I last tried OmniFocus 4 in December the UI felt a bit rough around the edges and the syncing especially to Apple Watch was a bit slow.
Mac and iPhone are in good shape. iPad with a Magic Keyboard attached has some glitches once in a while. I’ve reported them and I know that the Omni Group is working hard at eliminating them - it certainly has gotten better. Apple Watch sync has improved as they are leveraging the iPhone to help sync to Apple Watch in situations where WiFi to watch is spotty or slow. That’s the good thing about Omni Group - always listening to users. I’ve literally written a book on using Things, and Cultured Code’s support is excellent, but they are so opaque with communication and of course there is not a tool like OmniFocus out there that can scale.
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Thanks @bowsertune that is really good to hear, looks like I might be drifting back to OmniFocus.
The only thing I’m missing is a way to capture from ClickUp into OmniFocus. My team uses ClickUp and in Things I’m able to select the title of a task in ClickUp and from the services menu I can select ‘Add to Things’ and it will capture both the title and a link back to it. OmniFocus seems to only capture the title and not a link back to the original item. I might be mistaken but I’m sure there was a way to do this.
Hmm, I am aware of Clickup but I do not use it. I would write Clickup support to see if there is a natively supported way.
I think that service action’s still buggy; it works in Safari but not Chrome-based browsers. I sent it in to support; hopefully it’s looked at.
I’ve been pretty pleased with the improvements to OF 4 this year, especially stabilizing the watch, adding the new date-relative perspectives, and fixing some jank in quick add popups and outline scrolling.
Safari:
Chrome:
I was initially disappointed by OF4, but bought it anyway!
I moved back in completely after the update which allowed relative date queries in perspectives. I experimented and found I could build a completely convincing “Things to do” perspective which automatically “rolls over” unfinished tasks (has a defer date in the last 30 days, or is flagged, or has the “now” tag" or is due soon or is overdue) - I wish perspectives other than forecast would allow you to show calendar items, but otherwise I have what I most liked about Things with the power and flexibility of OF. It was a no brainer to move back in.
Sync has improved incrementally (but still not as fast as it should be, for me) and lots of loose edges have been smoothed. It’s way better than it was when it was released.
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@cornchip You are 100% correct, it seems to be just Chrome based browsers that it’s broken for. I run all of my work stuff out of Arc so I really need to be able to clip things effortlessly from GitLab, ClickUp and G Suite.
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