Your System - Functions and Apps That Fulfill Them

Posted by Paul Korm
Feb 8, 2019 at 12:37 AM

Beck, I think the visualization aspect of planning anything is more important than lists or checklists. I don’t use calendars, DropTask and OmniFocus 3 as a “system” or (ugh) “workflow”. I prefer to have an eidetic sense of the future. I suppose everyone does this. The future is a sort of gestalt comprising chunks of color, emotion, weight which I can identify with specific actions or personal plans, etc. Calendars are a 2d projection of this. I use Fantastical only because I have a number of Keyboard Maestro macros built for Fantastical that speed up entry on the calendar of specific kinds or colors of blocks. DropTask is fun because it provides various colorful views of actions that need attention — and, via a Google calendar that is shared between DropTask and Fantastical, I can add things to one app that show up in the other. OmniFocus 3 is just a necessary evil — the most boring software I’ve ever used. But, lists of words drive me to distraction, but I’d rather write things down and forget them then try to remember boring obligations. OF will poke me at the right time, otherwise it keeps quiet.

Beck wrote:
Paul Korm wrote:
>>3. Scheduling :: Fantastical 2 and DropTask (feeds Google ->
>>Fantastical)
>>4. Task Management :: OmniFocus 3 and DropTask
> >Paul, have you written (or can you say more) about how you use Drop Task
>in combo w/Fantastical & Omnifocus?
> >