What are /r/omnifocus' favorite Products & Services?

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Every email in Gmail has its own URL, like "https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/1569b35cee4c09c3". If you click into a conversation in the Gmail web app and use the sharing extension from Safari to send the page to Omnifocus, you don't even have to copy/paste anything.

I don't know if the Gmail app on your iPhone will "capture" links to mail.google.com, but please let us know.

Todoist doesn’t support end-to-end encryption of your data, according to their security policy at https://todoist.com/security . This means it’s flat-out not usable in a lot of situations where OF is (such as for people working in healthcare or other regulated industries), and really creepy for anything else.

Other things OF has which various other apps lack, that don’t seem like they’re a big deal until you come to depend on them:

• Customizable perspectives. I can’t go back.
• Defer dates. Don’t even show me actions that I can’t complete yet.
• Repeat options like supporting both “X weeks after completion” and “X weeks after due”.

I really really really hope the OF4 UI is amazing so that I could quit getting tempted by prettier (but less capable) options. OF3 is the only app I’ve tried that supports all the features I use.

First off, congratulations!

Secondly, I take it from your explanation that you want (a) a more visual way to work with your system and (b) sharing and collaboration is a must.

In that case, one of the tools I recommend is Notion. It's very visual and allows you to work with other people on the same projects. Timeline views are possible (but limited on free plans) and it's very visual with many options to view and format data, bookmarks, images, etc.

One piece of advice: do not get lost in tinkering and tweaking mode! It's got a lot of options to display things just the way you want. But you're better off just diving in and getting started if this is a one-off project.

Even if this question is getting old... The question will never get old!

Depends what you call a task and what you cal la project, you should start by defining that first, it will then make more sense.
Get some inspiration from the GTD method, it will help too.
Check also our article on the subject, I'm sure it will help as well !
https://zenkit.com/en/blog/task-management-explained-4-approaches-for-a-balanced-workload/

I'm a bit late to this post, but could you give some example "user story" of how you use actually this workflow?

I see your setup, and you talk about your daily routine consisting of "Today" perspective, then "Waiting for...", etc. etc., but for a new user, can you actually share some workflows?

What do you do when you have a new "task". I mean, before you even delegate it a context/project/whatever... how do you get from from your brain into omnifocus?

Here's some example user stories that are more-or-less "real" that always seem to break my GTD habits once they build up too much and I go back to just winging it:

• I want to check out that CLI tool fzf and possibly include it in my workflow if I like it
• I have a new idea to build an app to do X (as in an hobby/idea/"someday", not a work assignment)
• I want actually start building that app idea I had the other day (still not "work", no "due" date)
• I've been needing to backup and reinstall home media server this week (multi-step project, not truly "due" in the "work" sense, since no harm if it never gets done, breaking down into individual steps itself takes at least some effort)
• add a new feature/improvement/bug-fix to some application for work (a task with no defined due date, but not "someday"... project already exists)... details of "feature" yet to be worked out and I'm busy now
• buy plane tickets for Christmas (when's it due? what's the context? How do I stop it from "slipping through"?)
• a bill that's due next week (so important), but there was an error in the billed, so you are "waiting" to hear back from them before you pay... how do I stop this from "slipping through", or how do I escalate to "time to stop waiting"?

wise woman, actually, but thank you.

but one good Mac app I forgot to mention that you have to buy, called Habits. it won't remind you of when to do a thing (or at least the version I have won't) but you can track how often you do a thing.

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/36142/habits

Check out mac app called Self Control.

It block your in/out-going network traffic for the amount of time that you've specified. It can work in both blacklist (only block websites/services that are on the list), or whitelist mode (only allow traffic from specified URLs, and block everything else).

This is not a particularly elegant solution, but I use a custom perspective that shows all remaining tasks sorted by when they were changed. If I scroll to the bottom of the list, I get a pretty good picture of tasks I have been neglecting or forgetting about.

https://www.screencast.com/t/cWxnPJnrV4N

I am an OmniFocus user myself, but The Hit List does a lot of things well. Granted, I haven't used it in years but it support nested projects, tags and actions. A killer feature is its ability to blow up an action to full screen and show a large note area, and is the biggest thing I miss in OmniFocus.

OmniFocus does have web access, so you can use it on other OS's. I can understand their choice te be focussed on Apple only. Porting Omnifocus to other platforms is not easy and they are a relatively small company I think. An Android version would be nice..

Todoist is great, it works on every platform and gives a lot of features, but if you need to change your workflow for an app it will not be easy. Also because Todoist works on every platform it does not work as consistent as native apps do. This is a problem with many apps that work on multiple platforms, especially on MacOS this means more friction in using it. I personally dislike the webbrowser interface Todoist uses on Windows and MacOS, on iOS the experience is great (better than Omnifocus).

I use Omnifocus to track my personal tasks and projects. I do have lists with tasks which my Spouse and I share. When we decide to work on stuff from these lists we talk about what each of us will do in which case I might log personal tasks in my lists.

You might consider TickTick https://ticktick.com/home. Looks a lot like Todoist but does have start dates and multi platform possibilities.