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I may open source this baby later if anyone is interested, but at the moment the code and functionality is too 'personalized'. This view is read only and I don't intend to add functionality to it, this is intended for getting a birds eye view and refocusing. I've added some notes to the image above for further clarification. There are two sets of boards in the screenshot above:ġ) a set of boards labeled 'In focus' : all projects that contain task that is in progressĢ) a set of boards labeled 'All projects' which should be self explanatory I use OmniFocus and since there was little chance of such a view being added to it, I hacked my own together using ' rp-appscript', the css framework ' boilerplate and ruby. In an effort to bridge a gap between the pomodoro focus on today and GTD focus on everything, I've been looking at the kanban board. This is exciting to see all in one place. Since attending the GTD: The Roadmap seminar I've learned the value of vertical planning, but it's always been stored somewhere else. It's been mentally taxing to reverse engineer a folder hierarchy but I think it will be worth it. I'm also labeling them AF and G until I get more items into it and hopefully can distinguish the goals from the areas of focus more easily. You can see that I've got some blank spots in there that I'm trying to figure out still. I created an Area of Focus folder that contains individual projects and put that inside a Goal folder. But then I took a different approach to folders. I started with tasks then created a project around it. Then you assemble a project around that, then an area of focus, then a goal (it goes on from there) that you are trying to achieve. In GTD you should start on the 'runway'- the next actions that you can take. In this screen shot I've started something to that effect. One person wrote that they had been using it as a place for their vertical planning.

But I was curious about how others were using the folder hierarchy to sort their stuff.

Of course The David would say that it's probably because I haven't been doing the weekly review, and he'd be right. Lately I've been feeling overwhelmed by overdue items and that it just wasn't organized well. In OF you can create folders, which I had been using for basic collection (work, personal, school, etc) and keeping individual projects inside of it. On the left (out of shot) is another desk, part of the L-shape, and out of shot on the right is a three-drawer filing cabinet and Brother laser printer. They also have a shared clipboard for copying and pasting. It should take me no more than three hours to finish a piece.īy the way, both MacBook and iMac are linked via a nifty little utility called Teleport, which allows me to seamlessly control the iMac from my MacBook over the wifi network, and drag and drop files from one to the other. I decide the shape only when my outline is put into Pages on the iMac for “tickling” the final draft. When I’ve got the basic structure to a feature - usually around five or six sub-headings - I write quite quickly, and also in a non-sequential way. The way I work is to have on view as much research material as possible. Why can’t you simply use one computer at a time like the rest of us? Finally, on the right is my iPhone ready to take calls and show OmniFocus reminders, and my Moleskine notebook. This is where I knock out the structure and basic draft of my features, most of which are 1000-words plus. In the foreground is my MacBook Air 11.6 running OmniOutliner Pro.

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In the centre is my iMac running interview notes in DEVONthink Pro Office. On the left, iPad showing a press release in DEVONthink To Go.