I’ve been looking through my OmniFocus now and can tell you that I have 2,513 things to do and they’re arranged in 88 projects. If checking OmniFocus were a quick thing, as it is built to be, as it is intended to be, then two minutes checking that while I boil the kettle will help my day astonishingly. When you have a lot on and some of it is pressing at you terribly, you go straight to the keys and you start working on that. A very sensible thing to do is look at it first thing in the morning, for instance, and that’s where I go wrong. You shouldn’t have your head in OmniFocus all day but you really should look at it from time to time. The reason is that lately there has been so much in OmniFocus – I have added so much – that I’ve stopped checking it. I refer you to the steaming mess of Evernote above. Time to review everything and chuck out what I don’t want to do, what I am not going to get to.Īnd the reason to do it is not that I’m some kind of OCD-based guy who needs everything in its place. One bad project gone, one new one in, two new ones looming and most things churning over, it is time to apply that ability to say no.
I’ve walked away from a thing and am feeling so good about it that I think might even start to enjoy saying no. Plus one big change at the end of 2014 meant a thing I do that has been albatross-shaped is pretty much entirely gone. I have two meetings this month that should lead to one enormous project and one gigantically enormous series of projects.
But one big new project came in December and is hopefully continuing for a long time. This is my rather beloved to do app and I put my ability to cope with lots of projects entirely down to this software. Whereas I’m starting over with OmniFocus.
But it does have good search, I am not sunk, it can wait another day. My Evernote is a steaming mess of about 4,000 notes with 800 of them in the inbox and if it weren’t for the software’s very good search feature, I’d be regularly sunk. And like all decluttering, I already know which of it I’m going to put off.
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