![]() You need to be proactive not to neglect the activities that are important but not urgent, since they will not demand your attention. Something is Important when it contributes to your medium and long term goals, to your life purpose. The trap is that many of them are easy, or funny, or popular, but they are unimportant. ![]() Urgent stuff catch your attention and pressure you. Something is urgent when it requires immediate attention. Covey popularized the Eisenhower’s Time Management Matrix in his book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, stating that we live a fourth generation of time management, more effective, in which managing time itself is no longer the aim, but managing where to focus at any particular time. He said, rightly, that we are too inclined to focus on the things that are both important and urgent, generating a reactive behavior based on what has to be done right now, instead of focusing on the things that are important and not urgent, which would be the basis of a more strategic behavior based on long-term goals. Eisenhower, thirty-fourth president of the U.S., thought that we should devote attention and time to our activities in accordance with their importance and urgency. I’ll take a look on the solutions you guys name, I heard of Moon and Keyboard Maestro but never felt I really needed them.Īnd yes I do believe that having that kind of visual feedback would be a pretty good addition to OF, in the same way having a Trello-like board in my office helps me stay current on where I am, what I accomplished so far and what’s needed to be done next.Dwight D. Hey, I do have a trusty laptop with Qubes OS as my main privacy-oriented OS and run GNU+Linux everywhere else (I even have a FreeBSD NAS), but by switching to Apple-based systems I can say I fulfilled like the 90% of that initial goal, which is absolutely amazing – no fanboy-ism here, just my personal experience. You’ll see, when I jumped wagon to the Apple universe after years of running GNU+Linux everywhere, one of my main goals was to stop expending time on hacking my way around almost everything and free myself to actually do stuff I wanted to do. Thank you so much for stepping in with your great ideas to hack on my workflow. What I would really love to have in OmniFocus 3 is a visual representation of the so-called Eisenhower Matrix as seen in Focus Matrix and similar apps while I was able to hack something in the line with OmniFocus contexts, it’s not the same as having a visual feedback of what’s going on: Good thing is that being OmniFocus 3 around the corner is a great relief as I believe the new tags system will solve a lot of similar shortcomings. This comes of course with a big drawback: in OmniFocus 2 you can only assign one context to each task, following the GTD principle - so, for example, I’m unable to prioritize my stuff depending on the context I’ll be doing it. This workflow soon proved to be quite inefficient so eventually I ditched out FM in favor a contexts system based on the Eisenhower Matrix: Then I started using OF so Focus Matrix was kind of relegated for only the visual representation of the tasks priorities, while all the heavy lifting was made with OmniFocus. ![]() Long before start using OmniFocus I used to use Focus Matrix, which is a neat software package that leverages the Eisenhower Decision Principle. I’m huge fan of the Eisenhower Matrix since it helps me quickly prioritize my stuff and, maybe even better, find out at a glance where I’m standing when looking at the matrix. (I already searched for any related topic but all I found was five topics talking about the Eisenhower Matrix but not specifically about it) ![]()
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