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iBooks on the iPad offers the ability to enlarge images when viewed in ePub files.
Unfortunately this is not available yet in the openmargin app.
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John Cleese describes, in a fascinating talk,
Saw this a few years ago while doing research for my thesis and has changed my thinking about creative processes since. Especially the idea of the two modes: open and closed really resonated with me. Wish I could annotate that video! Go and see it.
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holds up to our own understanding and organization of our lives that can be rather daunting.
(shame the excerpt is spread across two pages so I couldn't select it fully)
Great insight. When something appears complex, it isn't necessarily that thing that's complex, but our understanding may be lacking. Complexity is in the eye of the beholder. Something like that? :)
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If I can give one piece of advice towards finding use from the program it would be to make sure to include enjoyable projects and tasks.
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In practicing a workflow with a goal of working it into intrinsic memory
Whenever you repeatedly do the same thing you're training yourself to do that even more. This holds true for both positive -and- negative things.
I spend a lot of time behind my computer, probably too much (although how do you determine that?), which is why I try to use applications that force me to work in a certain way I would like to work instead of how I actually work.
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It is good practice to make sure that all data, not just that of OmniFocus, has a regular back up.
Note to self: still need to set up an offsite backup solution in addition to TimeCapsule and Dropbox.
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“Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.”
- Gustave Flaubert3
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Toggle parallel to sequential by clicking the icon in the group heading “DayCare”.
Apparently no keyboard shortcut is available for this.
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An excellent article by Merlin Mann of 43Folders suggests writing tasks as if you were delegating them to your future self.
Although the blog 43Folders is run by Merlin Mann this particular post seems to be written by Ethan Schoonover, coincidentally the head of marketing at the Omnipresent Group, makers of OmniFocus. #errata
Edit: Looks like my annotation broke the link. #bug. Here's the URL: http://www.43folders.com/2007/09/24/dear-me-get-work
( #idea: turn URLs in notes into tappable links )
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Write as if you are delegating to your future self.
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If you notice yourself coming across a task that you just do not want to do, ask yourself with as much honesty as possible, “why not?” Wrong contexts, changes of plans, a task not broken down to small enough pieces, suddenly realizing a required condition for the task, etc. can all be possible answers. These answers then lead to adjusting the task’s placement so it is more appropriate to your workflow.
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The Art of Learning
#bug Last page is shown twice.
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Having an inbox at-the-ready solves this problem. Whenever a thought appears, it can be entered. Only enough needs to be written to jog the memory later when ready to process.
Pro tip: when it comes to ideas and inspiration I find it useful to describe the origin of the inspiration as well as I might not understand my note afterwards without it. ( writing down the origin of the inspiration actually helps me get inspired again )
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The iPad is a recent addition to the OmniFocus product suite.
Not a big fan of its design. (I'm referring to the app, not the device.)
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Select the “Map” option on the main menu screen:
#bug: Image doesn't work.
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Any site may be added. If, for example, you tend to use Facebook a lot, consider creating a Facebook context as a subset of Online where tasks that come to mind can be placed.
Note to self: Add contexts for Beta List Admin, Google Analytics and more(?)
#bug: The highlight in the reading view doesn't match the actual excerpt.
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Website Administration - Useful for batching tasks that need to be done on my own websites.
Shouldn't these kind of things be projects?
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Read/Review - Useful for designating sites that need to be read.
Instapaper integration would be nice here. ( I'm really hoping OmniFocus will include an API at some point. )
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In Silence - Usually reserved for the task of meditation. It is useful in that I can be anywhere as long as things are generally quiet.
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While Planning Mode is largely our realm of preparation and design of goals, Context Mode is our area of work and carrying out the tasks.
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Some use them more as responsibilities, motivations, or even priority states. Some find different mindsets such as At Leisure or At Work work well for yet others.
What about kinds of mind states such as 'creative', 'organizing', 'distracted'. Doing taxes for example would be part of the 'organizing'-context, a random email the 'distracted'-context and revising a logo design in 'creative'. The added benefit of this approach is that you can batch tasks that have a high tendency to distract you (e.g. when answering an email unread messages in your inbox will distract you from doing your next task, so why not schedule these kind of distraction-risky tasks when you feel distracted anyway?)
I haven't tried this yet myself, but will do and report on my experience.
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Changing contexts not only takes time, it can also break attention. Running through a context list becomes, in a way, a directly workable project itself that can be done in one place and in one sitting.
For me changing projects breaks attention as well, maybe even more. It depends of course on the kind of projects (all part of an overarching project?) and the kind of contexts (e.g. all on the computer vs. needing to move between physical locations).
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•Interim or incubated states such as Waiting for ... or Someday/Maybe. These are states of existence that are presently not actionable.
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Shift-Command-i.
Shortcut for Inspector.
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Command-k
Shortcut for Clean Up.
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When the Control-Command combination is held, typing Up or Down will move the task in that direction along its hierarchical line.
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To further remove tasks, we can set the filter to only display the purple or “Next Action” tasks. A Next Action task is the first available task in a project.
Do people actually do this? Will give it a shot myself.
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Shift-Command-v.
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The URL isn't clickable anymore.
