Omnifocus GTD power tip – reviewing Stalled projects quickly
Omnifocus is great GTD app, but with any app that leads the way with new features, it has bugs. If you use the Review functions in Omnifocus, you know what I mean – they’re more powerful than any other GTD app, but have idiosyncrasies that you need to learn to manage.
The Stalled filter is one of those features. It shows you projects that can’t proceed, either because the next possible action is a Waiting action, or simply don’t have an action. This makes reviews really fast! The problem is that as soon as you add an action, the project is no longer stalled, so it disappears before you’ve had a chance to actually type the action!
Fortunately, Omni provides great support. They taught me a trick that solves this and helps make my weekly reviews much faster! Kudos to Kris at Omni support! Here’s his response to me.
I’ve got a suggested work-around for Reviewing Stalled projects: First, set the sidebar filter to “Stalled”. As you review the projects and wish to add new actions to the stalled projects, simply call up the Quick Entry window and add the actions there.
I have my Clean Up Preferences (in Data Preferences) set to “Clean up Inbox items which have: Both a Project and a Context”. This way, the Stalled projects remain in view when I’m entering new actions into the Quick Entry and assigning them to the Stalled project — those new actions remain in the Inbox (assigned to the Stalled project) until I add a Context. After I’ve fully reviewed the Stalled Projects, I return to the inbox and assign the proper Contexts for each action, et voila!
Does that help? If not, or if you have any other questions or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to contact me. We really appreciate your support!
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