{"id":8282,"date":"2014-01-05T19:50:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T00:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8282"},"modified":"2014-01-05T19:50:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T00:50:15","slug":"omnifocus-for-people-who-work-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/05\/omnifocus-for-people-who-work-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"OmniFocus for People Who Work From Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tyler.io\/2013\/02\/omnifocus-work-from-home\/\">Tyler Hall<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tyler.io\/2013\/02\/omnifocus-work-from-home\/\">\n<p>Practically speaking, this means I&rsquo;ve gotten rid of my <em>Home<\/em>, <em>Work<\/em>, and <em>Phone<\/em> contexts and replaced them instead with labels that borrow traits from Allen&rsquo;s &ldquo;Time available&rdquo; and &ldquo;Energy available&rdquo; criteria.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Replacing due dates with start dates has dramatically increased how often I add something to my inbox. I used to worry about adding trivial small reminders because I didn&rsquo;t want them clogging up my task list. But now that I&rsquo;ve discovered the power of start dates, I throw everything in there with a start date, knowing it won&rsquo;t appear until I can actually do something about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I use start dates far more than due dates, and I set my contexts to only show Available actions. This reduces the number actions shown for each context, so it is actually possible to get to &ldquo;Context Zero.&rdquo; As a result, when looking at a context, I assume that the actions need to be done soon. I rarely need due dates, so when the Forecast does turn orange or red, I know it&rsquo;s something important.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Hall: Practically speaking, this means I&rsquo;ve gotten rid of my Home, Work, and Phone contexts and replaced them instead with labels that borrow traits from Allen&rsquo;s &ldquo;Time available&rdquo; and &ldquo;Energy available&rdquo; criteria. [&#8230;] Replacing due dates with start dates has dramatically increased how often I add something to my inbox. I used to worry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[708,30,32,526],"class_list":["post-8282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-getting-things-done","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-omnifocus"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}