Creating Tasks from Email

Email is the most likely place for stuff to overwhelm you. This section explains your option(s) for triaging emails. Use the method(s) you like best.

Creating Tasks from Email

Task managers have different ways of converting emails to tasks. See which of these are available for your tool(s): Send email to task list. (Recommended.) This is popular for online task managers, and it works from any email app. Tasks are created with all...

Recurring tasks

Recurring tasks which will take 30 minutes or more can simply be created as a recurring appointment in your calendar. Otherwise, you can make the task repeat in Omnifocus. To repeat tasks in Omnifocus Click task. Click inspector sidebar (upper right). Set your...

Next Actions

Enter the very next action in the task name, after the project name, like this:       Project – Next Action       Fire insurance – call Thomas for quote (555-6765) Only record the very next action...

TRO Projects

Record both the project and the very next action in the task title, separated by a hyphen, like this:       Project name / Next Action       Cat shots / Call vet 555-1234...