I’ll admit that I was initially skeptical. My friend and extreme productivity guru Dr Jason Downs listened to my whingeing and suggested Omnifocus2. Two valued staff members left within a couple of months and I temporarily added their work to my already over burdened to-do list. I’ve been coping using this simple pen and paper method (just), but in January I hit crisis point. I think I’m pretty good at working multiple projects with complex dependencies, but moving into a management role at ANU has pushed me to my limit.įor years I’ve been using a simple to-do list system based on Cal Newport’s “How to be a straight A student”. My background in architecture offices has given me a range of time and project management skills that are helpful in my second career as an academic. It’s also hard to explain. If you’re nonetheless instinctively curious about it, you should read this great introduction offered by the Thesis Whisperer: It took me well over a year to get to grips with it. At this point, I struggle to imagine how I could work without it, as I’m so utterly reliant on it to transform the hyperactive clutter within my mind into an ordered archive outside of it. I’ve been a devoted user of Omnifocus for going on five years.
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