I’ll start by showing how the OmniGroup taking care of this, and then move on to our other three. Now let’s move on and take a look at our four Mail capturing workflows. Getting Stuff From Mail to OmniFocus for iPad Doing away with having to search inside the Mail app or linking. And now not only will you be reminded to take action on a task - but be able to also look-up reference information for your task in the same place. So – this is why these four Mail workflows are important - because they help to place all your information together, creating one informative Action. While another is to treat the Mail inbox as a filing cabinet. One popular workflow is to send your files to Evernote and linking to it. If you need to look up related information for a task send as a file attachment you have to go outside the App. Why? Because it’s not an option directly supported on iOS. Some of these capturing options include the Camera app, Voice Record, Dictation, and Siri ( which was introduced by way of the Omni Sync Server and the Reminders app in iOS 6).īUT - if an Action needs to be started from a file attachment ( e.g., a PDF) you’ll need to find a way to get it to the OmniFocus inbox. In general, as an already well-developed task management app OmniFocus for iPad has great methods for capturing stuff in the inbox that users can make “Actionable”. Let’s begin by briefly looking over the default capturing schemes on the app to help answer the question: “ W hy is sending email and file attachments to a task management system important?”
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How to send email and file attachments ( like a PDF) to the app’s trusty bucket - the inbox.Īn important task that can be done much easier on the Mac version of this app, but not at all impossible while working mobile on the iPad.This essential topic is geared to show users of this iOS productivity app. So, in this post I’ll be sharing the four capturing workflows I use for getting stuff from iOS Mail - to OmniFocus for iPad. For some time now I’ve been wanting to write a post about “how I use OmniFocus for iPad in an iPad-only routine.” OmniFocus for iPad is the task management app that continues to be one of my top picks in the iOS productivity category.
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