This is a blog by Sven Fechner from Stuttgart, Germany - Principal Consultant for a global networking company. I am passionate about simplicity at work, in business and management, on my Mac and when it comes to personal productivity.
I fiddled around quite a bit with my perspectives in OmniFocus and at one point in time I had more than 15 perspectives, which was absolutely useless. Hence I took some time to bring it down to the minimum of perspectives I need. Here they are. I do not use "Flagged" and "Completed", but they are default perspectives of OmniFocus that you can not delete.
Omnifocus from the Omnigroup is known for being one of the most powerful GTD-like list managers. While simplicity oriented users have quite a challenge to reduce Omnifocus waste feature set for daily use, many, including pros, also struggle with the kind of old-fashion user interface. Other GTD apps such as Things or The Hit List definitely deliver a slicker and better user experience.
Omnifocus does not allow for a lot of customisation, and by far not enough to make it look more like "modern" Mac OS X applications, but recently the Omnigroup supplied their user base with a feature called themes. Themes are style definitions for the actual Omnifocus document which can be found in the application's preference. Since the theme options are somewhat limited, there has not been a lot of theme trading kicking off, but you can find some themes in this thread in the Omnifocus forum.
While I was in love with Things and recently The Hit List, I migrated back to Omnifocus recently for several reasons, which I'll cover in a different post. However, one thing kept nagging me: the user interface. While I did not find anything that pleased my eye only, I was still stuck with the nice design of The Hit List. That's why I have tried hard to create a THL inspired theme for Omnifocus.
Please download the theme here, remove the .txt ending and load it via the Omnifocus preference pane. It uses standard Mac OS X fonts and should consequently work fine for most users. Feel free to modify and enhance it to meet your needs. I'll be interested to see if someone else comes up with another pleasing Omnifocus theme.
Tip: Another tweak I used to optimise my Omnifocus experience is that I change the toolbar setting to use small text only and no icons. The result is also shown in the above screenshot.
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