Right now, there's only a couple, but I have a Gary to-do list, which it's a someday-maybe list of things we want to do together. But so I do have, my son's name is Gary, and I do have a Gary folder in OmniFocus where I keep all my Gary projects. I read all the GTD books back in the day and all that. How do you handle tasks or projects as it relates to parenting and children? Any advice or tips or takes in that space? So excited about that, but I always love whenever somebody else is in parenting and OmniFocus, or GTD, or task management, love to ask this question. We're actually about to have our third kid. So I have to use this opportunity to ask a completely selfish question, wasn't in the scripted questions that I sent you, so here we go. So I keep all of my stuff in OmniFocus from work, but work stuff doesn't technically go into OmniFocus.Īll right. We do a lot of JIRA and Atlassian and Trello and that sort of stuff at work. It gets a little more complicated and I have a lot of automations and stuff that take care of things when it comes to work, because we don't obviously deal with OmniFocus at work. So I'm almost all in on OmniFocus, definitely all in for all of my personal stuff. And then I have two shared lists in Apple Reminders that I'm in with my wife, just the grocery list in a house to-do list. A few years ago I got married, had a kid and now I'm 95% in OmniFocus. Currently, my current setup, when I was a single man, let's go back a few years to back when I was a single man, everything went into OmniFocus, because that was my system, everything was in there. I go in and out of what I'm putting in there. Talk to me about the areas of focus that you have, or different spots in your life? How all encompassing is OmniFocus? Or is it just a particular slice of your life?ĭepends on what year it is really. I believe that kids are using the term OG these days. And honestly, not super uncommon for folks that we've had on the show before. I think I started, what was it? Early 2008, I think OmniFocus first came out?Īnd then late 2008, it came out on iPhone and I was in on day one on all of that. Me as well, Leo LaPorte and Merlin Mann, the screensavers and MacBreak Weekly. And he was heavily pushing OmniFocus in the early days, so I got into it by way of listening to him in other podcasts and shows. I literally had the rack on my desk with literally 43 folders in it and listened to a lot of Merlin Mann podcasts. I was a big 43 folders guy back in the day. And that led me down the road of found out about OmniOutliner eventually, started Kinkless GTD and then eventually, I guess in, I think it was late 2007-ish, the OmniFocus Beta came out and I started going down that road then.
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We did huge weddings and parties and stuff, and I was the uber-planner for that, and that got me into OmniPlan, actually, I was a Microsoft project guy before that, and then switched to Mac and got into OmniPlan back in the day. I've always been a computer geek and a productivity nerd from way back in my college days and my early New York career, I was a production manager for a large special event designer. How did you find yourself coming across to OmniFocus or the Omni Group back in the day? And here we are in Burbank, California.Įxcellent. I grew up in Virginia and moved to New York right out of college and did my thing there for a while and about, I guess, seven years ago, moved to Southern California to take on my current job. Talk to us about who you are, where you're from and where you find yourself these days. Jimmy, thanks so much for joining us and talking to us about your OmniFocus system. And in this episode, we're talking to Digital Media Product Manager, Jimmy Little. Welcome to another episode of the Omni show. And today we talk to Digital Media Product Manager, Jimmy Little on how he uses OmniFocus.
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