![]() ![]() Ken showed us an example of a task he added, "Go to GameStop to buy a game," and had associated a place name of "Gamestop" to that task. Not only can you associate a latitude and longitude with a new task (and attach photos using the iPhone's camera) you can sort and prioritize your outstanding tasks by their proximity to your current location. ![]() Ken showed us how the new Core Location feature of the iPhone can help you complete and associate geocoded information with your tasks. Tasks can be associated with various contexts that relate to situations, people, or things that are required for completion. While viewing this task, it's a simple one-button operation to complete the task and start the phone call. While traveling on Sunday, you might see that you have a single task due today. Imagine making a task to remember to call your father for Father's Day and associating that with an address book entry for your Dad. Where the iPhone version of OmniFocus really shines, however, is its tight integration with the iPhone's core-competencies such as location awareness, telecommunications, and contacts. This means that new tasks added on your iPhone will be waiting for you on your desktop when you get home, and when you complete a task on your desktop, it'll be reflected as such on your iPhone. The team at Omni has built in exciting syncing options that allow changes to your tasks on desktop or iPhone to propagate up and down to each device on regular basis (or manually) via a number of avenues (.Mac, WebDAV, and ostensibly MobileMe). That being said, OmniFocus for the iPhone becomes a much more valuable purchase when you use it on your desktop computer as well. Cajoled into creating OmniFocus by its loyal followers from the moment an idea for such a product was mentioned on the company blog in mid-2006, the trajectory of the desktop version of the application has exploded and become one of the premiere and most feature-complete GTD-style applications on OS X. One of the biggest, and newest, players in this space is long-time Mac developer house, OmniGroup. With this organizational revolution, a slew of software developers have sought to apply these techniques to the desktop and more and more often, the handheld computer. In short, GTD-style applications encourage the creation of granularized tasks that are organized by different contexts-date, person, or location to name a few-and allow the user of said software to defer, re-prioritize, and mark those tasks as complete. New techniques, like those found in David Allen's eponymous book, Getting Things Done, have ignited the executive world and eventually trickled down into the common Internet user's daily routine. Fortunately, with the never-ending march of innovation, thinkers and computer software developers have finally created the solution we've been collectively waiting the past 100,000 years for: the handheld personal organizer.Īll facetiousness aside, there has undoubtedly been a revolution in the way the modern man gets his daily tasks accomplished over the past five years. Since the beginning of time, humans have struggled with the problem of getting things done. ![]()
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