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It wasn’t until a few weeks ago that I realized I’ve been using OmniFocus all wrong ever since the Forecast View came to the Mac<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Forecast View is awesome. But it’s not where your daily to-do list should live.<\/p>\n

I don’t know about you, but if I look at my to-do list, it is mostly things which I want<\/em> to do today. Only one or two (at best) are things which actually have a hard and fast due date of today and need to be done.<\/p>\n

By living in the Forecast View, I’ve slowly developed the habit of setting the items which I want to get done as being due today. Or, if I know I can’t get to it today then I’ll set it to be due tomorrow or the next day. Seems natural and logical when your in the middle of it, but it’s actually not the best way to go about things.<\/p>\n

My usage of Due dates and the Forecast View mirror Chris Bowler’s<\/a> exactly. In his weekly members-only newsletter, Chris recently wrote:<\/p>\n

\n I was a heavy user of due dates, but the reality was these dates were fictitious. It was more a case of when I\u2019d like this task to be done or worked on. This could be a problem as some tasks truly were due on a specific day, but they would be mixed in with other tasks in the Forecast view that were more wishful thinking than anything else.<\/p>\n

I was able to get by with this usage for a couple of years. My habit was to simply push out the due dates when things got crazy and desired tasks did not get done when I had hoped.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Same here. Fortunately, Chris pointed me to Sven Fechner’s<\/a> excellent<\/em> OmniFocus Perspectives Redux series, which is helping set me straight with a much more logical — and honestly, a much less stressful — way of managing my daily task list.<\/p>\n

Check out:<\/p>\n