Pro users can also make the Today widget show whatever OmniFocus perspective they want, so you could make one that includes your blessed Forecast tag, but you’d still have the problem where you can’t see flagged tasks in Forecast, so you’d lose the ability to clearly indicate “today” with the flag in all places where you want to think about today. In the OmniFocus settings, you can define what “today” means - as far as the widget is concerned - in terms of due dates and deferred dates, as well as with the flag. So you definitely want the tasks in your OmniFocus widget to be the ones you need to know about today - it’s easy to see at a glance on all devices, and it’s also what shows up in the OmniFocus app on Apple Watch.
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The widgets that show up to the left of the home screen on iOS and in the right sidebar on the Mac are called “Today” widgets, and while that nomenclature isn’t super visible and might go away, that’s still a very useful place to gather information that’s relevant today from all your apps. There is another meaning of “Today” in OmniFocus, which is shared with the rest of the operating system in a useful way. Okay, fine, so use the tag for things you have to do today, and just toggle the flags when you have to think about them now. Adding a tag to Forecast is great for indicating you should consider a task today - because Forecast is the best place to see what’s going on today - but it can’t do what flags can do to tell you to look at something now. This creates a quandary: Flagging is better for indicating that a task is important now, but not as good for indicating that it’s important today. You can’t make the blessed tag that shows up in Forecast create a badge, nor can you make flagged tasks show up in Forecast (unless you add the blessed tag to them, too).
You can even make flagged tasks create a notification badge on the app, a level of urgency otherwise reserved for things that are due soon. The thing is, OmniFocus has also long had a concept of flagged tasks. The only clue is that its list of tasks shows up at the bottom of Forecast, which means it should probably have something to do with looking at these tasks today. Its name isn’t even prescribed you can call the tag whatever you want. The most interesting thing about the feature is that its use is not prescribed. The iOS app even has a handy shortcut for adding or removing the tag by swiping right on a task. They appear below the chronological ones, and you can reorder them in that view however you want. Selecting this blessed tag in Forecast allows you manually add more tasks to this view, even if they don’t have due dates. Forecast is the date-based view of your tasks, interspersing tasks with due dates with your calendar events, so you can see the landscape of what has to happen when. One of the most interesting features of the recently released OmniFocus 3 is the ability to pick one of your tags to show up as a list of tasks at the bottom of the Forecast perspective.
I am such a fanatic, and this is a blog post for my fellow parishioners in the Purple Church of Productivity. OmniFocus is a task manager for Apple devices that’s basically the productivity nerd equivalent of CrossFit, with all the fanaticism that entails.
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