OmniFocus is a great place to store well-defined projects and actions in a highly-structured way but isn’t generally the best place to house things like project support materials, reference information, and that random (and brilliant) idea that you had while out walking the dog earlier today.
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Notion can be a great complement to OmniFocus. It’s essentially a blank canvas that can be used to store a wide variety of information, everything from free-form notes from your brainstorming session to a detailed database of feature requests that you’ve received from your clients.
OmniFocus is the long-time powerhouse GTD app for the Mac, and it’s what I used from 2008-ish to 2019. It’s very full-featured, even including robust AppleScript support on the Mac. Although originally designed to work well with GTD (it was spun off from people using OmniOutliner as a GTD tool), it has recently divested itself a bit, e.g. OmniFocus is a powerful tool designed to follow David Allen’s Getting Things Done. I go into the details of GTD here but the simple version is that it’s a method of getting things out of your mind and into a trusted organizational system. The main purpose is to free up your mind to have ideas, not hold them. The Basics of GTD in OmniFocus Getting Things Done, or GTD, is a popular productivity methodology imagined and realized by David Allen. GTD is a way to manage everything from your day to day stu! To those dreams you don’t yet know how to accomplish. This manual intends to explore the im. Tasks around the house, career goals, things to buy—anything you can turn into a command to follow or action to do. It was originally designed without a software component in mind—manila folders, actually! GTD® is a great system, but with OmniFocus, it can be even better. You can also read the original GTD.
You can use Notion to house your personal information (e.g. your purpose in life and aspirations spanning years) and it can be used to share information and keep a team on track (e.g. as an internal wiki and as a place to share quarterly goals). The number of use cases is limited only by your imagination!
It’s easy to reference anything you have stored in Notion from OmniFocus projects and actions. Simply choose “Copy Link…” from the “…” menu and paste the link into the note field of the related OmniFocus project or action.
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For example, if you have a page in Notion that contains ideas for your blog post, you could create a repeating “Review: blog ideas” action in OmniFocus that shows up on your radar every week. If you decide to go ahead and write one of these posts, you could create a “Write: blog post about…” to OmniFocus and include a link to the notes about this blog post that you’ve captured in Notion. OmniFocus prompts you to take action and Notion contains the information you need to move forward.