A nagging notif is one that chimes every minute, for example.
This was discussed, and on the road map years ago.
Still on the roadmap?
My fav alternative app is Calalarm. A lot of people recommed Due. It would be nice to keep it all in OF!
I’m a big fan of using task-specific tools. For tracking my personal to-do list, I like OmniFocus. For time-specific stuff, I use Fantastical.* If I need a nagging reminder, I set a timer, and for Pomodoro-style work focus, I use Vitamin-R. I see the attraction of the Swiss Army Knife approach to putting as much as possible in one app. But I prefer to be as granular as possible, and ensure that integrations further the main purpose of the app.
Readers of a certain age might not be surprised to know that I used mh as my email back in my Unix days.
From a GTD perspective, I’d say that if you need a notification that chimes every minute, you need to assess whether you are actually committed to doing that task, and if so, figure out what is preventing you from doing it. After all, one of the fundamental tenets of GTD is that any task that can be done in less than 2 minutes should just be done, rather than entered into the system or moved out of the inbox, unless there are extenuating circumstances in which you really don’t have 2 minutes for the task.
*I use Fantastical partly for the features, but mostly because I keep my work calendar on Outlook/Office365. If I wanted to use the native iOS calendar with that, I’d have to grant my work IT department invasive access to my phone and iPad. Fantastical lets me connect to my work calendar without granting full OS access.
I don’t understand your desire for nagging by an app. Could you give me a few specific examples of tasks where nagging every minute is important to you?
Persistent reminders are particularly helpful to people with Inattentive ADHD, for tasks which need to happen on schedule such as taking daily medications. I certainly understand the value for those who struggle with this!
That said, in the last decade or so Apple removed the ability to provide reliable notifications from a background app on the devices where persistent reminders would be most useful (your watch and phone), so apps which used to provide this reliably (such as Due) are no longer able to be quite so reliable—and OmniFocus would run into the same issue that they do.
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Due has been pretty reliable for me.
Another related feature that due implements is that of enabling “critical” notificiations on iOS. These are capable of breaking through your focus mode, and they play a sound even if the phone is muted.
It would be fantastic if OmniFocus could allow us to enable that on a task.
I believe this feature should have been implemented into OF since the introduction of critical alerts. I really feel the lack of it.
My personal experience with Due is that it is still quite reliable for what I ask it to do. I believe that as long as an app is opened relatively recently, it can still send a number of notifications before it gets throttled.
I think this would be a genuinely nice feature addition to at least have parity with Due.
