I am new to Omnifocus and struggling with the time. I can create a custom perspective to filter by time so I can see all my tasks that are 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, etc.
However, if I am in any of custom perspectives can I add the duration to the “left panel” under the tags so I can filter by context and time? As a GTD user this is kind of an important detail. Sometimes I am in my accounting software but only have 15 minutes so I want to filter by both context and time to reduce the decision making on which next action to perform…
On the Mac, if you set Group and sort to Individuals Actions and reveal the sidebar, you can filter by a tag simply by clicking on the tag. This would allow you to, for example, view all available actions that take 15 minutes or less and are tagged with “QuickBooks”.
OmniFocus 3 for iPhone and iPad don’t support the sidebar, but sidebar support is coming in OmniFocus 4.
I guess I need to just get used to thinking about things a bit different in OmniFocus. In my prior tool I would sort by my area of responsibility first so if I wanted to narrow down to business focus today I would do that and could filter by time after that. I guess in OF method I have to filter by time first and after that can select either a project or tag to further narrow it down
Exactly. You could also have a perspective that filters both on the duration and the time (e.g. one that shows available actions tagged “phone” that are 15 minutes or less).