Creating Flow with OmniFocus 3

by Kourosh Dini

Creating Flow with OmniFocus helps you to easily guide your work, play, and productivity throughout the days, weeks, and years using the strength of the premier task and project manager, OmniFocus. Creating Flow guides you from the basics to the most advanced uses one step at a time.

Creating Flow with OmniFocus 3 is a revamp from the previous editions in several ways.

The new edition incorporates the new features of OmniFocus 3 such as tags, a rework of custom perspectives, the Forecast tag, and more.

Creating Flow 3 was written to offer an “unfolding” approach. You don’t need to go through the whole text to have a working system. In fact, you could just get by with “Getting Started” and be up and running. But if you want to really crush it, you can always turn the page to keep enhancing your system into a more and more powerful machine.

Gradually, you can have large projects, like writing books and studying, sitting side-by-side with the routines of the day, all in a steady daily system.

Quite importantly, you can still create space in the day. Creating Flow is not about getting as much done in as little time as possible. Certainly, if you have not learned efficiency, Creating Flow will help you find it. More importantly, however, it is about clearing paths to develop what you find to be most meaningful, OmniFocus being a tool for that process.

Beyond simply describing the use of OmniFocus, Creating Flow integrates concepts from the eLit award-winning Workflow Mastery and Being Productive into a smooth, near self-sustaining system.

Genres: Productivity

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Published December 1, 2018

About the author

Writings

Kourosh Dini is the author of Creating Flow with OmniFocus: Mastering Productivity. As he is known to do many things, Kourosh has needed a tool and method by which he could wrangle it all. The book describes this process of wrangling in hopes that others will find such wranglings useful, too.

He has written Workflow Mastery: Building from the Basics which combines his thoughts on psychoanalysis, creativity, efficiency, and most importantly what it takes to develop mastery and meaningful work. The first edition, Workflow: Beyond Productivity, has won an eLit bronze medal in educational ebooks and a Quality, Excellence, Design Award.

He is also the author of Video Game Play and Addiction: A Guide for Parents, which helps parents navigate the benefits and potential detriments of video games and virtual spaces. The book has won a Mom’s Choice Award and a National Parenting Publication Award.

Education
Academics include Northwestern University as a part of the Integrated Science Program with a focus in the neurosciences. His medical degree and residency in adult psychiatry were obtained through the University of Illinois at Chicago. He pursued further studies in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Chicago. Kourosh also practices psychoanalysis having graduated from the Institute for Psychoanalysis, and maintains a private practice in Chicago involving therapy, meditation, and medication management.

Music
He has also played the piano since an early age, plays a synthesizer, pretends to play guitar, and whistles, usually in a garage or some other place with good resonance. He performs music weekly and has periodically spoken about meditation as Kourosh Eusebio in the virtual world of Second Life.

His blog, Musings on Mind, Music, and Technology, reflects his thoughts of this unique intersection as he continues a path of discovering mind and artistry through these media.

Reviews

[Jan Schaller · Rating 5 out of 5]

In the beginning I really didn't think much of the book. I considered myself an OmniFocus pro user and I didn't want to learn a whole new system and only hoped for some quick power user tricks. After about one third it dawned on me that this book has the potency to deeply alter how I use OmniFocus. So I reread large parts of it, try to better understand what Kourosh's philosophy is like, went back and forth and at some point it all made so much sense. I read the whole 1000 pages and consider my OF set-up now way better than before. I got from just ticking boxes to a productivity systems that really supports my work. Thank you, Kourosh!

Only downside is that at places the book feels a little unorganized as topic take turns I wouldn't expect. Still a five stars book (but only if you commit to read, understand and practice a thousand pages (Took me >4 months to get through it)!

[Fábio Fortkamp · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best books about productivity, that is also a software manual. Kourosh Dini combines masterfully his mix of being a productive person (physician, author, musician, family man) with this deeper experiences as a psychiatrist, filling the text with reflections on how we process our experiences. After all, don't we use task managers to feel more calm and organized? And should we *force* ourselves to work? Or we can use a powerful software like Omnifocus to organically create task lists and reminders?

I can tell you: after following this tips, I'm already feeling much more settled and calm, and at the same time I'm making visible progress in my projects.

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent book for users of OmniFocus interested in improving their productivity and effectiveness while maintaining their sanity.