Processing email with OmniFocus Screencast

February 14th, 2008

Posted by marc

Integrating OmniFocus and Mail.app makes a much better email experience. By using smart folders along with OmniFocus’s “clippings” I can accomplish Inbox Zero most of the time.

I’ve shared my email work flow with a few people already and they also seem to like it, so I decided to make a short screencast demoing what I do. Like I mention in the screencast, most of my workflow is totally ripped off from people like Merlin Mann so check out that site for more email ninja goodness.

DOWNLOAD SCREENCAST (4.8M, 4:16)

Here’s some links related to the screencast: [OmniFocus] [Mail.app] [iGTD] [MailTags]

6 Responses Follows

  1. Christian says
    on February 14th, 2008 at 07:01 PM

    This is brilliant! Good work.

  2. Nusku says
    on March 2nd, 2008 at 08:14 AM

    Excellent. I’m going to give it a go.

  3. Jacob says
    on April 1st, 2008 at 07:53 PM

    Thank you for sharing this, it is a very nice presentation, very professional.

  4. Matt says
    on July 11th, 2008 at 02:03 AM

    Great stuff, but what happens if Mail thinks you “read” a message when actually you got interrupted or otherwise didn’t deal with it? It seems like the @inbox smart mailbox is then going to lose the message.

  5. marc says
    on July 12th, 2008 at 02:47 AM

    As long as you don’t click off the @inbox mailbox, mail will keep the message in there. So basically once I’m doing processing @inbox, I click on another mailbox and then click back on it to clear it out.

  6. Ben says
    on February 13th, 2009 at 08:03 AM

    I have been experimenting with Mail rules in OF also. I like it, but why can’t it keep attachments like the clip-o-tron can?


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