When you’re working in contexts, you’re looking at tasks related to the mode you’re in—so when you’re ready to sit down and make some calls, you just tap the Phone context in your OmniFocus document in order to see all the phone-related tasks you have. Once your actions have contexts assigned, you can selectively view your actions by context, to see just the ones that are actually available to you wherever you are now.

Thanks to iPhoneʼs location awareness, OmniFocus can help you decide what to do next based on where you are. When you tap the Nearby Contexts button, OmniFocus shows you the available actions that are closest to you. For instance, if you’re out buying groceries, OmniFocus can show you the closest grocery store and create an instant shopping list.

The top-level screen is your starting point for using OmniFocus—you can always get back to it by tapping the Home button in the lower-left of the screen. Here you can access your inbox, where you enter new items as you think of them; your projects and contexts; items which are due soon; overdue items; and items you have marked with a flag.

OmniFocus for iPhone’s Search function filters your main outline down to items that contain a certain string of text. As you type in the search field, items that don’t match disappear dynamically. You can search based on action names, context names, or project names.When you’re done, click the clear button on the right side of the field and everything reappears.

The inbox is where you can quickly add items as you think of them. It’s designed to be a kind of catch-all for everything that’s on your mind, and you can store items in your inbox until you’re ready to process and categorize them. To add a new item, just tap the New Inbox Item button in the toolbar, type whatever’s on your mind, tap Save, and you’re done.