How, after almost twenty years with the same app, does a productivity system become so natural you don’t even think about it? Today, we hear from Dr. Mark Carrigan, Associate Dean for Digital Education and Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Manchester, who credits OmniFocus with turning the hyperactive clutter inside his mind into an ordered archive outside of it.
Mark shares why writing every idea down gave him a sense of ownership over his own creativity, and how recurring inbox items eventually became published books. He explains why he keeps his setup deliberately light with two contexts and about fifteen projects. He also makes the case for knowing what OmniFocus isn’t for, including the writing he now blocks out on a calendar instead, and why the inbox is the one part of the system he’ll never skip.
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