Using perspectives to store your OmniFocus window settings
You may find certain ways of setting up your OmniFocus window that are useful enough to make you want to come back to them again and again: your morning glance at what's due today, your weekly review, or your retrospective of what you've gotten done lately. With perspectives, you can save view settings and get back to them whenever you like.
OmniFocus comes with a few built-in perspectives that you can't edit, as a way to get back to a few basic states. In the Perspectives menu, they are:
Remaining Items — Everything you have left to do.
Due Items — Your remaining items grouped by due date.
Completed Items — All of the items you've already finished.
All Items — Everything ever. This may take a while to load.
To create a perspective:
Set up an OmniFocus window with the view mode, columns, focused items, sidebar selection, and view bar settings just the way you like them.
From the Perspectives menu, choose Show Perspectives Window.
Click the plus button at the bottom of the Perspectives window.
Type a name for your new perspective.
There are several ways to open a perspective:
Double-click the perspective's icon in the Perspectives window.
Choose the perspective from the Perspectives menu.
Choose Customize Toolbar from the View menu, and add the perspective to your toolbar as a button; then click it.
If you want to change an existing perspective, you can take a new snapshot:
Get a window looking the way you want (possibly by opening the existing perspective and then changing a couple of things here and there).
Select the perspective to overwrite in the Perspectives window.
Click the camera icon at the bottom of the Perspectives window: 
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. To edit a perspective's options, click the kinda arrowy-looking button at the bottom of the perspectives window: 
. You can choose whether the perspective should open in planning mode or context mode and whether the settings for both modes should be restored. The settings for whether to always open in a new window, for giving your perspective a keyboard shortcut, and for giving your perspective a custom icon are also here.
. You can choose whether the perspective should open in planning mode or context mode and whether the settings for both modes should be restored. The settings for whether to always open in a new window, for giving your perspective a keyboard shortcut, and for giving your perspective a custom icon are also here. To quickly print a perspective without even having to open it, click the printer button at the bottom of the Perspectives window: 
. If you trust that the settings are right and you don't even want to see the Print panel, Command-click the button to print right away. You may find this handy for dashing off a copy of your errands perspective onto some note cards before you run out the door, for instance.
. If you trust that the settings are right and you don't even want to see the Print panel, Command-click the button to print right away. You may find this handy for dashing off a copy of your errands perspective onto some note cards before you run out the door, for instance. To delete a perspective, select it and then click the minus button at the bottom of the Perspectives window.