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Hi, I’m Bill, a designer here at Omni.

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OmniFocus 2 has some new
symbols and icons

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that you might not have seen before.

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Let’s take a tour.

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The big one is Status Circles.

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Instead of a simple checkbox,

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a Status Circle can show you
many bits of information at once.

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It’s more than just
Remaining or Completed.

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It can also tell you
whether something is due soon,

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overdue,

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or flagged for special attention.

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When an item is due soon,

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the circle turns amber.

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When it’s overdue, the circle turns red,

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to alert you that it’s
something you might have missed.

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Right next to a Status Circle,

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you may notice
a little orange wedge appear

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when you hover over the action.

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If an action is high priority,

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but doesn’t have a real due date,

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you can click on this button
to flag the item

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and a Flag Indicator will appear.

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Flagging an item
also turns the Status Circle

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the same orange color as the flag,

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so all of your high attention items

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get brightly colored.

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What happens when an item has both

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a flag and an impending due date?

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The color splits

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to show the flag’s orange on the top,

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and the amber or red of the due date
on the bottom.

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There’s one more thing
a Status Circle can show

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and that’s if you have an action
scheduled to repeat.

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If so, the three dots of an ellipsis

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appear in the center of the circle,

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to show that it’s part
of an ongoing thing.

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When you edit
certain parts of an action,

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or check it off,

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You might think it would just disappear.

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It’s done, right?

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But just in case
you want to make any other changes,

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OmniFocus keeps it visible
until you switch Perspectives,

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and then automatically cleans things up.

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If you want to tell OmniFocus

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to get them out of the way right now,

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just click the Clean Up brush

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to tidy up your view of things.

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One more thing…

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Projects have three types,

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with jaunty little icons for each:

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Parallel projects consist of actions

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that can be done in any order,

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like errands you need to run
to prepare for a party.

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Sequential projects
require one action to be done

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before the next one becomes available,

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like making a house
that needs to have its foundation poured

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before you can start building
on top of it.

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A Single Action List contains actions

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that are not working toward
a finishable goal,

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like Cat Maintenance,
or Household Chores.

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Thanks for watching!

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If you have any questions, check out:

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…or give us a call. We’re here to help.