How Nathan Snelgrove Uses OmniFocus

Full transcript and show notes at theomnishow.omnigroup.com

What could you get done if you stopped chasing the perfect productivity system and trusted your own instincts instead? Today, we hear from Nathan Snelgrove, the freelance designer and web developer behind Wildfire Studios. He has tried just about every task manager out there and keeps coming home to OmniFocus, the only one that feels to him like an outliner.

Nathan shares the client-folder setup he has used since OmniFocus 2, and why writing every step down lets him work at basically the speed of thought. He explains how dropping tasks helped him find the edges of what he can take on, and how the new planned dates keep a to-do from disappearing. He also makes the case for bringing your whole self to your work and staying involved in your own thinking, whether you lean on a task manager or not.

Some other people, places, and things mentioned:

• Nathan Snelgrove
• Nathan Snelgrove on Mastodon
• Nathan Snelgrove on Bluesky
• Wildfire Studios
• OmniFocus
• OmniOutliner
• Figma
• AC/DC
• Master of Puppets by Metallica
• University of Waterloo
• Jim Dalrymple / The Loop
• Shawn Blanc
• Getting Things Done (GTD)
• David Allen
• Things
• Casey Liss
• iA Writer
• Carl Pullein
• Goodfellas, directed by Martin Scorsese
• John Lennon
• The Omni Group