# How Jonathan Sorum Uses OmniFocus

## Metadata
- Author: [[The Omni Show]]
- Full Title: How Jonathan Sorum Uses OmniFocus
- Category: #podcasts
- URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/012e6792-f60f-4446-83e8-55261220764e
## Highlights
- Episode AI notes
1. Adopt different perspectives to improve focus on objectives and the bigger picture.
2. Weekly planning with checklists is crucial, with perspectives being the top priority and checklists ranking second.
3. Utilize repeating checklists for daily organization, including a weekly planning checklist to anticipate and handle unexpected events. ([Time 0:00:00](https://share.snipd.com/episode-takeaways/aaadaa51-c1d5-4e19-964e-aa603d30bf5c))
- Perspectives and Checklists for Effective Management
Summary:
By adopting different perspectives, such as seeing oneself as a manager instead of a doer, individuals can better focus on objectives and the bigger picture while directing work.
Weekly planning with checklists is crucial, with perspectives being the top priority and checklists ranking second. The 'Checklist Manifesto' is recommended as a resource.
Repeating checklists are essential for daily organization, including a weekly planning checklist to anticipate and handle unexpected events that may derail plans.
Transcript:
Speaker 1
But if you're able to actually use perspectives as a way to take on the manager role of yourself, see yourself as a manager versus a doer, you can use analogy like an officer versus a soldier. There's one role where you're actually looking at, okay, what are the objectives, the bigger picture, and sort of like directing the work. And the other part is like, we're just doing it now. So perspectives allow you to think about that. And also weekly planning goes into that, having a checklist, because checklists is my number two. So perspectives and number one, and checklist, it's number two. And actually, I don't know if I have it around. Yeah, this is actually a very good book on that topic. This one that checklist manifesto, very good. I can highly recommend that. Anyone who's worked with OmniFocus, for say more than a year, will start discovering some of these things on their own. Like checklist, they run my life. So I probably have nine or so repeating checklist. I have a weekly one for my weekly planning, either on Sunday or Monday. And that's the fail safe. So you have a plan for what's going to happen through the week. And then reality comes, and there's always a collision point. And sure, not everything is going to get done. That's that's the nature of the universe. It doesn't care much for your planning. ([Time 0:23:04](https://share.snipd.com/snip/6cb47259-891f-41d3-b221-7bd62e2b98d8))