Creating Flow with OmniFocus helps you to easily guide your work, play, and productivity throughout the days, weeks, and years using the strength of the task and project manager, OmniFocus. Creating Flow guides you from the basics to the most advanced uses one step at a time.
The second edition streamlines and builds upon the ideas of the original. Beyond simply describing the use of Omnifocus, Creating Flow integrates concepts from the eLit award-winning Workflow Mastery: Building from the Basics into a smooth, near self-sustaining system.
The first half helps a user build a central dashboard around which many tasks and projects can be guided. The latter half builds upon the system not only for various daily uses but for developing mastery in chosen endeavors. Large projects such as writing books, studying for courses, developing skill sets, and more can be integrated into a ready system of daily work.
Further, and quite importantly, the user can still create space in the day. Creating Flow is not about getting as much done in as little time as possible. Certainly, if you have not learned efficiency, Creating Flow will help you form it. More importantly, however, it is about clearing paths to develop what you find to be most meaningful, OmniFocus being a tool for that process.
Creating Flow offers a steady pace to learn OmniFocus. Each step builds upon the last with ready links to return to previous steps.
Clearing paths to develop meaningful work and mastery is not simple. But we can develop habits and systems to simplify our approach to the day. A solid workflow allows us to enjoy our own ideas, rather than be intimidated by a fear that we have no place to put them. Gradually, we find and create the means for clear focus.
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Writings
Kourosh Dini is the author of Creating Flow with OmniFocus: Mastering Productivity. As he is known to do many things, Kourosh has needed a tool and method by which he could wrangle it all. The book describes this process of wrangling in hopes that others will find such wranglings useful, too.
He has written Workflow Mastery: Building from the Basics which combines his thoughts on psychoanalysis, creativity, efficiency, and most importantly what it takes to develop mastery and meaningful work. The first edition, Workflow: Beyond Productivity, has won an eLit bronze medal in educational ebooks and a Quality, Excellence, Design Award.
He is also the author of Video Game Play and Addiction: A Guide for Parents, which helps parents navigate the benefits and potential detriments of video games and virtual spaces. The book has won a Mom’s Choice Award and a National Parenting Publication Award.
Education
Academics include Northwestern University as a part of the Integrated Science Program with a focus in the neurosciences. His medical degree and residency in adult psychiatry were obtained through the University of Illinois at Chicago. He pursued further studies in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Chicago. Kourosh also practices psychoanalysis having graduated from the Institute for Psychoanalysis, and maintains a private practice in Chicago involving therapy, meditation, and medication management.
Music
He has also played the piano since an early age, plays a synthesizer, pretends to play guitar, and whistles, usually in a garage or some other place with good resonance. He performs music weekly and has periodically spoken about meditation as Kourosh Eusebio in the virtual world of Second Life.
His blog, Musings on Mind, Music, and Technology, reflects his thoughts of this unique intersection as he continues a path of discovering mind and artistry through these media.
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评分最近空闲的时间,炉石都少了_(:з」∠)_(Top 0.25%几套打来打去)。捡起来10年前买itouch时注册的美国区Apple ID,研究Omnifocus2,Mac和IOS都装了(价格贵的真的有犹豫)。据说是最牛逼的GTD,还在研究内在逻辑中。
评分最近空闲的时间,炉石都少了_(:з」∠)_(Top 0.25%几套打来打去)。捡起来10年前买itouch时注册的美国区Apple ID,研究Omnifocus2,Mac和IOS都装了(价格贵的真的有犹豫)。据说是最牛逼的GTD,还在研究内在逻辑中。
评分最近空闲的时间,炉石都少了_(:з」∠)_(Top 0.25%几套打来打去)。捡起来10年前买itouch时注册的美国区Apple ID,研究Omnifocus2,Mac和IOS都装了(价格贵的真的有犹豫)。据说是最牛逼的GTD,还在研究内在逻辑中。
评分最近空闲的时间,炉石都少了_(:з」∠)_(Top 0.25%几套打来打去)。捡起来10年前买itouch时注册的美国区Apple ID,研究Omnifocus2,Mac和IOS都装了(价格贵的真的有犹豫)。据说是最牛逼的GTD,还在研究内在逻辑中。
评分最近空闲的时间,炉石都少了_(:з」∠)_(Top 0.25%几套打来打去)。捡起来10年前买itouch时注册的美国区Apple ID,研究Omnifocus2,Mac和IOS都装了(价格贵的真的有犹豫)。据说是最牛逼的GTD,还在研究内在逻辑中。
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