I’m terrible at organizing myself, and I constantly get stressed out when I remember shit that has to be done.

I may have found the answer however, Omnifocus is a new app, so new it hasn’t even been written yet! It’s a complete life organizer, it looks just like a task list type affair but it’s much more thorough.

Omni were inspired to create the app by David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” self-improvement book (and boy do I need some improving). I’m not even half way through the book yet but I already know it’s going to be incredibly helpful. It’s all about getting every single god damn nagging thing, big or small off your mind and organized, and it’s promised that you’ll feel a huge relief.

Also, you don’t just list things skirting on them like you’d usually do, not just “Complete financial document”, but all the steps involved that you can think of and categorize them. You also specify what conditions must be met before you do it, whether you can do it straight away, how long you will need, if you need to be in a specific place…

Omni seem to have big ideas for omnifocus, there’s going to be a web server/interface, even with an iPhone optimised version. And it will add time based tasks to calendar and the like.

Oooh, I feel optimistic.

UPDATE:

Crazy, just days after I wrote this Omni have announced 1.0.  So if you haven’t already bought it you’ve missed out on the half price beta offer.  oops.