![]() ![]() It's for the stage manager's homework assignments, if you will. A normal person could probably get away with calling that "home," but in my contexts, "Home" refers to that apartment in New York that I never see, and is usually marked as "On Hold." Overnight could be on a bus, in a hotel, or in company-provided housing. "Overnight" is how I describe things I do (usually related to work) when I'm not at the theatre. "At Theatre" is pretty much what it says - things I can accomplish at the theatre (wherever that theatre may be), which can also mean talking to people that I know I will see there. Amazon, Duane Reade (which currently means CVS here is Massachusetts), and the Burlington Mall and environs (such as Trader Joe's) in Burlington, MA. The shopping one is pretty obvious - for all my shopping lists - and also has sub-contexts for places where I often accrue a lot of things I might want to buy all at once. In general I keep the day's report open on my computer, so it's just as easy to type them in directly, but sometimes I get a long list of notes from the director, or am otherwise rushed and don't have time to think about where and how they will be mentioned in the report, so I type a few words in OmniFocus and can later make sure I've cleared out that project when I'm finishing the report. The Report list is things that have to go into the rehearsal / performance report. That way, the next time we have a meeting, I have everything I need to cover in one list, and no extraneous tasks confusing me. Prod Mtg is for things I need answered that can only be dealt with at a production meeting. This is how I weed out groups of tasks that need to be dealt with in a specific manner (I suppose I could also use a context for that, but I prefer staying in project view most of the time, and also I don't want these tasks showing up in my Rehearsal project). For instance in the Tech project I have a reminder to record a sound cue that we can only do once we get to tech. As we are currently in rehearsal, that's the main place where my tasks go, but the Tech, Run, and Leaving projects are there and marked "on hold" so that I can jot down anything I think of that I'll need to do later in the process, but they won't show up as available tasks until I get there. I've tried a couple ideas, but the method I'm using looks like this:įor my summer season at the Reagle Players, I have created a folder for the whole job, and divided the projects into different phases of production (there were "packing" and "preproduction" projects that are now gone). ![]() Obviously a single project is a little limiting for organizing anything as big as stage managing a show - unless of course it's a reading or something. I take my backup drive everywhere with my computer, so plugging it in for a few minutes doesn't really inconvenience me, and I can usually get around to backing up within a few hours of the event becoming "due soon." Show-Related Tasks and Projects Should I be so busy that I can't, after two more days it will become overdue and that's when I know I really need to take the time to do it. The result is that when I complete the task, it's unavailable for about a day and a half (giving me time to need a backup, and then it appears in my regular tasks for about 12 hours, before switching over to being "due soon." Once I see it highlighted in orange, now it's kind of in my face all day, so that's really my cue to back up. Because I have OmniFocus set to mark everything due within two days as "due soon," a standard repeating task with a due date doesn't cut it - as soon as I check it off, it reappears as "due soon." So the workaround I've come up with is to create a task with a start date that's about two and a half days before the due date, and set the task to repeat every four days. I back up my Mac using Time Machine, and like to make sure I do so every two days. OmniFocus tips and tricks Quick Links Regular computer backup reminder ![]()
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