My Digital Move

In my last post, I briefly discussed moving (or at least removing) the last of my physical belongings from my office at Whitman. In this post, I dig into my OmniFocus task completion log to consider everything that went into moving my digital belongings. For context, I lose access to my Whitman accounts six months after my formal resignation, at the end of January 2027. Project and task management Decades ago, a grad school classmate introduced me to Getting Things Done by David Allen. By now, I’ve used OmniFocus for well over a decade; I think I adopted it when I was at Grinnell College and discovered my Hipster PDA was not up to the job of managing a faculty workload. (Specifically meetings: the third time I double-booked myself, I got an iPhone.) Although I haven’t always kept up with my weekly reviews, OmniFocus has always been there for me to dump action items into and know they won’t be completely forgotten. I’ve noticed I tend to use OmniFocus more diligently when I have…

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