I find Omni Focus a very helpful tool particularly with respect to configuration in my productivity management system

But I wonder why you prefer something like Trello over Omni Focus particularly given you broadly support David Allen's getting things done philosophy on which

Omni Focus is based. I'm Cal Newport and this is a deep questions habit tune-up mini episode. The format of these mini episodes is straightforward. I take voice questions from my

listeners about how to tune up their productivity habits in this period in which our professional lives are, of course, increasingly disruptive.

Now before we dive into your questions, let's briefly pick up the thread that I have been polling at the beginning of recent episodes

which has been my discussion of household productivity. So if you're just joining this discussion now, if you have not been listening recently,

I was noting that there's not enough productivity thinking that goes into the details of how you keep track of,

how you organize, how you execute the diverse, myriad, and often unexpected obligations

required to run a household, to raise a family, to take care of

cars and your own health, the stuff that you have to do outside of work.

In the workplace we have all sorts of sophisticated systems, the type of stuff that productivity geeks like me talk about.

Outside the workplace there's just as much stuff, but we don't take it as seriously,

and I think this is a problem, and I think it creates a serious amount of

anxiety that is avoidable or a stress that is avoidable. So I've been playing around

recently borrowing ideas from different things I've been seeing, suggestions that

you've been sending in

in my own experimentation, to see if we can't cobble together here on the fly in these deep questions

episodes, a, let's call it tentative household productivity system.

Sort of a getting household things done.

G.T.H.D. or something like this.

It'll be G.H. Getting household. HD or something like this.

It'll be G.H. getting household things done. G.H. T.D.

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