The first is to use the paper and pencil icon (in the upper left of the screen in Landscape view or revealed with the OmniFocus button in the upper left of the Portrait view). There are two easy ways to create new tasks. Landscape will save you a few taps by having the menus readily available, embedded on the left side of the screen, similar to Mail, Twitteriffic, or other common iPad app landscape layouts. It works well in either portrait or landscape mode. Once this required reading is out of the way, OmniFocus becomes a very slick looking app. It's worth the time to learn how it all works. Just diving into OmniFocus without reading the helpful tasks will feel overwhelming. OmniFocus is more than just a simple task list manager. Start off using OmniFocus by reading all the training tasks that come preinstalled - it will be a necessity. This philosophy takes productivity to completely new levels. You can later manage those tasks, organizing them into projects and contexts. And as a result, OmniFocus is designed for you to easily pour your tasks into an inbox and get them off your mind. OmniFocus is designed around the GTD, or Getting Things Done, philosophy. How well does this app hold up to those less sophisticated yet oddly convenient methods? This app takes those sticky notes and wadded up papers in your pocket, and puts them in one big app for the iPad.
Sometimes you find you just need an app to keep all those task lists straight.